Spokane sunset.

Spokane is glorious in spring.

YouTube video by Arbor Video 10,000 Maniacs with Michael Stipe - To Sir With Love

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2. To Sir With Love - 10,000 Maniacs with Michael Stipe (1993)

(Original version done by Lulu in 1967.)

"Perhaps the mission of the university is to train social poets, men and women who, upon learning the grammar and vocabulary of humanity, have a spark, a brilliance that allows them to imagine the unknown.” —Pope Francis

North Idaho College gets extension, sanction reduced to probation North Idaho College is “positioned to remedy” a handful of remaining accreditation issues within the next year, according to a Monday letter from NIC’s accreditor.

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"Each of us must find our work and do it." - Audre Lorde. What's yours? Let's shape the future together. #AudreLorde #activism #community

If you value the role your local community college plays in helping students from all backgrounds change their lives, and you know how important federal financial aid is to the students who go there, please contact your reps and tell them to oppose the plan to abolish the U.S. Dept. of Education.

If you are someone or know someone who relies on federal grants or work study programs to pay for their post-high school career-technical program or college pathway, contact your reps and tell them you oppose the plan to abolish the U.S. Department of Education.

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If you care about school lunch programs, access to free K-12 public education for all kids, kids with IEPs continuing to get the accommodations and support they need to succeed…Please contact your representatives and tell them you oppose the abolishment of the Department of Education.

"...We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare."
—Yeats
P.S. The "stare" is a relative of our starling.

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Medicaid pays for 41% of the births in the United States.

Leonard Cohen’s Come Healing is a pretty great Advent song.

Advent begins. Hoping and waiting and working for light in the encroaching darkness.

Advent begins.

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you…
we are standing by the water thanking it…
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is

—WS Merwin, “Thanks”

Hello, BlueSky. What a refreshing place to be.

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We were Twitter mutuals. Good to see you here.