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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2025-02-02 at 22:56

[#]#SundaySentence and #TodaysPoem are from Luke Wallace's song, Comeback:

I hear the future goes something like this

Sound of the singers coming through crisp

Steady ourselves climb back to the bliss

And welcome anything that walks through that mist

And so I insist that we go there together

Start from the bottom build something much better

Whatever the weather, it’s right on time

Cause’ the moments arrived nah nah

https://lukewallace.bandcamp.com/track/comeback

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2025-01-23 at 16:24

In a webinar hearing AWS rep talk about their role in democratizing access to knowledge on the same day that news breaks about Amazon's union busting activity in Canada.

I'm having some cognitive dissonance.

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2025-01-18 at 17:26

For sale / not for sale is an intolerable framing of territorial aggression in capitalist terms, implying that there can be a sale price.

It's disgusting language.

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-12-29 at 16:26

"We are foolish to think that our liberty only ever belongs to us."

[#]SundaySentence is from Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/cd0eee73-1472-469a-82de-0810ab81cd76

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-12-26 at 06:33

In recent times, I've reduced the voluntary work I put into #Wikipedia because I have a lot to do, and also because it is wearing to see content related to equity and representation repeatedly vandalized or tediously litigated by editors with regressive views. I guess now I may reconsider.

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-12-19 at 20:44

"You wouldn't think the inanimate would get tired

but it does. The ironing board doesn't even sigh

before it collapses and I'm left like Wile E. Coyote,

treading air, the iron aloft in my hand"

[#]TodaysPoem is from Talking to Strangers by Rhea Tregebov

[#]amReading #whileWrapping

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c4c16594-1ec6-4190-ac79-ca99d66d8aa4

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-11-24 at 16:13

"Eating this honey requires everything of you."

[#]SundaySentence is from The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar

-- with thanks to @friesen5000 for putting me in the way of this marvelous book!

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-11-21 at 21:30

It's survey season, and here's my cut and paste response to "how would you like to receive updates about our work?"

...Unfortunately I don't find an account for [your open infrastructure project] in the Fediverse / Mastodon, which is where the social media engagement would have to show up for me to see it ...

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-11-10 at 16:21

"I examine the irony inherent in apologizing for past transgressions while perpetuating very similar new ones"

[#]SundaySentence is from

Anna J. Willow; Destruction and Disjuncture: Ironies of Apology, Exhibition, and Ethnography along British Columbia’s Dammed Peace River. Ethnohistory 1 January 2020; 67 (1): 49–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7888707

Or

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338848655_Destruction_and_Disjuncture_Ironies_of_Apology_Exhibition_and_Ethnography_along_British_Columbia's_Dammed_Peace_River

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-11-06 at 14:19

Hope And Relief For A Difficult Morning

by Emm Gryner

"A warm meditation for those of us struggling with emotionally difficult mornings. Music, written by the narrator, is paired with affirmations to lift your spirit from a dark place so that you may take on the day with some strength and hope."

https://insighttimer.com/emmgryner/guided-meditations/hope-and-relief-for-a-difficult-morning

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-11-03 at 16:19

Peace Train Petition

The Peace Train will be traveling from Vancouver to Ottawa from November 15-20 and then meeting with lawmakers there from Nov 20-23 to encourage them to create a Centre of Excellence for Peace and Justice.

The train, itself, is now fully booked. However, if you'd still like to support this initiative, please sign the Peace Train petition to the House of Commons in Parliament

https://www.canadianmemorial.org/peace-train

[#]vancouverisland

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-09-29 at 16:03

[#]SundaySentence is from The Garden of Eden by Tove Jansson in Travelling Light

"I need to remember -- there's not as much difference as people think between the young and the old."

[#]amReading @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a04ad48-fd50-4e0e-a822-966b719cc8ca

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-09-27 at 20:26

Remember when you could just check backlinks using link: in Google, and you could know without a lot of SEO hoo ha what got broken when some page disappeared?

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-09-25 at 00:21

in heaven your IP addresses never change

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-09-11 at 15:14

In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott led me to Terry Tempest Williams.

This morning, I opened Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and found this.

[#]amReading #TodaysPoem

@bookstodon

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-09-10 at 23:17

@info @chris

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-09-01 at 16:49

"What possible impact can I make now, here at the precipice, standing at the edge of the cliff and holding up my hands to stop the avalanche bearing down on me from above?"

[#]SundaySentence is from "Beauty Tips for the End of the World" in Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife by Christina Myers

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4542ef54-7d8d-40bc-886c-4db126c00cd9

[#]amReading

@bookstodon

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-08-24 at 15:41

On this weekend, which includes errands before Labour Day for a lot of people, I'll offer that I came down with covid in late July, and I do still feel it.

This is having had a latest shot in May, and with what more than passes for regular shots and mask-wearing where I live.

I'd like to suggest care for self and others as part of back to school and work prep, including checking whether shots are up to date, and having supplies to manage illness and prevent further spread.

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-08-18 at 15:20

"We must understand each other in order to change the world."

[#]SundaySentence is from In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/I/In-My-Own-Moccasins

@bookstodon

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Written by Dana McFarland 🍁 on 2024-08-16 at 22:01

I feel that too, tree

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