the mental mulch pile
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The Möbius Book, Stripped
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
Self-pebbling as an act of hope
Sometimes the algorithm gods can be benevolent, and so it was that some time last year I was first introduced to the concept of pebbling — “the act of offering small, meaningful objects or gestures to establish social bonds”…
Surrounded in bookishness
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Digital AND Physical: Contemporary Issues in Collections Management
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Happy Fourth Birthday to the Butterflies & Aliens Library!
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Something awoke in the garden…
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Embracing the messiness
Had the joy and delight to be invited to contribute a small guest post to the blog for the Humanities Networked Infrastructure project, or HuNI, which then links back to my Seredipity Project over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library…
Introducing the Capping Project…
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Colophon 2024
Since May 2021, the Black Riders website has been hosted on…
Time Travelling with Rare Print Materials
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An ever widening path of destruction…
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An open letter to my choir family
Hey choir fam,
So I’ve needed to take a few days to process last weekend’s retreat, much more so than past years…
Fifty Favourite Things
I was inspired to pull together this list by one of my When Words Collide fam, Erin Weir, and her recent Erin’s Favourite Things post on her blog, A Flimsy Plan. As someone who talks and thinks a lot about gratitude, I thought this would be a nice twist on the usual kind of gratitude list. But what would be in such a list for me?…
There is just the way you choose…
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The Serendipity Project
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But seriously…
This life, this universe, this plane of existence… and my particular path through it… please allow me a moment to overthink…
Ready or not, here I come…
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The light that is you…
I want so badly to fix the world…
The music that is your soul
So I’ve been pondering a new metaphor for body, mind, and soul… one that has been slowly taking root on the mental mulch pile, growing from a particularly rich little corner of music and choir and community…
Bread and representation
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