It Takes a Village
Year: 2018
Editors' Choice
VNV Tuesday: Lessons in Sausage-Making (h/t @JoyAnnReid) 1/23/18
Last week was a writing drought; today I have too many topics to choose from. My final decision was made when I saw a tweet thread from Joy Reid*** that resonated with me, exposed my […]
Featured Posts
Sharing a Salmon Lunch with a Bald Eagle
Along the salmon spawning creeks and rivers of the west coast, winter is spawning time for salmon and gorging time for eagles. And it is great for us as well to watch them play out their age […]
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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Jan. 21st through Jan. 27th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
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Fighting Back: “Republicans’ total inability to govern is harming our country.”
The weekly Fighting Back post is also an Open News Thread. The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. (“This weekend marks the anniversary of President Trump’s first year […]
It Takes a Village
Blackness
VNV Tuesday – Speaking His Truth: James Baldwin 1/16/18
In a moment of semi-panic because I had no clue what I was going to write, I turned on the television in the hopes distraction would mitigate the writing block and lead to clear thinking. […]
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: “We shall always march ahead, we cannot turn back”
The day set aside to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is a good day to reflect on the power of resistance, the power of peaceful demonstration, the power of We The People insisting that […]
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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Jan. 14th through Jan. 20th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
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Fighting Back: “You deserve A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, and a Better Future”
The weekly Fighting Back post is also an Open News Thread. The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congresswoman Terri Sewell of Alabama. (For Congresswoman Terri Sewell, the Republican Tax Scam is a stark […]