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💙📚 ReligionNerd; Libraries How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks ~Sayers 🏳️🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️⚧️. End the warcrimes. Open borders. End Prisons. Eat the Rich.
An ableist who (nominally) agrees with you can be worse than the opposition. Here is everyone's favorite outrage bait opinion author showing why so much surface-level agreement is worthless. not even worth holding your nose for
Susan Meschel's "The use of the metal lead in the Bible" (2016) most promising lead I have seen... but she is citing work from the 30s for her claims about mines. librarysearch.williams.edu/permalink/01...
I am not sure excitement is the mood I've got for you. REPENTANCE is the only direction that currently has my attention? Degrowth?
Today: Harvested garlic, redirected pumpkin plant branching, redirected strawberry runners, harvested chard, collards, kale, dill, mustard greens... didnt harvest abundant lettuce because no one at home to eat it.
June: The students depart and other guests come to the library's un-mowed meadows...
Finished To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Nampeshiweisit #1 by Moniquill Blackgoose yesterday... I will be recommending this to my child before/instead of Pern or Joust.
I am happy to be raising children that want to celebrate meeting their reading goals and the end of the school year with a AYCE sushi feast. This is the way. (Also $$$$, my poor budget.)
Always fun to see the works of former conference colleagues come through as I process acquisitions... Yay! Peng Yin's (Boston U) Persisting in the Good is HERE. :)
Ugh... I wish I had time for a deep dive on this 17th-century engraving depicting "in its true size" the so-called Sixth Wound of Christ. TBR: "To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics" by Valerie Allen read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...
Okay my #bookhistory nerds,.... At what point do we start calling Amulets made with engravings proto-"artists books" www.kibbeyrarebooks.com/product-page...
Sometimes I lie awake, night after night Coming apart at the seams,...
Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle is a cis-het romance featuring Asian leads and dealing with perfectionism, body shame, masking, burnout, and family expectations. So yes, I cried.
I made the dinner. Spinach, cheese, tomato, mushroom,…. And on the adult side: blue cheese.
Oh. I am going to enjoy this book, I can tell…. Resembles to Arkady Martine and Guy Gavriel Kaye…
Pope Pius X is still with us. "Were one to attempt the task of collecting together all the errors that have been broached against the faith and to concentrate the sap and substance of them all into one, he could not better succeed than the Modernists have done."
OOooooo.... this also looks good. TBR pile it is! Apparently I am feeling very optimistic about my reading capacity today. It helps when half of the TBR is digital! #library #philosophyofpersonhood #legalpersonhood #missingpersons
Time to read something a little more thought provoking. Hey @deandettloff.bsky.social got a blurb from Marika Rose, nioce.
I planted out tomatoes today, last weekend we remulched the paths with wood chips… a bunch of kale, collards, lettuces, and chard is growing… beans, peas, and squashes still slow. Pumpkin plants (from saved seeds) have come up.