The End of A Day Off

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Winter’s here. Yes there was some sleety, snowy, mixed-precip sorta stuff but tonight friends, there was roof avalanching.

After a day of reading news stuff and trying to wrap my head around what a person might do, I watched a movie (tiny dose of Cumberbatch – August Osage County) and then I headed off to make paint hit paper. Has luck would have it, a piece of Arches came to hand so I felt it just had to start off well. Now it really needs to dry before finishing and that’s ok because I’m sort of finished myself.

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National Haiku Month is Coming!

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I was looking at the 10 Actions in 100 Days website and thinking about sending postcards (seem to do that pretty regularly although not on political topics) and then remembered that February is National Haiku Month. In the past I haven’t done a theme throughout the month although some days generated multiple haiku around a subject.

So folks, I’m going to try writing haiku on National Topics of Interest (to me, anyway) and I’m going to send them out into the world on little pieces of paper and see if a ripple happens somewhere.

If you want to generate a back and print it, here is a link to the 10/100’s printable postcard site. You could come up with your own or use commercially available postcards to send your own messages, haiku or not.

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Doing the Work

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I ordered some buttons to share with people today and I did this. And some wash. And I filled my big sugar canister. And had eggs for breakfast. And I looked at lots of reports and photos from yesterday’s #womensmarch

and I saw this quote go by and added it to the quote box:

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. — Langston Hughes

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Proud and Humbled

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I am at work today. I am with -in spirit- my friends across the world who are marching with thousands of other folks – for women’s rights, for justice and equality for everyone. I’ve said numerous times in the past few years ‘I didn’t live through the seventies so stuff like this could happen!’ usually in regards to discrimination or stereotyping. I think we’d all like to think that the world has come aways since the sixties but I know deep down that we have to admit that it hasn’t come very far at all.

Seeing all the faces, some clad in the new symbol of our age – that pink pussy hat, showing off their signs, being interviewed, standing in the masses – it’s all making me weepy. It’s so important to do this, to stand up and say no to the status quo and then to take that strength from being part of those masses and apply it every day. To demand respect and fair treatment from others. To stand up for others who need your strength.

Let’s do this so completely we don’t have to think a generation or two from now – we didn’t march for nothing.

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Twitter anyone?

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I am always looking to see what User Number people are when they’re on Twitter. I got in fairly early, March 2007, just as the membership curve leapt upward and I’m perhaps unjustifiably proud that my Twitter number is 2,720,811 and that I know a few people with numbers quite a bit lower than mine.

Having said all that, I suddenly wondered today – what about my follow of @WhiteHouse? I had read that our new prez was going to continue under his own account @realdonaldtrump (Twitter number 25,073,877, member since March 2009). Huh. For the record I don’t follow @realdonaldtrump although I have the search for him on speed dial so as to verify various issuances.

Somewhere just now I read that Mr. Obama had returned to his own Twitter account so I went over to follow that. Of course I had to check out his number:

I knew I liked him!

The answer to my question is that the White House account was apparently closed and re-created, clearing the decks of followers etc.

So there you go. All and more than you needed to know about the pecking order of Twitter. For the record I re-upped following @WhiteHouse. Seems to be a more official set of tweets so far, coming from a web-based client. The Don tweets from a droid.

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