Sheila Packa
@sheilapacka.com
Writer & teacher. Poet. Loves eco-writing, libraries, rivers, wilderness, archives, and languages. Books include Surface Displacements, Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range, Cloud Birds, Echo & Lightning, & Mother Tongue. https://sheilapacka.com/
Rikhardinkadun kirjasto, the University, and Finland's National Library, beautiful spaces to visit, to read in, and to write. All favorite places.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Rikhardinkadun kirjasto, the University, and Finland's National Library, beautiful spaces to visit, to read in, and to write. All favorite places.
Come to the UpNorth LitFest In Fosston, Minnesota on September 25-26. Join these writers workshops and the great community of people who love art and literature.
August 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Come to the UpNorth LitFest In Fosston, Minnesota on September 25-26. Join these writers workshops and the great community of people who love art and literature.
The premiums will be going up (thanks to the GOP administration).
August 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The premiums will be going up (thanks to the GOP administration).
State parks in northern Minnesota are a great place for forest bathing.
July 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
State parks in northern Minnesota are a great place for forest bathing.
#NoKings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Throngs of people on the street! #50501 #Indivisible
June 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#NoKings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Throngs of people on the street! #50501 #Indivisible
Today 800+ people showed up for Practicing-Democracy.org. Join us! We are going to bring back kindness, due process, voting rights, public service, respect for law, and care for those who are vulnerable.
March 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Today 800+ people showed up for Practicing-Democracy.org. Join us! We are going to bring back kindness, due process, voting rights, public service, respect for law, and care for those who are vulnerable.
Ebooks Minnesota has a free download of the children's book, Where We Come From. It's the Minnesota Read. It's a lovely book with beautiful illustrations and every child and adult should experience this story. #Booksky mackinvia.com/dashboard?mk...
March 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ebooks Minnesota has a free download of the children's book, Where We Come From. It's the Minnesota Read. It's a lovely book with beautiful illustrations and every child and adult should experience this story. #Booksky mackinvia.com/dashboard?mk...
There is a rush on the day that the river breaks free.
March 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There is a rush on the day that the river breaks free.
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot. This book has never been more important. It's a must read and a good read. #Booksky
March 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot. This book has never been more important. It's a must read and a good read. #Booksky
A book about a creative couple, both artists. "Fair Play" is based on Tove Jansson’s relationship with the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she shared a life, and a home, for some forty years. Beautiful story. #Booksky
February 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A book about a creative couple, both artists. "Fair Play" is based on Tove Jansson’s relationship with the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she shared a life, and a home, for some forty years. Beautiful story. #Booksky
Great novel: The Unseen by Roy Jacobson. The setting is the archipelago in northern Norway. It is the perfect book to read because it takes the reader away from the chaos and disappointment of the political machinations occurring in the US. #Booksky booksfromnorway.com/books/994-th...
February 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Great novel: The Unseen by Roy Jacobson. The setting is the archipelago in northern Norway. It is the perfect book to read because it takes the reader away from the chaos and disappointment of the political machinations occurring in the US. #Booksky booksfromnorway.com/books/994-th...
Indivisible Grand Rapids, Bemidji & Duluth - 200+ people gather at the office of US Rep Pete Stauber to protest against his support of Trump/Musk's cruel and harmful attack on public servants, veterans, the National Parks, BWCA, and all other regulatory services.
February 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Indivisible Grand Rapids, Bemidji & Duluth - 200+ people gather at the office of US Rep Pete Stauber to protest against his support of Trump/Musk's cruel and harmful attack on public servants, veterans, the National Parks, BWCA, and all other regulatory services.
Saturday spent browsing the huge collection of old books at Chester Creek Books in Duluth. Fantastic!
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Saturday spent browsing the huge collection of old books at Chester Creek Books in Duluth. Fantastic!
Trump and Musk are destroying public services. Everybody, including the people who voted for them, will be hurt.
February 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump and Musk are destroying public services. Everybody, including the people who voted for them, will be hurt.
In light of the destructive path that Trump and the MAGA Republicans are making, one can't help but raise this question. Stars and Stripes Forever? (1970) Visual art by Bill Stettner (Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
February 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In light of the destructive path that Trump and the MAGA Republicans are making, one can't help but raise this question. Stars and Stripes Forever? (1970) Visual art by Bill Stettner (Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Godard the French film maker said of his work that
it was "as if I wanted to write a sociological essay in the form of a novel, and all I had to do it with was notes of music."
it was "as if I wanted to write a sociological essay in the form of a novel, and all I had to do it with was notes of music."
January 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Godard the French film maker said of his work that
it was "as if I wanted to write a sociological essay in the form of a novel, and all I had to do it with was notes of music."
it was "as if I wanted to write a sociological essay in the form of a novel, and all I had to do it with was notes of music."
Buddhist thought. Your mind has many kinds of seeds -- joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love; craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness. These seeds are always there, sleeping in the soil of your mind. The quality of your life depends on the seeds you water.
December 15, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Buddhist thought. Your mind has many kinds of seeds -- joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love; craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness. These seeds are always there, sleeping in the soil of your mind. The quality of your life depends on the seeds you water.
Great read: Your Absence is Darkness by Icelandic writer
Jón Kalman Stefánnson. Historical fiction, metafiction, & love story. #booksky
Jón Kalman Stefánnson. Historical fiction, metafiction, & love story. #booksky
November 28, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Great read: Your Absence is Darkness by Icelandic writer
Jón Kalman Stefánnson. Historical fiction, metafiction, & love story. #booksky
Jón Kalman Stefánnson. Historical fiction, metafiction, & love story. #booksky
