Blatherskite

Foolish gibberish

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Random

Just random crap. Foolish gibberish.

  • The Oregon Rain makes me all introspective

    At my meditation group there is a friend who has had to deal with a lot of death lately.  She was exasperated and wondered aloud how long she would have to deal with this. “For the rest of your life” was the response. And this is so true. I’ve been thinking a lot about this…

  • thinking

    It’s been a week since I posted. I’ve been really wondering if I still have the blogging mojo in me. I’ve been running this blog for 7 years. Can you believe that?!? Seven years! I’m finding it kind of redundant to post knitting projects both here and on Ravelry. So I think I’ll keep all…

  • On Grief

    On Grief

    I’ve been going to a meditation group once a week. I’ve been going for about 2 months now and I love it. I think it has kind of changed my life. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been interested in Zen and have been reading and learning about it for a couple of years. The only problem is…

  • Raf’s description of a margarita.

    “It’s an alcoholic Slushie, but fancied up”

  • f-ed up

    I don’t have any photos to post this week but I saw this one yesterday and it made me audibly gasp in horror. This is utterly and completely despicable. I hope that whoever is responsible for this devastation is criminally punished. And rots in hell.