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This Little Light of Mine
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.…
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Imagine
That’s what I’ve got tonight. John Lennon already said everything I want to say, and he did it in under 4 minutes. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg] (My son asked why my daughter was in this video. Apparently she and I look like John Lennon. It is not the first time this observation has been made.)
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Roadtrip Metaphor (Remixed)
I am not home. Fortunately, I am holed up in a motel in Aberdeen, Cape Breton. There is a motivational poster above my head that says, “Destiny.” I don’t quite know how to interpret that. I was caught by a storm. It’s not that I didn’t know a storm was coming; it’s that it wasn’t…
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Road Tripping
I am 2/3 of the way through the three-day trip from Toronto to Albert Bridge. I can’t say that I’m enthusiastic about getting back into the car. I do love these long drives. If only my SI joint agreed, my ability to perform the solo road trip would be supreme. I could do this for…
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Trebuchet!
The last PD day that it was sunny, we took advantage of the situation to assemble and fire one of the miniature trebuchets that we received for Christmas. We are the type of family that received two trebuchets from different sources. We had a great time firing it, so we recorded our fun and games…
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Putting my Education Where My Mouth Is
Also called, Getting my Grade 6 project on. Wednesday: I am working on a post about my own privilege and the challenges of not simply accepting my good fortune, but calling it for what it is, when my son stands in front of me with a homework assignment in his hand, on the verge of…
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Two Sides of One Hallway
The picture I took because I didn’t think you would believe me:
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Observations on an Urban Campus
30,000 people live, work, and study here. It is a university. If you were to walk into the soaring atrium of the central campus building, and were to stand for a moment, and really notice where you were, you would know that you had entered a temple. In ancient days such an edifice would be…
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Who Wants to be a Billionaire?
I’ve had this song stuck in my head since I went dancing last weekend: (Contains the word “fuck” a couple of times. Visuals completely acceptable in public.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw] I started off thinking, “But, I don’t want to be a billionaire.” Now that I’ve read the lyrics, and watched the video, I’m smitten. Love the song,…
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Urban Homesteading, Rural Interneting
… I’m afraid that the subtitle is, “Why we have no soap movie today.” Today, people are peppering the blogosphere with posts about their Urban Homesteading projects. I spent a significant portion of the morning making a movie about making soap, but each 1 minute segment takes about 20 minutes to upload, and I am…
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Stoking the Unknown Wants
My internet is slow: It also has 14% packet loss, for those what care about such things, so it is slow, and it stutters. I didn’t know that my internet was slow until the recent foofaraw over internet caps in Canada. But now that I know that my internet is slow, I kind of want…
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Finding the Holy Grail
Before Holy Grail, Fix Cars, Ferry Children. After Holy Grail, Fix Cars, Ferry Children This week we finally got to a point that we’ve been working towards for the last twenty years: my husband got tenure. I think that this is an occasion that should include a ceremony involving funny hats, because lacking such ceremony,…