Red Osier

I know everyone is excited about Murderbot but I just have to throw a shout-out to the Books of Raksura by @marthawells.com

Just finished book 1 and it was really great. Like keeping me from sleeping great.

This whole thread….

That was awesome and nourishing. Thanks!

The hush of winter lingers but

Candle flames flicker like the first whispers of spring, banishing winter’s hush.

Milk, white, rich, and sacred, flows in tribute to life stirring beneath the frost.

Birch, the tree of beginnings, stands watch at the threshold of change.

#scottishfolkmagic

I love this idea! I wonder also about maybe moving away from the idea of ‘consumer’ to ‘participant’… I think of the energy exchange present in live performance…

That’s a helpful reframing. Thank you!

I’m still figuring out how to do this stuff. daanis did a full thread worth checking out….

I had to go back and doublecheck I hadn’t already shared the article, before resharing this with daanis’ thoughts included….

Now, more than ever. Re-enchantment Is Resistance.

When I joined bluesky, one of the first accounts I went looking for, hoping to find their presence here, was this one.

Their writing and thinking always pushes me out of my comfort zone in the best possible way.

I have been digging deep into inhabiting and being inhabited by the ever unfolding now.

Would my fellow students try and defend us? So many obviously didn’t feel we should be there… would they just quietly acquiesce? Or would they try and interpose or help us flee?

35 years on, a generation, has much changed?

These were women only a couple years older than myself. Contemporaries.

I attended an electrical engineering program starting only five years after this happened, about 6 women in a class of nearly 200, and I remember wondering how it would play out if it happened again in one of my lectures?

A stone monument in Minto Park, Ottawa covered with snow. Designed by cj fleury it is called ‘Enclave: The Ottawa Women’s Monument’. From wikipedia: The central piece of the monument is a 2-metre-long (6.6 ft) uncut upright granite stone. On its rough surface is a smooth indented double-pointed oval, or yoni, containing engravings. The main engraving consists of the same text in English and French. In English it reads: ‘To honour and to grieve all women abused and murdered by men envision a world without violence where women are respected and free’ Illustrations of a three-swirl symbol (or triskele), the phases of the moon, waves, and female figures also appear on the stone's face. Surrounding this central stone are 37 smaller stones, placed in an open spiral, each engraved with the name of a woman killed by an act of violence perpetrated by a man.

#December6, 1989

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

#NationalDayOfRemembrance

Me too… and yes, those maps!

Beautiful list of local independent bookstores (and maps!)….

Remember that even if they don’t have the book you want on the shelf, they can order it in for you.

We vote every day for the kind of world we want to live in by the way we spend our money.

#blackfriday