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Friday Fun Link – Author Dive
Came across the “Author Dive” site buried in a Reddit comment. Enter ten of your favourite authors and it will provide a heat map of similar authors you might want to check out…
Throwback Thursday – “A Man Without Land Is Nothing” – Duddy Kravitz (August 2022)
I’ve been heavily involved in a variety of major changes for those I love most in the past three years – my mom is now in a care home because of her dementia, my dad has finished the sale of the last quarter of land from the farm that’s been in our family since 1883 (except for a very small parcel he kept so that land will remain in our name), my son is now in University and my daughter is…well, let’s just say she’s kept me busy too! 😉
Thinking a lot about our family farm, my dad, my mom and my kids…especially today.
Politically Active Week Continues…
Completely unintentional but I even styled my hair like Charlie’s! Very powerful presenation about the current situation with the United States and many other related topics – AI, soy beans, China, higher education, Indigenous rights and more.
Music Monday – “Everyone’s watching, to see what you will do/Everyone’s looking at you,/oh Everyone’s wondering, will you come out tonight/Everyone’s trying to get it right, get it right
Had a busy weekend…
Went to meet my local councillor at his “Coffee with a Councillor” event and ended up bumping into enough of city council including the Mayor to have quorum for a meeting! (not pictured – Councillor Mark Burton) Had a great chat about taxes, mega projects, development, and yes, even though I was there as a private citizen and not as a representative of any library system, the role of libraries in the community.
Such a refreshing change after our last council which was filled with infighting and negativity to see a council that genuinely seems to like and support each other!
Went to RPL Social Club Costume Ball in evening and threw together a bit of an abstract costume, at least partly inspired by the conversations with the councilors earlier in the day….
Cooked 200 hot dogs on Sunday morning on behalf of the Regina & District Labour Council…
…then took them to Pepsi Park and spent a couple hours helping serve them to many who live in that area including a number of Regina’s less fortunate residents (including a number of people I knew as library regulars) as part of a “Family Fun Day” picnic.
Ended the weekend by spontaneously taking Sasha to a “Learn to Skate” event hosted by a local roller derby club in a community centre that also houses a branch of Regina Public Library.
I didn’t think of it before I started typing this post but it made me realise that a common thread running through everything I did was that even though not one of these conversations/events/activities took place *in* a library, they all had a connection to the library in some way. Amazing to work for an organization that is a thread running through all aspects of the community!
“Working For The Weekend” – Loverboy
Lawful Evil vs. Chaotic Evil: Understanding the Motivation of the Charlie Kirk Shooter
There is a far-right group called Turning Point USA led by Charlie Kirk and another, even more far-right group called Groypers, led by Charlie Fuentes and they are at war with each other, even while being at war with the wider world in various ways.
This is a great explanation of why:
@cybelecanterel A quick crash course in blackpill accelerationism: the memes are the ideology.
Music Monday – “out in the bloodshed the cycle begins/and everyone dies/spin the wheel, if you don’t get killed/you wind up dead inside”
“Charlie” – Jesse Welles
17 Words For My 17th Anniversary of Working at RPL
Today was my 17th anniversary of starting work at RPL and, coincidentally, I spent it in bargaining all day as a representative of CUPE1594 (not going to lie – a bit sad no one on management side congratulated me!) 😉
Anyhow, I thought it might be a fun exercise to randomly pick the first 17 words/phrases that come to mind when I think back on my 17 years at the library (I did five memories for my five year anniversary so will try not to duplicate)…
- Consortium
- Staff (Training) Manual
- Machete
- Branch Head
- Home Lottery
- Turnover
- Perogies
- Check-It-Out Blog/RPLWatch
- Leadership
- Guiness World Book
- Labour Relations Board
- Coffee Klatch/Librarian Forum
- Detox Admission
- Memorable Regulars (Deserves A List of Its Own!)
- Club Fun/Lemon Pig
- Staff Development Day
- Covid Closures