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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · 28d

If it goes more orange, possibly A la Mode?

If it were to settle into more of a ball form, maybe Rivers Yellow Snow?

But neither one looks quite right here. RYS has a lot more petals and A la Mode is decidedly more orange rather than yellow.

I can't place this one, but it's pretty!

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Oct 5

Now, my “Sears Christmas Catalogue” is basically the seed wholesaler catalog.

I LOVE the ritual of combing through the listings, looking up unfamiliar scientific names, and deciding if it’s worth the money to try them out in my rows.

I just wish I still had a Santa budget.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Oct 5

When I was a kid, the Sears Christmas Catalogue was a joyful ritual.

I combed through the pages, circling favorites and making notes for my list. In my ND family, Santa had a budget, and we could get whatever we wanted within that budget. It was an extra layer of fun, since I love the process!

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Oct 4

At time when I've had to avoid the news or read it as superficially as possible to stay informed but not spiral, @hcrichardson.bsky.social daily updates (in my FB feed lately) have been an absolute balm.

Clear-eyed, accurate, and sourced. It's everything I ever wanted from a news source.

Thank you

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · Aug 23

Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

I hate to just repeat the post text, but in this case it's a straight description: Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · Sep 30

This is my grandchild. Her story of her reclamation of the dance. For her great grandmother who attended Delmas residential school until the age of 13. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

MSN

www.msn.com

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daanis @daanis.ca · Sep 30

A TRC Day listicle for CBC. Enough books here to keep you going through the winter.

"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."

www.cbc.ca/books/patty-...

Patty Krawec's 'must-read' books to reflect on the Indigenous experience in North America | CBC Books

Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.

www.cbc.ca

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 30

In times like these, remember that the library helps authors, too!

And it's a public good for your community. The more you use it, the more they can offer.

I routinely request books by authors I want to support when I don't find them in the stacks.

Getting Paid: How Do Authors Make Money from Library Books? - Public Libraries Online

Much has been said about the battle between publishers and libraries. Libraries objected to high prices, especially for e-books, and publishers moaned about decreasing profits. Discussions center arou...

publiclibrariesonline.org

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 30

Thank you for the recommend! Just borrowed the audiobook from the library🥰

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 30

This passage nearly broke me.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 30

That said..... If we can ever manage funding, part of the farm plan involves small cabins where people can come to recuperate and/or have a week of sheep-to-sweater crafting, or flower arranging, or any sub variation thereof. I even plan to grow dye plants as well as flax and cotton in small lots.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 30

Ugh. This one hit me too hard and I didn't even know that until I read it.

I guess I should have, because I've daydreamed more than once about a hospital stay for some imaginary, non-life threatening anger minimally painful condition.

That's probably not a great sign.

a man in a suit and tie with the words you 've entered the burnout zone

Alt: a man in a suit and tie with the words you 've entered the burnout zone

media.tenor.com

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Jeff Young @jefftheyoung.bsky.social · Sep 29

On #climate action, "it's not the U.S. against the world, there are also three other countries: Yemen, Libya and Iran," Sir Andrew Steer told me.
"So, it's the company that you keep, isn't it?" www.newsweek.com/what-we-lear...

What we learned from a Climate Week full of conflicting messages

At the U.N. and Climate Week events it was often the U.S. versus the world on climate action. The evolving economics of clean energy might get the final word.

www.newsweek.com

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Sweet Daniel @dansheehan.bsky.social · Sep 28

“I am unlucky” - woe is me, let me place you a song on the world’s tiniest violin, etc

“My luck was needed elsewhere” - gives a sense of cosmic awareness, a sense of peace, what does he know that I don’t?

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Under authoritarian rule there's no such thing as activism, it's being treated as terrorism, everything you say and do, everywhere, is being recorded, correlated, scored, and turned into "targeting opportunities", every digital footprint that can be used against you, will be used against you.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

Oof. See, I do love me a good beard.

But I 100% know this guy and you’ve got him pegged.💯

The. Worst.

Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

I can’t do much to make things better, and we’re still struggling to get through every day.

But I could make this day better by making the world a little more like I want it to be, rather than what it is.

So I guess I’m just saying, please do the small things.

They add up.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

It took 15 minutes of my day, but I remember that this one thing was all I needed back when mine were impossible and small, to change the day from feeling like a failure to feeling like I wasn’t stranded on an island with the most important person alive and expected to get off it without a lifeboat.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

She told me she felt so bad taking up my time, and I thanked her for letting me hold him, and assured her she’s not alone, that parenting isn’t meant to be done in isolation like we have to these days. That it’s not just her, we all feel like this. It’s an impossible task. SHE’S NOT A FAILURE.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

And she efficiently filled up her cart and thanked me, and I just nodded her to the register and then her car, following along in her wake and murmuring to her now-contented baby.

I told her it would take her 5 minutes as long as I wrangled her little guy, but 45 minutes if she had to, so go on.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

So I did that shushing thing you learn when you have a fussy little one and let him nestle into my arms on hoods belly the way he likes it and just talked to him about the world and patted his back. I told him it doesn’t get easier, but we get used to the noise and cold and we learn to cope, mostly

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

I walked up to this struggling mom and said, “I know you don’t know me from Adam, but can I walk with you and just carry your baby while you get through your list?”

I’ve been there. I remember leaving stores in tears more than once.

And she let me.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

You know you’re making everyone else listen to your crying baby, and it’s awful, because you feel guilt for both letting your baby cry and also for being a nuisance to everyone else in a public place. There’s no good way to deal with it.

Society has made parenting well completely impossible.

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Blackbird Spring Farm @blackbirdspring.bsky.social · Sep 29

Shopping with a fussy baby isn’t just hard, it’s almost impossible.

Today, I watched a mom with a baby doing that thing where you soothe them down, get them situated in their carrier, and then get through as much of your list as you can until their crying becomes unavoidable. Rinse and Repeat.

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J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social · Sep 24

My window prisms throwing little rainbows at some prehistoric beasts on the drying shelf 💕

A herd of assorted dry but unfired clay animals (horses, aurochs) on a shelf. Some window prisms are throwing subtle rainbows on them.

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