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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  • The “I hate Carol” club.

    The “I hate Carol” club.

    I wrote this post on November 19th, 2009. Today I was reminded of this childhood experience and thought I’d repost.   When I was in 3rd grade, one afternoon on the playground, the girls in my class formed the, “I hate Carol club.” I’m not sure why. Carol was a friend of ours. We all…

  • Flickr Time Machine

    Every once in awhile I like to look at my Flickr Archives to see what I was doing on this day in a past year. Today I looked at 2008. This was the year I was in the middle of a photo/crafting project called “Project Spectrum.” Each year had a different theme and the particular…

  • Untitled post 18055

    The smell of film developing chemicals makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

  • Choose love.

    I’ve mentioned before that I am going through the exercises in the book “How to Train a Wild Elephant & other adventures in mindfulness” with my meditating friends. Some of the exercises have been more powerful than others. I wrote about my media fast last year, which was very eye-opening. A few months ago we…

  • On becoming a Buddhist (thinking outloud)

    The other day I finally made it into a popular bookstore in Portland, New Renaissance. It’s a really cool place, full of what some would call “new age” books but others might call spiritual (as opposed to religious). As I was wandering around I had my antennae up and was gauging how different sections of…