Category — Microblog Mondays

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I often struggle with how to say “no” when I know that I need to say, “no.” And when I get it right (or I feel like I’ve nailed a good “no”), I drop the text into a document that I can look back on in the future. The email is rarely helpful a second time, but you never know.

Someone passed along this canned response gallery of “how to say no,” and now I pass it along to you in case it is helpful. A lot of these situations are not ones I struggle with, but I still bookmarked it for inspiration. Maybe they’ll pad it out with more situations in the future.

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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 found a fun site that tells you how many people are in outer space at any given time. Hint: the answer doesn’t change much from day to day, but it’s still fun to check it every once in a while, waiting for the number to go up or down.

What does change are the number of days a person has been in space. It’s fun to take the number, Google the date by typing something such as “229 days ago,” and having Google deliver the date. And then looking in my datebook to see what I was doing on that day. On the day that Zhai Zhigang went into space, my friend, Christine, sent me goat milk caramels.

What were you doing?

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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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The Israeli writer, A.B. Yehoshua died last week. I found out on Facebook, which is always such an odd thing — to see the end of a life sandwiched between a post about gardening and another about graduation.

His books defined my mid-twenties. My late-twenties. My early thirties. It has been a long time since I picked up one of his books, but there was a time when he was my go-to, my touchstone, my favourite.

It’s sad to lose a writer, but I feel lucky that I still have his books.

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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 saw a quote from Ocean Vuong from NPR’s Fresh Air: “You realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life.”

What a profound thought: that grief is love. It’s an expression of love after a loss, when you can no longer express your love to that person, place, or thing in another way. And that you express your love in this way (and perhaps in other ways that you discover down the road) for the rest of your life.

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I saw a tweet about a new book that asks an excellent question: “Why do we label some things but not others?”

I don’t expect any language to have a word for everything, but once we see a gap in our language, why don’t we fill it? With information exchanged globally, why aren’t we looking at words that don’t exist in our own language and creating an equivalent? Things that are important get labeled — the Sami have 180 words for snow — but there can be both initially-labeled and labeled-in-retrospect words.

Something to think about.

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