Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
Incredible
I just attended a conference where Melissa Florer-Bixler was the key note on the book of revelation. It was excellent.
I'm having a lot of fun with this. And what a coincidence, we're doing a series in the saints for lent at church and last night was Saint Anthony and Paul of Thebes! I voted for Paul because I think the ravens are cool. www.lentmadness.org/2026/02/anth...
All good owls! I'd say a great horned owl, or snowy owl. (You wouldn't find a barn owl in the boreal forest. Though they do look awesome, and I'm sure they are magical).
Ok, there are some great songs on the new Mumford & Sons album. Love the collabs with Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon & Gracie Abrams.
“A growing ecumenical movement is reshaping church calendars worldwide. The Feast of Creation — celebrated annually on Sept. 1 and also known as Creation Day or the World Day of Prayer for Creation — is being formally added to the liturgical calendars of many churches”
I'm still sad that Harman's closed! It was the best. But I've had great Ethiopian at Gojo and Mesob too.
Liked the half time show? Check out bad bunny's tiny desk concert. It's fantastic. The part at the end where they're all just jamming... *Chef's kiss* youtu.be/ouuPSxE1hK4?...
We played Scrabble at a local cafe. 🥰
Or if you're a Winnipeg local, a couple years ago A Rocha hosted a series of walks along the Lost Creeks of Winnipeg. I put together a prayer resource so you can do those walks on your own or with a group. You can download it at the bottom of this blog post arocha.ca/drawn-to-won...
If you're looking for a practice to take on for Lent this year, check out Climate Stewards Carbon Fast.
climatestewards.org/resources/ca...
This is the heart of what's wrong with the progressive tendency to sloganize "trust the science" - science is supposed to be a public, evidence-based discourse that people can be educated into. Turning it into a question of trust or belief just introduces a whole set of problems related to authority
If we've learned anything from the part of our history where we created the extremely powerful, world-changing, uncontrollable new technology of a social internet, it should be that whatever is about to happen with AI will, if nothing else, be extremely dumb.
Iconic
Not me sitting at my desk crying after Gilles and Poirier finish their free dance. 😭 Gosh that was a gorgeous program.
"When I get into these funks, it’s like I start believing that climate change is something separate from state violence—and it’s not."
Same! They've moved on to Cold F/X now, which I think is ginseng. I tried it last time I got sick and my cold was pretty mild, but who knows if that's because of the cold fx or something else.
A little bit of good news for birds in Winnipeg. Our collective action worked and city council is keeping the bird friendly window by-law!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
Tomorrow I get to preach about how cool pigeons are, and I'm very excited. May be a hot take, but pigeons are a much better image for the Holy Spirit than doves.
A very low budget production of "cyber kids". A hacker is trying to take over the world so a group of kids magically go into a computer (like the magic school bus) to defeat him. I got to be one of the hacker's robot minions. Peak 1998.
That's good to know. I haven't used it much because I'm currently working through a stack of physical books. I just got excited to discover what's on it. I'll have to see how it goes.
That's a good question. I'm not sure! But I also use a kobo so I'd be curious to find out.
I created a tag in Libby where I put all the books that don't fit on my holds list. It has over 100 books on it. 😅
Do you know about hoopla? They added so many books and ebooks recently.
Yup. Discovered this the other day too and was very sad. I'm at 39/20 holds at the moment.
I really firmly believe that getting on with normal good work done to the best of our abilities is a valid form of resistance to the death and despair dealing powers of our world.
