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Reading widely & doing handwork in NOLA
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I will read it. Recently Maria Ressa’s, How to Stand up to a Dictator, published in 2022. She is a journalist in the Philippines who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2021.
The news that T is taking over the US Postal service…
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Just read Maria Ressa’s 2022 book, How to Stand Up To a Dictator. Her lived experience as a journalist in the Philippines.
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New Orleans had a pretty good sized group, too. ✊🏻💙
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I hope you can find a way to fight it. It is terribly sad to me, a stranger who lives no where near you. Others should do the same. My son in law is at NASA so he may have a story to share in the coming month. I am sorry.
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I thought fraud was the focus - why is it I’m only hearing about layoffs for all these federal workers? Sad.
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Thank you. Let’s me know what groups are actively fighting.
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I love seeing a work in progress. So interesting!
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Avoiding news is one thing, but this is something I think every American should read.
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And snow shoveling with garden shovels..
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I grew up in a conservative, homogenous environment but my mom who was from New York encouraged us to read. My ingrained reading habit is probably why I am so comfortable with and enjoy knowing about so many different ways to live life.
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beautiful
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Wrong attitude. Never obey in advance.
Be Ukrainian
Be the French Resistance
Be Rosa Parks
Be the Underground Railroad
Be MLK jr
Be Elie Weisel
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I am versed in several different handwork skills but started knitting at age 69. Ha! I chose the continental or picking style to learn because it’s thought to be easier on your hands. Loving knitting. I knit hats - and am learning various stitches along the way.
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Sign of the times..
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Met a close friend for some blue eyes tea and she wore the headband I had knitted for her.
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We had the same style mom. Those New Yorkers…add library to my list.
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In that case I’d recommend The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell.
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I’ll raise my hand! I usually have both fiction and non fiction going and some are audiobooks.
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Thanks for posting this - I’m using it to find next reads online from my library.
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Thanks! Purchased in Santa Fe. Ellen has some too.
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Fungi binoculars
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Thanks! After the holidays I’m going to try it. I’ll start with the video you sent. Appreciate it.
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Thanks!
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How did you learn to knit cables? How hard is it? I make knitted hats and try to learn new stitches along the way. I have made a hat doing stranded knitting and others using several basic stitches thus far.
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I thought to myself that this book could well encourage young people to be come scientists. I think it would have turned me into one! Also, it sounds a note of hopefulness.
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It made me feel more hopeful for my grand daughters. It made me want to be a mycologist in my next life. Haha. I was midway through when at a restaurant my daughter ordered fried oyster mushroom. It was a shocker to me and it was delicious.
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I miss our Bambi. For 4 years we visited spots on the gulf coast and southern Atlantic coastline. I thought of it size-wise as our Brooklyn apartment. The size was just fine for us. Now we have a Flying Cloud as it’s to be our escape pod if we are driven out of our home for hurricane season.