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Tuesday in Mooseville – When A Car Company Makes Planes 10/22/19

October 22, 2019 DoReMI 1

I’ve written about things related to the auto industry before, but usually from the union perspective or with a union-centric focus. Despite that, I’m not dismissive of the contributions that the companies have made to […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – More Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven’t Busted 9/24/19

September 24, 2019 DoReMI 1

Last week, we looked at two of the four key Lost Cause myths identified by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta in The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause”. This week, […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – The Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven’t Busted 9/17/19

September 17, 2019 DoReMI 4

I became a history major, in part, because I had excellent, compelling history teachers throughout my childhood. It seemed to me (although I didn’t have these words until I was much older) that they approached […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Curiosity Piqued. Mississippi. 1890s. The Nadir. 9/10/19

September 10, 2019 DoReMI 7

On September 5th, Janesaunt posted at The Orange about Jennifer Riley Collins, who is running for AG for Mississippi (this is the diary) and the intentional structural difficulties faced by African-American candidates in MS. In […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Cheat, Fake, Fool, and Lie 8/20/19

August 20, 2019 DoReMI 4

I wasn’t paying much attention to Twitter this past weekend, so I am grateful that Sis Dee’s Sunday post (1619. The 400th anniversary of the real founding of America.) brought the 1619 Project to my […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Six Minutes of History 8/13/19

August 13, 2019 DoReMI 1

Words are superfluous. Field of Vision – A Night at the Garden from Field of Vision on Vimeo. For those wanting more information, an interview with the filmmaker is here: A Night at the Garden. […]

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Thursday in Mooseville – The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 8/1/19

August 1, 2019 DoReMI 3

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to watch an episode of POV on PBS (Bisbee 17). The film, Bisbee ‘17, is part documentary and part scripted community reenactment telling the story of the […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – The Cruelty Is the Point 7/30/19

July 30, 2019 DoReMI 1

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my internet connection issues are history, and I’m going to work the plan that I had last week…tidbits by tweet today and text on Thursday. While the Current Occupant […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Love It or Leave It 7/23/19

July 23, 2019 DoReMI 5

We all know xenophobia and racism are not new in this country, despite the ongoing “this isn’t who we are” hand-wringing. It continues to astound me that each new expression of hate, ignorance, and ugliness […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – “How Do You Spell Foreclose?”*** 7/16/19

July 16, 2019 DoReMI 2

After seeing the photos of the Waffen SS VPOTUS and Senate delegation observing the specimens people in the concentration camps, I was overwhelmed, saddened, angered, and fearful. To see the casual indifference displayed by our […]

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Spring Colors in the Pacific Northwest woods

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May 15, 2026 6
I love the Pacific Northwest native flora this time of year as they emerge from our long dark winter. Since we can’t get out into the woods everyday, we have brought the woodlands colors home [...]

April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

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May 1, 2026 2
At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]
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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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 [...]
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Spring is in the air!

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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