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Richard Hendrick, a Capuchin Franciscan brother in Ireland, shared this poem on Facebook: Lockdown Yes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there is sickness. Yes there is even death. But, They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise You can hear the birds again. They say that after just a few weeks of quiet The sky is no longer thick with fumes But

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Rose the Gypsy and I put together our own annual autumn retreat this month (we did it last year too).   We had a number of activities during our week ... History of Minneapolis walking tour with food.   I learned things about the Guthrie Theater which make me dislike the new building less.  But the old building was better.  One of my favorite local beers was featured at one

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I finally went to the newly re-opened Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. It's wonderful.  I'm so glad it's open again. There's a new section up the hill next to the Walker building with some nice views. It feels like you're out of the city in some spots. My favorite new sculpture is Black Vessel for a Saint Not only because it's St. Jerome, but partly because, being he's the

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I volunteered for the Knitters' Guild at Shepherd's Harvest over Mothers' Day weekend. I kind of fell of the wagon but not too much ... I purchased $1 mini-skeins of sock yarn in colors that I am short of for the blankie because I never seem to have enough light colors or browns/beiges/yellows: I also stoped at Sun Valley Fibers to pick up colors I can use for a color work hat and mitts

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We started out the trip in Guatemala City where we stayed at a dive near the airport. We stopped at a publisher before leaving the capitol where we purchased some books for the school library. And we saw a dedication/protest in the main square downtown for the girls who died in a fire recently. We spent the most time in Quetzaltenango which is known locally as Xela (pronounced

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Librarians Without Borders was a great experience for all of us... We were greeted by the whole school on Monday. And then there was recess. The school founder is well grounded and focused. The little kids got masks with their story. And a play. And then they did a word recognition and sentence making activity with blocks. The middle group liked their

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I think I may have forgotten to mention that I am going on a service trip later this month to Guatemala with Librarians Without Borders. There's a Facebook page where you can like us and follow us.  I'm not on FB any more, but I may be pictured in upcoming posts :) I have been busy with my sub-group, working up programming for the 7th - 10th graders.  I am the designated

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My granddaughter turns 3 tomorrow (my dad's birthday). There was a party yesterday. Masks were made - they were very popular. Worn doubled up, even. It was a beautiful day, so there was some outside time. I used to have a day-care person who said if the kids weren't dirty by the end of the day they couldn't have had any fun. Lulu knows how to have fun. Opening packages

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I received the most delightful gifts today. All were wrapped in very special, personalized paper. Each had a wonderful hand-knit card. Three spectacularly thoughtful books. I don't know why I didn't take pictures at our pizza-party, which was at Punch ... but there will be more opportunities for photos this week so I will try to post kid pics this weekend.

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I went to DC to see Boy-child Saturday.  Actually, I went Friday night because they don't have the Saturday morning flight to National any more :( Of course I had to take advantage of the trip to pop into Fibre Space.  Such a fabulous store. We had lunch at Lyon Hall in Arlington.  It was yummy. Boy-child humored me and we went to the Folger Shakespeare Library

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Girl-child mentioned to me, possibly a bit accusatorially, that I haven't posted in a long time. So here's an update. I totally fell off the wagon and bought some linen yarn which I hope will become either a tank or a summer cardigan: #Resist activities continue.  I asked The Girls to design a stamp with a "pussy bites back" theme.  They came up with a great one.  For the

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Not much happening with me lately.  Just watching the news in awe ... strange times. I went to the Planned Parenthood fashion show fundraiser which was a fun outing.   The only tickets left were standing room only, so the shots aren't great but you get the feel of it: This lovely woman is the CEO of PP's mother: I did not get a photo of the condom wedding

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I helped out at the counter-demonstration yesterday ... we outnumbered the pro-lifers about 15::1.  While it's disheartening that we have to counter-protest, it's balanced out by the fact that huge numbers of people are ready to take action.  I do enjoy seeing democracy in action.   Note to self:  check out your signs to consider what the message may be if only part of it is

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Tomorrow we will see the presidency transfer from a black man to an orange man. While I don't feel the need to learn to be happy, I do feel the need to be mindful.  It won't be the end of the world.  We will survive it, and our democracy will survive. Or so we hope. Here are a few random things about the transition.  Most of them make me smile. At least someone in Scotland

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I knit a lot of pink hats - mostly for the pussyhat project, although I threw in this one too, which I had on hand: Mostly I knit regular hats because the leftover pink yarn I had on hand was silk (Ella Rae) and alpaca (Blue Sky Melange). Which would not have worked well with the pussyhat pattern. They're all on Ravelry if you're wondering about patterns. Many were knit on the

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I came home from Tampa, spent the weekend with my people and then turned around to fly into Orlando. I tried local beers. I discovered things in my hotel room. Checking email by the pool was awfully pleasant.  The place though, was pretty weird.  We ended up calling it "the biodome." The pool was outside but everything else was under the dome. Including

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I was in Tampa for work during the week between Christmas and New Year's. I discovered the Tampa Museum of Art on the Tampa Riverwalk.  It was great.  There were two exhibits I enjoyed ... The first was on contemporary Cuban artists: There was also a section that had folk art which included a bunch of AMAZING quilts: As well as an amazing Henry Darger

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We had a pretty low-key holiday this year. There was vegetarian paella for Christmas Eve ... And there were gifts ... Some socks, some toys and some books ... Some mittens too ... In the morning I made waffles and the children watched another movie (we watched The Grinch on Christmas Eve, and Love Actually after the children went to bed). I received crayons with

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Rose the Gypsy and I went on another Nautical Knitting cruise with Melissa Leapman. Here are our fearless teachers on opening night: It was party, party, party ... so then we had to relax on the terrace to recuperate :) There were three ports of call - St Thomas, USVI was first: The food and drink on the ship was great, including but not limited to

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I am constantly looking for positive and productive activity as I continue to bounce back and forth between rage and despair. Yesterday I found the Pussyhat Project. So I dove into The Yarn Cabinet to see what kind of pink yarn I might have in stock. Score!  The Yarn Cabinet provides :) I have to work on a positive energy focus as I knit.  Perhaps something like a prayer

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After enjoying a wonderful long weekend with Rose the Gypsy I find myself cycling in and out of the stages of grief again.  Little things send me into a state of rage.  Frequently. The debacle of the election last week seems to have put me over the edge.  I understand losing; I have lost before.  But we have elected a misogynistic sociopath to the White House. Yes, I really

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We celebrated Girl-child's birthday early this year. The activity was a trip to the Weisman Art Museum at the U of MN. I really enjoyed this part of the exhibit.  Each had a recording to go with it but I didn't care much for those ;) This cracks me up.  It's a member of the Weisman family in 1970s mode.  Reminds me of when I used to work downtown in the 70s. There

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There is always interesting stuff at the Textile Center but this piece by Julie Sirek really amazed me. It's called Once Again and it is a big circle made of handcut paper and pins. Also in art, I recently went to see the quilt exhibit at the American Swedish Institute. Since I went with The Girls and The Kids we ended up in the playroom to, well, play. And rest.

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Rose the Gypsy recently returned a needle that she borrowed from me back in April. She added a couple of things to the package... Thing the first:  A sock blank from Yarnover New York (who knew?) in color "I Love Yarn" (d'ya think?).  She got it at Annie & Co.  How is it I have never been to that shop? What is particularly brilliant about the sock blank is that the

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