Category — Microblog Mondays

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Just when I think that social media has ceased to be social, people peek out to say happy birthday, or discuss an article, or reminisce about college. A friend posted a story that sent all of us down a rabbit hole of connected stories and people who have drifted away (whatever happened to them?). Suddenly, it felt like we were all hanging out in someone’s living room, tossing out facts so someone could pull them together into a cohesive memory.

I love that you can’t write it off. That social media keeps popping back up and reminding you that it can be anything we want it to be. We just have to make it happen.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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In honour of my birthday week (because I had to share my birthday with graduation, I think I deserve a week), I give you something fun.

I’ve had 1,225 candles used on my birthday cakes.

The moon has orbited the Earth 655 times.

There were approximately 4,029,967,636 other people alive on Earth back when I was born.

And… October 2nd, 1925 is equidistant to today’s date, with my birthday in the middle. That day, “John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television pictures.” Gulp.

Out of 100,000 people born on the same day, approximately 93,049 are still alive.

The history section at the bottom was probably the best part.
Enjoy it with your own birthday.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I knew people built vacations around cooking school experiences. One of our favourite restaurants in London built a cooking school, and we’d try it for a day during a longer trip. But I feel pretty confident in my ability to follow a recipe from afar, so we’ve never explored the whole spend-a-day-cooking-somewhere-interesting thing.

But I just found this — building a vacation around a class with an artist. So you can try out a new skill and make something beautiful while exploring somewhere interesting. I looked at the jewelry-making options because I would love to learn. (Like this one!) Or you can choose the place and then see which artists are there.

I love this idea. What would you learn?

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I called a favourite hotel to book a room, and once I said my name, the woman rattled off a bunch of facts about me (like… hotel-focused facts, such as the room I like to stay in) and finished with, “How is your guinea pig?” That is why I stay there. Because the woman at the front desk can name all of our guinea pigs and even sent a condolence card for Truman.

Before she got off, she started rattling through the script of things they always say when you book a room, but she trailed off and said, “You know. Because nothing ever changes here.” That is the other reason I stay. In a world that equates new with better or new with exciting, I like my hotel to be exactly the same. Year after year after year.

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The twins’ Kindergarten teacher was an incredible educator. I stayed in touch with her after the kids moved through other grades and the teacher moved out of the area. The twins invited her to their B’nai Mitzvah because they loved her so much.

I reached out to give her an update about the twins, and she shared that she was now a grandmother and sent along pictures. One circle ends, and another one begins. She gets to provide childcare when her daughter goes back to work. My heart was so happy for her.

Some of my happiest moments are reconnecting with someone I haven’t spoken to or seen in a long time, which is strange because I need to lose touch with them to gain that happiness. But it is what it is.

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