Mindela Ruby

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Basket of beautiful summer fruits and Romanesco broccoli fresh from the field.

Are you diligently working on a book or other in-depth project, like I am? Periodically I take a break--a walk with a friend, a visit to the produce store. To refresh the creative juices!
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Forty Years Later: How Live Aid Changed Charitable Giving And The World Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief. Beyond the dollars, Live Aid supercharged how benefit concerts could make a difference.

Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief. Beyond the dollars, Live Aid supercharged how benefit concerts could make a difference.

Coming Up For Air Your dark eyes are wide and serious above the mini oxygen mask. Still wearing your pink polka dot pajamas, you clutch a new stuffed bear to your chest, a gift from the paramedic who wheeled you into t...

"...the injustice of it all—whose children will face the greatest risks, whose children will get the medications they need, whose children will survive—cuts through my romanticism."

Aleta Davis writes about parenting through asthma attacks & environmental crisis in our May/June issue:

I'm writing a book about acquiring a disability & figuring out how to go forward. I just read a tiny portion to an audience for the first time--graphic, hyper-personal, eye-opening. It went well. Laughs. Gasps. Applause. Hugs afterward. Phew.
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I can relate! One time I was requesting a small change in medical equipment needed for my disability, and the supplier's representative told me in so many words I don't get to pick and choose...

To make a prairie (1779) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

The revery alone will do.
If bees are few.

—Emily Dickinson

nice font! What is it?

#standupforlibraries

What would we do without them?

excellent work

as a Californian, I'll be glad to trade sourdough bread for rule of law.

so glad to find out about this book!

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