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Fighting Back: “Our health care is still under attack by the Republican Party”

July 6, 2019 JanF 1

    The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Doug Jones of Alabama, decrying the Republican Party’s assault on our health care. “Every time the Administration launches a new assault on our health […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Popping One’s Own Bubbles 4/30/19

April 30, 2019 DoReMI 3

This is a personal post. It’s part confession; part tearing at the fabric of my own privilege and hubris; and part invitation to examine one’s own influences and determine if there are any bubble that […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Unsung: Voices from the Margins 4/2/19

April 2, 2019 DoReMI 2

Note: I started this post in November 2017 but didn’t complete or publish it after deciding that it was a bit too obscure. But then I saw these tweets over the weekend; the devastating loss […]

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Celebrating Democratic Party History: The Civil Rights Act of 1964

July 7, 2018 JanF 5

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 The act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin and gave […]

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VNV Tuesday – Speaking Her Truth: Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992) 4/3/18

April 3, 2018 DoReMI 5

Modjeska Monteith was raised to be an activist, although it’s doubtful her parents would have phrased it that way. Her father, a master brick mason, and her mother, a schoolteacher who only quit teaching when […]

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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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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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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: Lessons in Sausage-Making (h/t @JoyAnnReid) 1/23/18

January 23, 2018 DoReMI 6

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 […]

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Holding Vigil for One of Our Founding “Meeses” – Denise Velez (Updated)

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July 13, 2026 8
Back in September 2008, a group of like minded people gathered at the Motley Moose to talk about politics and how they could promote politicians and political causes that would change people’s lives for the [...]

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Later this morning, we will 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° [...]
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Spring Colors in the Pacific Northwest woods

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 [...]
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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

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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