Slightly Belated Birthday

2018-12-17 - 2018-12-23

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#109. Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)

'This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record, and hopefully the start of a new conversation.'

Metropole Orkest Big Band Plays Quincy Jones

usually i don't listen much to lyrics, but these caught my attention.

Monday, 2018 December 17

played scrabble.

Tuesday, 2018 December 18

'We do not have much time. If we miss the goal of reducing emissions globally by 45 per cent in 12 years, that one last chance is lost. Forever.'--Elizabeth May

watched the agenda (indigenous youth in crisis; speaking truth to power).

Wednesday, 2018 December 19

'You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.'--Phil Ochs (1940-1976)

Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear,
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye
clear. What we need is here.

Excerpt from The Wild Geese by Wendell Berry

in the morning we went to grounded. in the evening, susan took mary to the movies. i'm working on a christmas card and i want to add some text; however, 'firefox has postponed its implementation [of SVG fonts] indefinitely'. earlier at grounded and later when susan returned, however, it wasn't so challenging.

Thursday, 2018 December 20

Ontario Priorities reports that 'on the same day that it passed Bill 57 [the Restoring Trust, Transparency, and Accountability Act], the Ontario Government has now introduced an alarming new bill, Bill 66, the Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, which sweeps away many important land-use planning and environmental protection measures, from requirements to protect drinking water sources to protecting lands in the Greenbelt.'

watched the agenda (the music show).

my latest.

Friday, 2018 December 21

The Agenda's Year That Was.

Saturday, 2018 December 22

we went to cady's slightly belated birthday dinner at karen's.

Sunday, 2018 December 23

s to toronto. been working on this one for weeks; today working on it while listening to the cbc's joy to the world.