Twenty Ways to Matter – The Marginalian
if you read nothing else today, read this…
yesterday i was grateful for McMillan Plumbing, who got our house drain flowing again, One Nature and the boulder wall they partially constructed, a tiny hole in the wall Mexican restaurant we discovered and baby turkeys…
today i am looking forward to protesting against kinghood, and it finally being warm enough to wear a spring outfit, including sandals…
of course there would be an expensive plumbing emergency at a moment when you are spending thousands on a garden renovation… no, the two are not related… sigh…
yesterday i was grateful for restorative yoga, lunch at Toro and a quiet evening at home with Holly…
today i am looking forward to my first day of tending the turkey chicks, and continued progress on our garden renovations…
The principle of evil consists in messing into other people’s affairs.
— Lewis Hyde, The Gift
i don’t think i have ever seen evil this succinctly defined… there seems to be a limiting but profound truth to it… evil exists between “intelligent” beings only… it is not a general condition of the universe even if it is a general condition of humanity…
yesterday i was grateful for pilates with Tessa, a drop of .4 in my A1c level, problems with solutions and steak for dinner…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga, lunch and a manicure with Holly and maybe the start of our garden renovation project…
yesterday i was grateful for yoga with Maryanne, the arborist who cleared out the winter tree carnage, lunch with Holly and sci-fi reading group…
today i am looking forward to pilates with Tessa, working with my colleagues at the cemetery and progress with our garden renovations…
yesterday i was grateful for our meeting with Bryan from One Nature to review our garden project, good things are coming…
today i am looking forward to the start of our garden project, yoga led by Maryanne, and lunch with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for the farmer’s market and an afternoon in the garden with Holly…
today i am looking forward to getting our tax payment in the mail, driving Holly to the optician to pick up her new glasses and maybe mine, and yoga with Anne…
yesterday i was grateful for the compliments i got on my new pink tiger print shirt dress and the protest marshal training session i attended…
today i am looking forward to the farmer’s market and getting ready for our front garden renovation project…
yesterday i was grateful for Stanza Books, Another Door, and Burkelman’s, where i shopped with Holly and bought a cool shirt dress, some jewelry, and the book, Solitary Confinement by Christopher Burney…
today i am looking forward to demonstration marshal training with Holly…
Trump praises Whitmer in friendly Oval Office meeting - POLITICO
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President Donald Trump praised Gretchen Whitmer in a White House meeting on Wednesday, echoing a bipartisan message the Michigan governor delivered during an earlier speech in Washington, D.C.
Even with the pause, we now have the highest overall average effective tariff rate since 1909 - higher even than the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 that played a major role in deepening the Great Depression. And that includes high tariffs on nations like Switzerland and Israel, which don’t impose any tariffs on US goods - thereby giving the lie to the notion that Trump’s trade war is about breaking down “unfair” trade practices by other nations.
yesterday i was grateful for Devon who liked my dress, restorative yoga with Maryanne, and lunch at Pizza Phil’s with Holly…
today i am looking forward to picking up a book i ordered from Stanza bookstore and maybe a little shopping on Main Street…
yesterday i was grateful for the positive resolution of an issue at work, dinner at Wonderbar, and running into Audrey and Bruce…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga with Mary Anne and lunch with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for the return of in-person photography salon, the good turnout and the very good work shared…
today i am looking forward to the resolution of a work issue, pilates, and getting over the hump of my week…
yesterday i was grateful for my yoga teacher, Ann, and the yoga men…
today i am looking forward to meeting with our financial advisor and the return of in person photo salon…
yesterday i was grateful for the friends who gathered with me to celebrate my 70th birthday… love you all…
today i am looking forward to lunch with Alan and Steve, and yoga with Ann…
yesterday i was grateful for all the people who showed up to protest in Beacon and all the car drivers who honked their horns in solidarity!…
today i am looking forward to celebrating my birthday with friends…
this morning i am grateful for the completion of my 70th trip around the sun…
today i am looking forward to protesting in the spring rain and a nice celebratory dinner out…
yesterday i was grateful for the three dozen wild harvested clams gifted us by Charlie via my brother in law…
today i am looking forward to breakfast with D & K and getting my nails done…
yesterday i was grateful for the return home of my wife…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga and lunch with Holly…
a hopeful sign…
Crawford won by about 10 points.
“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”
yesterday i was grateful for yoga and a slice of chicken, bacon, ranch pizza from Pizza Phill’s…
today i am looking forward to my wife’s return from visiting her mother…
yesterday i was grateful for David’s help with repositioning our refrigerator, the love of my dogs and the squid i made myself for dinner…
today i am looking forward to moving our new dishwasher into the kitchen and a productive day on several fronts…