the mental mulch pile
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Colophon 2024
Since May 2021, the Black Riders website has been hosted on…
Time Travelling with Rare Print Materials
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
An ever widening path of destruction…
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
An open letter to my choir family
Hey choir fam,
So I’ve needed to take a few days to process last weekend’s retreat, much more so than past years…
Fifty Favourite Things
I was inspired to pull together this list by one of my When Words Collide fam, Erin Weir, and her recent Erin’s Favourite Things post on her blog, A Flimsy Plan. As someone who talks and thinks a lot about gratitude, I thought this would be a nice twist on the usual kind of gratitude list. But what would be in such a list for me?…
There is just the way you choose…
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
The Serendipity Project
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
But seriously…
This life, this universe, this plane of existence… and my particular path through it… please allow me a moment to overthink…
Ready or not, here I come…
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
The light that is you…
I want so badly to fix the world…
The music that is your soul
So I’ve been pondering a new metaphor for body, mind, and soul… one that has been slowly taking root on the mental mulch pile, growing from a particularly rich little corner of music and choir and community…
Bread and representation
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
You can't put lipstick on a pig
I have now spent over thirty years working in communications, marketing, and branding. The most important thing I've learned... the most important principle for doing this job ethically and well... can be summed up in a saying that's been around about twice as long as that...
A Book of Centuries
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
Journal of a Voyage
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
Arranging Furniture
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
the silver lining is gratitude
This was written in response to a social media post regarding an anti-trans protest and counter protest that is scheduled to happen tomorrow, which reads in part “This event has a high potential for violence, especially towards visibly queer and racialized individuals… If you are visibly queer and/or racialized, we recommend that you AVOID this area on that day”…
Unity, Uniformity, and University
Friendly reminder to the Universe that a University is not at its core meant to be corporation but a community...
No avatar, just an original
A new addition over at the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…
The XKCD Digital Lifespan Chart in Context, v1.2
A three-asterisk and seven-word update of my original XKCD Digital Lifespan Chart in Context…