Jake sent me this last night ( Read more... )

This article: [The New Humanism] is fantastic.

This song is sweet and lovely.

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It's snowy and gray and quiet, and I'm sitting crosslegged on my bed catching up on emails while listening to music, drinking coffee, and eating a big bowl of yogurt with ground flax seed, frozen raspberries and blueberries (how would I survive winter without frozen ( Read more... )

Our second snowstorm of the week is in full, fluffy, biting-wind swing. I never hit a point where the sheer simple prettiness of it doesn't melt me, but lately I'm feeling more than a little done with the cold, ice, and salty slush. March is such a tease - on again, off again with the spring. I'm ready for sunshine and a little green ( Read more... )

Apparently my useless crap filter works far better than I thought it did. We listen to bad top-40 radio at work, and despite weeks of hearing it at least five times a day, it took me until today to realize that Rihanna's latest single is about - and titled - S&M ( Read more... )

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I found this on someone's tumblr, the first clause of a piece dubiously titled "The Native American Code of Ethics". I am suspicious of anything that claims to be "The Native American" Anything, on the grounds that generalizations reinforce the White assumption that all "Native American" peoples are exactly the same, and this - even if it is being ( Read more... )

SERIOUSLY, I keep planning to start posting more regularly and, like, write about real life and stuff ( Read more... )

Registration for doula certification course: sent.

Fee: paid.

Childbirth education class: first session tonight, tagging along with preggo sister mine.

Momentum: begun.

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1) facethemoon, who is the champ of knitting baby pants, and upon whom I have a massive blog crush (...is that what you'd call it?), sent me to a most excellent pattern to knit longies for the small new bum of Maro's impending bebe - April is coming so soon! And between now and then I shall spend so much of my money buying yarn to make baby clothes ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at my kitchen table at 1:30 in the afternoon, listening to Old Crow Medicine Show, eating my post-morning-shift second breakfast, and watching light snow blow through the alley outside the window ( Read more... )