Enjoy the day!: Archive

Digital Resources from the Knitting Reference... →

For you knitters in the audience - some antique coolness.

Oct 21st

Oct 18th

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What a long strange trip it has been. Thanks to my favorite man who knits I’ve reconnected to my tumblr once again!!! Time to knit a few rows in his honor

Oct 18th

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BAPC6: Sit On Your Stoop →

BAPC: Building a Professional Community In the halcyon images of “communities” as presented to us by network television, especially prior to the advent of online media, there is this folksy image…

Jan 7th

Jan 6th

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On the Eve of 50 →

I have decided to celebrate the milestone of turning 50 by creating a space where I can integrate the threads of my life into one woven tapestry. In the past, I’ve written about life, about work,…

Oct 4th

Unravelling this Blog →

Hello, faithful readers - thank you for sticking with me during the deep silence that has billowed forth from this portal in the past few months - the one or two posts I’ve done since late Spring…

Sep 17th

Trying to post photos of ezmerelda’s road trip and being defeated by technological limitations - will persist

Aug 28th

MEME 8: Use Your Library →

Let me share with you what I am learning …. All my life, I’ve loved books. I was a voracious reader. I still have many of the books I was given as a child from my Uncle Art and Auntie Mary, and I…

Mar 13th

Om Shri Ganesh-ji Om

We invoke you with offerings, Ganesha, making offerings to you as Love Invoking you with offerings, He of Plentitudes We invoke you with offerings, Ganesha, making offerings to the Sage great and wise Invoking you with offerings, He of RulersCome to us quickly and join our gathering, be among us!

Feb 27th

MEME 5: Greet People →

Let me share with you what I have been learning… The people whom I’ve seen succeed in life have always been cheerful and hopeful people who went about their business with a smile on their faces.

Jan 21st

MEME 4: Look Up When I Am Walking →

Let me share with you what I have been learning… There are two parts to this meme - two physical actions that can occur separately, or together - but that are being called into simultaneous…

Jan 16th

Meme 3: Know Your Neighbors →

Let me share with you what I am learning …. I’ve lived in small towns (one had a population of 34, and we were a family of 5). Everyone knew everyone else - sometimes too well, I’d say….

Jan 12th

MEME 2: Leaving My House →

Let me share with you what I am learning ….. In my previous post, on turning off my TV, I said the following What’s Pagan about this? Making a choice to get “OUT” - maybe even outside…

Jan 8th

To Boldly Go... where millions have gone before (I... →

A Polemic on Crass Consumer Privilege. The last paragraph has two great links that provoked this to varying degrees - so hope you enjoy the journey down the page. My Folk Festival Chair broke. It’s…

Jul 5th

5 Days in July ('cause Elvis is in the building) →

I wrote this piece last year in hopes of winning a contest (which I didn’t) but it really does capture the reasons I go to sit and bake in the sun at Birds Hill Park. I present it again to hopefully…

Jul 4th

Witch 1 Now singing in a Higher Choir →

Witch 1. That was the vanity plate on Barbara’s car. We followed that license plate for many blocks after we left Riverview the night she died. Robert, her only son, was driving her car home….

May 28th

Spring Cleaning Frenzy →

It is that most wonderful time of the year - why has no one written songs to the joys and blessings of Spring Cleaning? Ask my Taurus in Residence - she religiously (no kidding) takes a week off work…

Apr 10th

The Music of the Spheres →

Hello! No - I’m not dead - it has just been a little hectic around the OK Corrall as winter draws to a close up here in the heart of the continent. It has been unseasonably warm - then unseasonably…

Mar 14th

““I don’t want you to follow me or anyone...”

– Gmail - [Daily Bleed] aka Daily Red on Red: 2/11 A. J. MUSTE - susan.hurrell@gmail.com

Feb 11th

TT 27 - The Lecture List →

This needs a bit of explaining. At our regular book study, we got talking about who was a Big Name in our Faith Community - What if any Pagan author would “we” pay $100 to hear…

Feb 6th

Tomorrow, a new calendar page →

and the opportunity to grab hold of the dragon’s tail of cosmic consciousness and pretend that this arbitrary “change of date” day can be the beginning of a new cycle of life changing decisions if I…

Dec 31st

TT# 25 - Ikea Comes to Winnipeg. Yawn. →

Thirteen Thoughts about the New Ikea Store So - there is going to be a new Ikea store in Winnipeg by 2012/13. Buckle Up, Pilgrims. Nicholas Hirst wrote a great article in…

Dec 19th

TT #24 - Thirteen Great Blog Articles You Should... →

Thirteen Great Blog Articles You Should Read The Best Moment of Your Day - from The Simple Dollar 8 Tremendously Way Important Ways that Gratitude Can Change Your Life - from…

Dec 11th

TT#22 - 13 Good Things To Do For Yourself this... →

13 Things You Should Do For Yourself this Winter Frugal may be the new black, but a little self-indulgence never hurt anyone. Everyone should have a bit of secret decadence to draw…

Nov 14th

... We remember them .... →

Today is the most sacred day on the secular calendar - when the world in its glory and chaos hits the pause button for a few precious minutes to honor the sacrifice of so many lives over so many…

Nov 11th

The Coffee Cup Revolution: Let's Take a Stand! →

greetings on a balmy Sunday evening - for early November. My extracurricular reading these days (when not reading books to write reviews about them, or materials for work) has…

Nov 3rd

TT# 21 - My Beloved Dead (some of them) →

My Beloved Dead As the sacred year comes to a close, it is traditional to name our Beloved Dead, and honor their memory. My list is so much longer than thirteen. Here are some of…

Oct 31st

TT 21 - My Favourite Holidays →

Thirteen Things - My Favourite Holidays 1. Samhain (Hallowe’en to you lovely Mundane People) - when the darkenss is at its deepest, and the spirits of the Ancestors can draw…

Oct 24th

Artistry - but..... →

I think this is brilliant art in miniature - but … I can’t help but think of the food being wasted.

Oct 11th

Police: iPhone Left In Hot Car For Three Hours |... →

I love satire.

Oct 11th

The Lazy Environmentalist: Ecuador Referendum... →

Oct 8th

Aug 8th

Jul 4th

Fireworks: The Annual Whine About Their... →

Hope everyone enjoyed the Canada Day Fireworks - damned things should be banned. Bread and circuses, people - its all Bread and Circuses. Can’t wait until the clay banks of the Forks collapses under the weight of the huddled masses watching their Government Funded Attention Diversion - how many cars can be parked at The Forks? How many angels with oxygen masks can dance on the head of a pin...

Jul 3rd

Jun 28th

Jun 21st

How to nap - and why you need to! →

Oh yeah - if this could become part of our culture - that would be a beautiful thing. Naps are often the best part of my weekends… delicious and good for you!

Jun 20th

A Picture is Worth...Tulips in Holland :... →

With Mothers Day coming up - not to mention Wedding Season - Mamma Gaia insists that I mention the impact of the floral import/export business on her. Give green gifts! Love your Mamma!

May 7th

Nov 24th

TheStar.com | News | Firms could do more on child... →

This came and went in the whirlwind of weekly news without too much of a ripple, sadly. It raises lots of ethical questions on many levels.

Nov 20th

The Butterfly Effect and the Environment: How Tiny...

Posted: 15 Oct 2007 12:01 AM CDT This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, joining thousands of other bloggers to write about one topic for a single day. This year’s topic is the environment. The acre of land my family and I live on rests on a heavily-wooded elevation, which provides a panoramic view of a sparkling lake to the south. It’s quite a departure from...

Oct 18th