Blatherskite

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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: Thoughts and Opinions

Ranty rant rant. Sometimes an enlightened thought.

  • Thoughts on Facebook

    It seems like every few months I go through a period of time where I want to cut myself from the tether that is  Facebook.  Today is one of those days. I have a love/hate relationship with the social media website. Well, love might be too strong a word. Maybe it’s more like tolerate/hate. On…

  • There is more than one path to the mountain.

    There is more than one path to the mountain.

    Random thoughts bounce around in my head when I am running. The other day on my run I was thinking about evangelism. I decided that evangelizing is wrong. It took me awhile to reach this conclusion and it is a surprising conclusion for me. I have always been an evangelist, most of my life. Not…

  • We read the shit out of that book

    For the past year my meditation group has been reading Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. It’s been the perfect book for this sort of setting. The chapters are short. We have enough time after zazen to read one out loud and then discuss it. Many times we would read a chapter and be like, “huh?” It…

  • Death is the most painful heartbreak

    I walked out of Fred Meyer this morning and decided to check my e-mail on my phone. My manager sent an e-mail telling staff that one of our regular, and beloved, patrons had died unexpectedly last week. I was stunned. I stood there on the sidewalk in the rain, saying “oh no!” to myself (and…

  • The Universe Is Testing Me

    I have had a challenging couple of days. Actually, the past month has been pretty challenging for me, if  I were being honest with myself. But the past  couple of days especially. These are a few of the things, in chronological order, that I’ve dealt with: I got shushed yesterday while I was helping a…