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Music Monday – “He’s brown as a berry from ridin’ the prairie/And he sings with an ol’ western drawl/Ooh-ooh-ooh-doo-di-di/Singing his cattle call”

  “Cattle Call” – Eddy Arnold RIP Lloyd Thompson (1942-2021)

Posted 26 July 2021 § Family § MusicMonday § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Glad I’m Not That Guy! ;-)

Always sad to hear libraries that are facing great challenges. 🙁

Posted 06 July 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – Shining A Light

Powerful image of 751 solar lights during a vigil to recognize the children found in unmarked graves at Cowessess First Nation…

Posted 27 June 2021 § Canada § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – Love Thy Neighbour

Posted 20 June 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – Residential Schools: A Timeline

*Literally* the first words of this timeline discuss the central role of various churches in the creation of schools that took Indigenous children from their parents, communities and culture. For more than two hundred years [from 1600-1800], religious orders run mission schools for Indigenous children, the precursors to the Government of Canada’s residential school system.

Posted 06 June 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I’m a white man living on a white man’s street/I’ve got the bones of the red man under my feet/The highway runs through their burial grounds…We’re all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate”

“White Man’s World” – Jason Isbell

Posted 31 May 2021 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Eric Carle, Author of “The Hungry Caterpillar” Among Many Other Classics, Has Died

Very sad news. We had a “Hungry Caterpillar” themed birthday when Sasha turned one that was a huge hit – great decorations (mostly homemade or from the Dollar Store), a “Hungry Caterpillar” dress ordered off Etsy, and her (at the time) five year old brother even did a reading of “The Hungry Caterpillar” using a […]

Posted 26 May 2021 § Baby § Family § Library § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “The snow is so merciless/Poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that’s happened/Yeah, in spite of it all”

The Tragically Hip released a new album this weekend called “Saskadelphia” comprised of six Road Apples-era unreleased songs including one of their most emotionally powerful songs ever… “Montreal” – Tragically Hip

Posted 24 May 2021 § Canada § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

RIP Shane-o (1973-2021)

Overall, death tends to be pretty linear. The oldest people you know usually die first – I suspect grandparents are often the first human deaths most people experience.  Or possibly people of the same generation – great aunts and uncles.  Elderly neighbours. Then, as you get older, the age of those dying, tends to get […]

Posted 18 May 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

RIP Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) 1940-2021

PICTURES OF THE DEAD (from “Dark Halo”) The dead leave us only images of themselves: souvenirs in washed out colours, dried petals pressed in family albums, shadows that stain our papered walls.  They abandon us in our rooms, teach us how to converse with dust, will not let us forget them. But in our glistening reeds […]

Posted 25 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § Travel § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,