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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 – March for Our Lives Detroit: “Am I Next?” 3/27/18

March 27, 2018 DoReMI 9

I’m not quite ready to move on to the “what’s next” part of this movement, so I hope you’ll indulge one more diary about Saturday’s March for Our Lives. Alonso del Arte did a post […]

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VNV Tuesday – When the Children March 3/20/18

March 20, 2018 DoReMI 15

In the spring of 1963, the leadership of the SCLC and SNCC were determined to move on Birmingham, AL, viewed as the most dangerous city in Alabama (in part because it was the power base […]

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HNV Thursday – Trailblazers: Women’s Political Council of Montgomery 3/15/18

March 15, 2018 DoReMI 7

There are trailblazers and torchbearers. The trailblazer is the pioneer; the torchbearer follows and amplifies the path of the trailblazer. (There is no judgment implied in these designations, and one can be a trailblazer at […]

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Downsizing and Moving: Dreams vs Reality 3/13/18

March 13, 2018 DoReMI 6

There’s not going to be a political post today for the Village; I once again swapped my day with janesaunt at DK, so Thursday will be my Village political post both here and at the […]

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HNV Tuesday – To Those Who Overturn Tables 3/6/18

March 6, 2018 DoReMI 9

I was raised in the Christian, United Methodist tradition, and it’s a tradition I still [mostly] embrace. I don’t proselytize, but sometimes there is a universality to a message one hears in church, and yesterday […]

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HNV Tuesday – Random Acts of Truth-Telling (or Not) 2/27/18

February 27, 2018 DoReMI 11

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HNV Tuesday – Speaking Her Truth: Diane Nash (1938- )

February 20, 2018 DoReMI 5

Years later though she could recall almost every physical detail of what it had been like to sit there in that course on English literature, Diane Nash could remember nothing of what Professor Robert Hayden […]

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HNV Tuesday – Fired Up; Ready to Go! ( A Musical Interlude) 2/13/18

February 13, 2018 DoReMI 5

Sometimes a tweet is all you need to help you decide what to write. This tweet from Denise did it for me: Lift Every Voice and Sing was first performed on Feb. 12, 1900 https://t.co/RXbwrh4hlZ […]

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VNV Thursday Bonus Edition – Speaking Her Truth: Septima Clark (1898-1987) 2/8/18

February 8, 2018 DoReMI 10

Like many white folk, my knowledge of the icons of the civil rights movement is limited at best and thoroughly deficient at worst. When I read that Dr. King had once described Septima Clark as […]

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VNV Tuesday – A Self-Care Reminder 2/6/18

February 6, 2018 DoReMI 26

I love winter, but in my neck of the woods, the enjoyment comes at a price. For every peaceful snowfall, there are sidewalks to be shoveled; for each moment of ice-covered marvel, there is the […]

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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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March 20, 2026 3
Today, March 20th, at 7:46am 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 [...]

Spring is in the air!

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February 1, 2026 2
At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]
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Welcome, Returning Light!

December 21, 2025 5
The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]
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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

September 22, 2025 3
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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“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

August 1, 2025 3
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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