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Spirit Wind 7 said:
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No, I haven't heard her. That would be interesting.

A dear friend of mine is a residential school survivor. It warrants a state of hellish behaviours from colonials.
Yet the governments still fight kids in courts. God is not a weapon, nor carries any.
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Spirit Wind 7 said:
No, I haven't heard her. That would be interesting.

A dear friend of mine is a residential school survivor. It warrants a state of hellish behaviours from colonials.
Yet the governments still fight kids in courts. God is not a weapon, nor carries any.
Keep loving more and more.
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I agree. I've met several survivors or children of survivors through my work. I was honoured to hear their stories. A person only needs to hear one story to learn why they don't "just get over it"
 
Anybody read Mailer's Ancient Evenings? Just finished rereading Brave New World and it made me think of a dark lady with 16 faces (marking the passage of a month divided into zones of behaviour).

Some students of the Black Arts suggest the human psyche reflects this way ... like a double octogenarian! One might get the idea the world loved psychotic behaviour if you were visiting from an eternal, objective observation point. Psyche fractions ... or facet of a dark gemstone?

Opaline on a half shell looking for her marbles? What an experience life is with the conception of winning Christians at all costs ... thus the fallacy (some say a come down)! The abstract is that humanity is not psychotic! Imagine ... just look lightly about ... do no damage ... could disturb the alternate egos ...

You did know in the classics, ego was a sentient state not a thing? Imagine the ruckus with the UN a' WOKE! Yes, some say they saw it but say ide is difficult to absorb how people behave after denying sol ... once out thought process fails us ... tread lightly ... it is a fragile human resource ... frequently labeled: prodigal ... as per the Jerusalem Dump ... fires burn there. Diabolical thing in a perfect city! Yet they did have their conflicts and crusades also ... many broken shells ... so much for hard-shells ... they cannot see things behind the scene as they turn with difficulty ... greatest analysis is to steam and consume ...

Imagine Black Body Reflector Theory costumed so the powers wouldn't get it ... Joan, or Jean? They'll be stalking Johns and Peters approaching the gate ...

I saw a cartoon about Pat R conferring with Saint P ... at the transfer point ... trans meditation? Imagine Pat as alternate genre and quite fey and flighty ... almost like myth-Oz ... sketchy, nebulae? Fuzzy threads ... the eternal will not reveal the end of the myth ... as it is yet not over ... still under foot ... so the powers can bury their heads there ... knowledge is evil !
 
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I finished Five Little Indians. What a powerful book. I thought I knew a lot about Residential Schools and related issues. I've met many survivors and children/descendants of survivors. This book makes me feel like I didn't know anything. It should be a must read for every Canadian

I've just started reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. So far so good.
 
You will love The Testaments, that is, as much as one can 'love' very accurate-feeling dystopian fiction. Margaret Atwood can NEVER DIE. I will be too devastated. She is the background reading of my life, from Surfacing and The Edible Woman as a young woman, through her historical fiction, like Alias Grace, to her poetry, to her passion for the early settler women and their lives, to her recent modern epics, like the MadAddam trilogy, and Handmaids Tale/The Testaments.
 
I'm really enjoying The Testaments. When I worked in Toronto and had a long public transit commute, I read a lot of books from Mississauga Library. I went through all of Margaret Atwood's books. I started with Alias Grace. I agree, it will be a tragic day when she dies.
 
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I am into Mary Oliver’s poetry right now. Got two books from the library.
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One of the greats. She had a connection to UU'ism for many years so I discovered her during my UU period. There's even some of her work in the UU hymn and service book.
 
I read her book with poems about her dogs- and though I am more of a cat person, they are loverly in describing their characters.
 
Just a lovely poet, with a rather uniquely intimate relationship with nature/her surroundings.

We start our Tuesday Night Progressive discussion group each Tuesday with a reading followed by a silent meditation. Mary Oliver is a favourite of Dave's, my co-leader, and mine.
 
Stranger in the Mirror ... a story of something in us that is hard to reflect on as feminine (according to some BS)!

Many conflicted souls are accrued ... i.e. gathered! Later they are scattered through out the tome as if buried in the story ... there remains a common theme there as if a conspiracy! Something Tobias looked at differently ... Toby: an old word for good of god all things are taken down by the advocate if not kindly ...
 
I'm really enjoying a couple of reads right now. One is an anthology of essays Neil Gaiman, called From the Cheap Seats, with some very entertaining and educational ideas. The other is a new passion of mine: Dianne Wynne-Jones, who writes Young Adult fiction. I've started the Chrestomanci series. Witches and magic, again. Fun.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I'm really enjoying a couple of reads right now. One is an anthology of essays Neil Gaiman, called From the Cheap Seats, with some very entertaining and educational ideas. The other is a new passion of mine: Dianne Wynne-Jones, who writes Young Adult fiction. I've started the Chrestomanci series. Witches and magic, again. Fun.
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Magi is how an idea can enter a skull from print on a page that just lies there waiting for confrontation. That's word for yah ... many prefer secular conflict and growing aggression ... a bit stunned?

Few believe that limited folk can be stunned ... and yet!
 
After a long time eyeing it and thinking "This sounds like something I should be reading" I finally took the plunge and started reading Saga. Saga is a comic series by writer Brian K Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples. It has been running since 2012 with a hiatus from 2018 to 2022. The series is highly acclaimed and has racked up plenty of awards and positive reviews.

What is it about? It is high fantasy with a huge dollop of s-f elements and very R-rated (nudity, sex, graphic violence). The story is kind of a Romeo and Juliet riff with a couple from rival civilizations in a galactic-scale war being hunted by their respective people after having a baby together. Except the woman has wings and the man has horns. And there are robots, ghosts, and weird aliens involved. But also magic. Not pseudo-magic like The Force but actual fantasy magic. Weird and wonderful, but also has well-developed and thought out characters and world-building even in the early issues.

I am currently reading the Saga Compendium, which collects the first 54 issues, from the beginning to the hiatus. After that, they compile the ongoing issues into graphic novel format every few months or there's always the individual issues once I am caught up enough to start reading it in real time. I am using the Hoopla media app from my library, which is actually better for comics than books I find.
 
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