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Now a Michigander, by way of Ohio, Illinois, Scotland, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. Gardener. Sewer. Democrat. Resister.
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VNV Tuesday – An Inside Baseball Look at the DNC, from and by the DNC

November 21, 2017 DoReMI 12

What follows is a post I started a few weeks ago, but I haven’t seen this information discussed much, if at all, so I’m going ahead with what may well be old news. Fierce

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VNV Tuesday – Offered Without Comment 11/14/17

November 14, 2017 DoReMI 27

Puerto Rico, 1900 Philadelphia North American, Rep. : The present condition of Puerto Rico would have been absolutely incredible and inconceivable to Americans of two years ago. We thought we knew our own hearts, and […]

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VNV Tuesday – Poetic Justice 11/7/17

November 7, 2017 DoReMI 10

An excerpt from the poem The Welder by Cherrie Moraga; the complete poem can be found here: The Welder …I am now coming up for air Yes, I am picking up the torch. I am […]

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VNV Tuesday: Randomly Random Randomosity

October 31, 2017 DoReMI 8

Some days a topic for a post comes easily; other days, no amount of wracking your brain helps, and you end up with a mishmash, a hodgepodge, a melange, a gallimaufry of items. Today is […]

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VNV Tuesday: Another OverVIew

October 17, 2017 DoReMI 9

Maybe because of its smaller size in area and population (106,450 per the 2010 census) or maybe because its population is 76% Black, the USVI has received even less media coverage than Puerto Rico after […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Tuesday: Puerto Rico Is Us 10/10/17

October 10, 2017 DoReMI 8

Today’s post is prompted by this tweet and the accompanying article: How colonialism and racism explain the inept US response to Hurricane Maria https://t.co/EioxarIQ5j — Vox (@voxdotcom) October 9, 2017 Too many of us were […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Tuesday: A PRimer 10/3/17

October 3, 2017 DoReMI 10

I’ve never been to Puerto Rico. Up until recently, if you asked me to find it on a map, I would have been able to find the general locale (I’ve heard it’s in a big […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Tuesday: The Explainers 9/26/17

September 26, 2017 DoReMI 6

Inspired by WYGal’s Friday post at DK which featured the Helpers, today I am going to focus on the Explainers. Unlike WYGal’s theme, this won’t be an ongoing series, but I want to focus on […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Tuesday: What Sewing and Politics Have in Common 9/19/18

September 19, 2017 DoReMI 5

 Normally, I write my posts here and then copy and paste them for the DK Village. For whatever reason, today I wrote up my DK post first, and once I was done, I realized I […]

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It Takes A Village – VNV Tuesday: Book Release Day

September 12, 2017 DoReMI 21

Today’s the day that some have been waiting for and others have been dreading; with all the differences of opinion, one thing that is certain is that very, very few have actually read The Book. […]

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]

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Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]
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Summer Sunning!

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Later today, we mark the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The [...]
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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

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