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Back at New Year's tormenta observed that as a community, we seem to have one core observance of any occasion: we get together and eat and spend time with each other.

Now, I don't think she was complaining, and I sure don't think that sharing food and company is a bad way to do things, but there are other community and cultural activities that I want to ( Read more... )

Re-posted from Facebook:

Emma-Lee records Magical Flying Bathtub Machine

Notwithstanding my own questioning whether Emma Lee and the singer-songwiter ilk really count as "folk" musicians ...

( and other ruminations, shared by many others, about the nature of folk music. )

The Uruguayan government just approved a bill to allow same sex couples to adopt children:

The bill was approved 17-6, with most of its support coming from legislators of the ruling leftist Frente Amplio coalition, which has a majority in Congress, and from two of the three senators of the opposition Partido Colorado. The measure passed the lower ( Read more... )

Cycling through the valley, this morning, I noticed the unmistakable squoodgy feeling of an incipient flat in my rear tire. So I found a long stretch of path through a meadow, where people could see me from both directions, and where there was some space to pull off the path, stopped, and checked ( Read more... )