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Month: November 2022
Bloom Alone
Still Recovering
I am still recovering from my recent trip to Boston but I will write soon to tell you all about it. Upon my return to Seattle I immediately was committed to participating in a 2 day craft fair. The fair was a great success. More news to follow.
Not yarns for the craft fair but……..I was selling my multicolored knitted scarves.
The Quacks Attack (Each Other)
Amazing!
In amazing abuse of America’s nonprofit laws, there’s a “charity” called “America’s Frontline Doctors” that consists of quacks, a small number of physicians and health care workers who are represent the very worst in American medicine. They spread false information about COVID,advocate for dangerous and discredited treatments, engage in fearmongering about vaccines, and attemptto influence state legislation on health care. Idaho’s Ryan Cole, an appalling disgrace to the medical profession, is a prominent member of AFLDS.
One of AFLDS founders and its former president is Dr. Simone Gold. She’s just out of prison, serving a 60 days sentence after copping a plea to participating in the failed January 6 coup.1 While she was in prison, her fellow quacks had a chance to look at the…
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Revisiting Earthsea
Earthsea is the world invented by the late Ursula K. LeGuin. Across five decades, five novels and a volume of short stories and essays, she created one of the most memorable, self-consistent and vivid imaginary universes in literature. LeGuin, in her lifetime, earned eightHugos, sixNebulas, and twenty-twoLocus Awards, and in 2003 became the second woman honored as aGrand Masterof theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
The Earthsea stories themselves have won an astonishing number of awards:
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Life in Alaska – To Cedric Guion, Scavenger – A TO DO LIST from Rusty Heurlin – April 20, 1944
The following is a letter from Rusty, (Magnus Colcord Heurlin) a very good friend of the family and who would become a very well known Alaskan Artist. He has left Anchorage and is traveling with Major Marston, in charge of Security for Alaska, and Governor Greuning, who wants to meet the various natives he is governing. Rusty is along to sketch and will use much of this material in future paintings of Alaskan life.
Nome, Alaska
April 20, 1944
Cedric Guion
Scavenger
Anchorage, Alaska
Dear Ced,
Spent the afternoon out at airbase here going over air manifests but could find no entrance reports on any 4 pieces shipped from Anchorage. A Lieut. Ladrak suggested I write you to check what plane the stuff went on – see if it was Troop Carrier 3541, a C 47 plane which left Anchorage on the 7th of March. He thinks the bag…
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NATURE’S GARDEN
I want to share the joy of nature’s garden out in the country, not far from where I live.
Nit-picking
The oldest complete written sentence has been identified. It’s written in the Canaanite language, about 1,700 years ago. There are earlier writings, but they are simply names or sometimes the owner of the object.
This artifact was found at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. The artifact measures just 3.5 by 2.5 centimeters (roughly 1.38 by 1 inches). The artifact was excavated in 2016, but it wasn’t until more recently that the inscription was discovered. The inscription reads,
As the numbers show, lettering is right to left. When that ancient engraver reached the right edge, he rotated the artifact 180 degrees and continued. The engraver ran out of room again (“Plan ahead,” anyone?) and had to engrave the 17th character below the 16th.
The translation? Translated, the…
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Calling Out the Stupid
At times the sheer, perverse, pig-headed stupidity of Americans threatens to overwhelm WC. It’s self-destructive, appalling and likely to be fatal soon if we cannot find a way to overcome it.
You think WC is exaggerating? You think this claim is hyperbolic? WC offers three examples – there could as easily be dozens – to demonstrate the point.
Corpus Christi Bay’s Unnecessary Water Crisis
Corpus Christi Bay and the city of the same name are about half way between Houston and the Mexican border. It has a decent industrial base, but aspires to be a second Houston. In 2017, ExxonMobil approached city officials, seeking a large portion of the City’s water supply so the oil giant could build a $10 billion plant to make plastics out of methane gas. The City, because Jobs!, enthusiastically signed over a large portion of the City’s water supply. A year later, the City did
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Weaving in Bhutan
Weaving in Bhutan on my Glimakra loom
What a charmed life experience – to live in the Mountain Kingdom of Bhutan for 2 years in the 1980’s. I had my loom set up in a sunny corner of our house.
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