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.

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  • This is all I can do today

    This is all I can do today

      Happy Sunday.

  • Zazenkai

    Zazenkai

    I mentioned that I would blog about my first zazenkai experience. Since most of us in our little group are new to the practice of meditation it was decided that we would do a shorter version. So we planned for 6 hours. There was a very organized schedule. We, essentially, did zazen for 30 minutes…

  • I did not take any pictures yesterday

    I just realized. So I have no photographic evidence of the fun I had. that’s just so sad. But I did have lots of fun! I took the train to the Hollywood district and walked a million blocks to the first yarn store on our list, Twisted. I walked in the door and there was…

  • on meeting virtual friends

    Today I’m going to take the train into Portland to meet up with my friend Preita. She is someone I’m friends with on Flickr and Ravelry. We’ve been friends online for 5 years. can you believe that? 5 years! This will be the first Ravelry (knitting) friend I’ve met in person. I’ve met lots of…

  • tattoo

    It occurs to me that I didn’t blog about my latest tattoo. I got this one at the end of June. It was  a last minute kind of thing. I stopped by the tattoo shop raf works at and he was bummed because his appointment didn’t show up. So he asked me if I wanted…