Category — Microblog Mondays

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

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When I first heard about a “paste party” on Twitter, I assumed it meant everyone showing off pictures of their fake jewelry. Like tweet after tweet of rhinestones.

I’m not very bright.

A paste party is when you hit “command-v” (or however you paste after you copy something to your phone or computer’s clipboard) and paste whatever you copied last. Andy Baio describes it as “a momentary snapshot of digital ephemera, to be used and immediately discarded, much of it never meant to be seen by anyone and stripped of all context.”

I loved it. Much better than rhinestones.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

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

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It feels fitting that the 301st Microblog Monday would be about transitions. Not that it is experiencing a transition except for going from 300 to 301. I guess I’m stretching here.

But I bookmarked this ages ago and clicked the bookmark this weekend to remember what it was. Atlas Obscura set up a booth called the Plotz Plot in Arizona (which blew over by this point). They explain:

Visitors to the Plotz Plot will discover a small metal shed with a sign that reads: “For those experiencing a life transition: This is a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.”

I really love this idea of setting up a physical space where people can take a pilgrimage and shed an object to give themselves closure on one section of their life. To know that the object is sitting with dozens or hundreds of other objects that all meant something enormous to the people who owned them once upon a time.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

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

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This is the 300th time we’ve met up for Microblog Monday. That’s almost 6 years worth of posts!

The whole point of the project was to get people to record some of their thoughts in their own space. Facebook could go away tomorrow. Twitter could delete your tweets. Instagram is just renting a visual space. But your blog is your place to write your thoughts. It’s not about not writing in those other places; it’s about stopping by your home on the Internet and placing some thoughts inside, too.

Thank you to everyone who places thoughts inside your space.

The best way to honour Microblog Monday is to get two or three friends to return and write a post in their own space today. Just two or three sentences, marking what they’re thinking or feeling right now. Seriously, the whole thing should take you two minutes; the same amount of time it takes you to write an update on Facebook. In fact, you can just cut-and-paste your Facebook update into your blog. Ta-da: two birds/one stone.

Happy anniversary, Microblog Mondays!

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

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

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It feels morbid to talk about funerals in the middle of a pandemic—something I wouldn’t have thought twice about pre-Covid-19—but I really loved this tradition I saw in Atlas Obscura.

Funeral cookbooks.

In Thailand, funeral books preserve memories and photos of a person. They’re handed out at the ceremony as people say goodbye. And some families include recipes that the person made while alive. Isn’t that brilliant? So when you miss them, you can make that dish. And great recipes don’t die out with the person.

I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that people like that I would include. Or my hamantaschen. Or you can include foods you liked (vs. recipes you created). What would be in your book?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

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

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I learned a new term this week: allostatic load. It is “the damage on our bodies when they’re repeatedly exposed to stress.” It’s what is happening to your brain from living under the stress of Covid-19: either because you’ve lost your job or you’re in fear of losing your job or your job puts you in harm’s way or you’re working at home but you can’t really get work done at home or you’ve lost a loved one or you’re in fear of losing a loved one or you’re about to meltdown if you don’t get out of your home or someone has just asked you for something and you have nothing left to give.

All of the above.

And we don’t know when any of this will end. Or what the next three years will look like.

I wasn’t sleeping before the pandemic, but I’m really not sleeping now during the pandemic. I’m awake at least once per night, but sometimes up to four times. I have a lot of nightmares.

It would be really nice if the universe could give us a break.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.