Category — Microblog Mondays

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I get Erin McKeown’s infrequent newsletter. She sends it out every once in a while, and it’s one of my favourite things to read.

In her most recent edition, she talks about how some songs (and put in any form of self-expression in that space that fits your world) are still relevant down the road, and some no longer fit.

“Time moves on, feelings change, we grow and grow older. Sometimes songs stay fresh because they grow with us, other times we need to keep singing them to remind us of important things, but sometimes it’s totally fine to put a song in the tomb, roll the stone in front, and let it stay there.”

I really love that idea of always weighing how something fits; whether it’s worth keeping around as a reminder or whether it’s better to set it in its place and move on to other ideas, experiences, or expressions.

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There is an Instagram account that pulls out nuggets from lesser-read Wikipedia pages. A case in point: crab mentality. Or Buffalo buffalo buffalo. (For that one, I had to go to the full Wikipedia page to understand it.)

We recently told the twins about the joy of turning to random pages in the World Book encyclopedia, but I’m not sure how well it competes against today’s Wikipedia with 6,281,779 articles. Nevermind, I looked it up. 17,000 articles in 2019.

Wikipedia has a feature to randomly send you to an article. I got Umtentweni. What did you get?

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Cutchicle: a small, rounded lump or crust; as in, “the roasted chicken was crusted with glistening cutchicles.”

Or not.

That word does not exist.

You can find your own non-exist word on the site. My favourites so far are thimblet—though I’m not loving the definition (“fish of a predatory family that includes the sea bass, tuna, and king trout”)—and quintuque (“the first paragraph or so of a book, chapter, or speech as a whole”).

Which words did you find?

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This has not been a good month for beloved childhood authors. Hearing about Beverly Cleary was salt on an already raw wound.

I loved the article in the Washington Post explaining why Ramona meant so much to a generation. “Cleary took every attribute that girls were then warned away from — bossiness, brashness, hot temper — and she tucked them all into one character. And then she made that character into an inspiration.” Read to the end of the tribute. I cried with those last lines.

That sentiment—”being too much”—came from an older LitHub piece that was pushed out again this weekend. It’s a good goal to have: To be too much. I’m grateful to Cleary for giving girls a map to muchness.

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A testament to how much I love and miss my sister: I burst into tears and fogged up my glasses the moment she came outside and I saw her for the first time in over a year. She drove 8 hours to see my parents now that everyone in that equation is vaccinated. Except for me. Hence outside. And far apart. And it the rain.

I once had tickets to see Bob Dylan, and I gave them up because the forecast said it would probably drizzle. Drizzle! But before I went over to my parents’ porch, I saw they were predicting an inch of rain. Unlike Bob Dylan in a drizzle, my sister after over a year apart in a downpour sounded completely do-able.

My younger niece made me awesome stickers (with the cutest guinea pig design courtesy of her older sister). We took an 18-foot-apart selfie together. And we just talked for three hours. It was amazing and emotional, and I also cried on the drive home.

I have missed my sister so much, and I feel very lucky that I got to see her from far away.

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