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@windinthepines.bsky.social
lover of cheeses, squashes, monasteries, meeses, oceans, and stars • neurodivergent gender-creative gen-xer • former esl and tribal educator • south dakotan • spouse of @tblive.bsky.social
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And he’s not Javert or Valjean. He’s Thénardier.
June 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
And he’s not Javert or Valjean. He’s Thénardier.
From Texas to DC. 2300 miles. With their dog, Aloka. One monk had his leg amputated in hospital after he was hit by a car. Rohatsu/Bodhi Day is Dec 8, when Gotama touched the Earth under the Bodhi Tree and attained enlightenment. Praying for the Peacewalkers this morning.🙏📿☸️🕉️OM Shanti Shanti Shanti.
A group of nineteen Buddhist monks is on a "Walk for Peace" pilgrimage traveling on foot to Washington, D.C.
The monks are walking across the country to pray for peace in America and for all mankind are scheduled to arrive in Natchez, Mississippi on Friday, December 5, 2025.
#WalkforPeace #Monks
The monks are walking across the country to pray for peace in America and for all mankind are scheduled to arrive in Natchez, Mississippi on Friday, December 5, 2025.
#WalkforPeace #Monks
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
From Texas to DC. 2300 miles. With their dog, Aloka. One monk had his leg amputated in hospital after he was hit by a car. Rohatsu/Bodhi Day is Dec 8, when Gotama touched the Earth under the Bodhi Tree and attained enlightenment. Praying for the Peacewalkers this morning.🙏📿☸️🕉️OM Shanti Shanti Shanti.
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This story is me trying to come to terms with feeling 'useless' (I mean, not in the face of apocalypse, just in the face of... everything, life, whatever) and realizing that no one is useless. We might not be fighting, we might not be defending, but we DO have a role to play in the world, always.💖
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This story is me trying to come to terms with feeling 'useless' (I mean, not in the face of apocalypse, just in the face of... everything, life, whatever) and realizing that no one is useless. We might not be fighting, we might not be defending, but we DO have a role to play in the world, always.💖
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Trump’s obsession with demonizing Somali Minnesotans is creepy.
We are not leaving and we will not stop fighting for a country that welcomes all of us.
My full interview with NPR⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
We are not leaving and we will not stop fighting for a country that welcomes all of us.
My full interview with NPR⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Ilhan Omar says Trump attacks on Somali immigrants 'deflect attention' from scrutiny
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's tirade against Somali immigrants.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trump’s obsession with demonizing Somali Minnesotans is creepy.
We are not leaving and we will not stop fighting for a country that welcomes all of us.
My full interview with NPR⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
We are not leaving and we will not stop fighting for a country that welcomes all of us.
My full interview with NPR⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Reading through apocryphal Nativity Gospels this holiday season: currently the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. I really need to write a Substack on the fascinating traditions of Mary's date palm tree! 🌴
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reading through apocryphal Nativity Gospels this holiday season: currently the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. I really need to write a Substack on the fascinating traditions of Mary's date palm tree! 🌴
And according to Buddhist ideas, what these people will be reborn as in their next rebirths are also equally bleak. But perhaps after many lifetimes even they might attain liberation and become dedicated Bodhisattvas who will engage in the transformative teaching of all beings to end all suffering.
Hegseth and co may never face temporal consequences
That doesn’t mean they’re avoiding all consequences…
That doesn’t mean they’re avoiding all consequences…
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
And according to Buddhist ideas, what these people will be reborn as in their next rebirths are also equally bleak. But perhaps after many lifetimes even they might attain liberation and become dedicated Bodhisattvas who will engage in the transformative teaching of all beings to end all suffering.
Five local shops to decide?! My hometown back in the 80s had a grocery store, a bank, 2 gas stations, a drug store, a handcrafted clock shop, a hardware store, a lumber company, and an apparel store. Now it only has 1 gas station, the hardware store, and the bank. The Internet is the way!
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Five local shops to decide?! My hometown back in the 80s had a grocery store, a bank, 2 gas stations, a drug store, a handcrafted clock shop, a hardware store, a lumber company, and an apparel store. Now it only has 1 gas station, the hardware store, and the bank. The Internet is the way!
They believe in the White Jesus and the White God of colonialism and Christendom, the punishing, predestinating God of Melville's "Moby-Dick," the God Which, as D. H. Lawrence understood, "sank the ship of the Great White Soul in 1851." Now, we suffer its "post-mortem effects, presumably."
I have to believe these people don’t actually believe in God because if they did they wouldn’t be so cavalier with such blatant blasphemy.
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
They believe in the White Jesus and the White God of colonialism and Christendom, the punishing, predestinating God of Melville's "Moby-Dick," the God Which, as D. H. Lawrence understood, "sank the ship of the Great White Soul in 1851." Now, we suffer its "post-mortem effects, presumably."
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First Community Potluck!
6 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 2025
Hosted at 1921 Building at 601 4th Street in the second floor community room.
Everyone is invited to our first community potluck!
See next comment for more info. 1/2
6 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 2025
Hosted at 1921 Building at 601 4th Street in the second floor community room.
Everyone is invited to our first community potluck!
See next comment for more info. 1/2
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
First Community Potluck!
6 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 2025
Hosted at 1921 Building at 601 4th Street in the second floor community room.
Everyone is invited to our first community potluck!
See next comment for more info. 1/2
6 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 2025
Hosted at 1921 Building at 601 4th Street in the second floor community room.
Everyone is invited to our first community potluck!
See next comment for more info. 1/2
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
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you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
The effect of Plotinus and Neo-Platonism on Christianity and Christian monasticism has led to many of us erringly thinking spirituality and holiness means living alone in a hollow tree, a cave, a mountain, a windswept island, or within our own minds.
Creation may be, for now and the bits we can see, marred, but it’s not an accident and we believe God made it and loves it. The flight of the alone to the alone is not, after all, Christian. 5/11
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The effect of Plotinus and Neo-Platonism on Christianity and Christian monasticism has led to many of us erringly thinking spirituality and holiness means living alone in a hollow tree, a cave, a mountain, a windswept island, or within our own minds.
Advent, Day 4. The Jesse Tree now has 3 ornaments. (We'll put the 4th one on tonight.) This little tree's branches will be packed with ornaments by the time we put the 27th ornament on the eve of December 24th!
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Advent, Day 4. The Jesse Tree now has 3 ornaments. (We'll put the 4th one on tonight.) This little tree's branches will be packed with ornaments by the time we put the 27th ornament on the eve of December 24th!
Christmas Tree?✅
Creche?✅
Inside Christmas lights?✅
Christmas Moose?✅
Christmas Gnome?✅
Accidentally hanging the outside lights backwards and forgetting to check to see if they actually work (they don't).... Umm.... ✅😞
Creche?✅
Inside Christmas lights?✅
Christmas Moose?✅
Christmas Gnome?✅
Accidentally hanging the outside lights backwards and forgetting to check to see if they actually work (they don't).... Umm.... ✅😞
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Christmas Tree?✅
Creche?✅
Inside Christmas lights?✅
Christmas Moose?✅
Christmas Gnome?✅
Accidentally hanging the outside lights backwards and forgetting to check to see if they actually work (they don't).... Umm.... ✅😞
Creche?✅
Inside Christmas lights?✅
Christmas Moose?✅
Christmas Gnome?✅
Accidentally hanging the outside lights backwards and forgetting to check to see if they actually work (they don't).... Umm.... ✅😞
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
A happy Rohatsu Sesshin to all who practice! 📿🙏☸️🪷🕉️ 臘八
#BodhiDay2025
#BodhiDay2025
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A happy Rohatsu Sesshin to all who practice! 📿🙏☸️🪷🕉️ 臘八
#BodhiDay2025
#BodhiDay2025
Just like the Kenner Star Wars Early Bird Certificate back in December 1977 (with figures promised to arrive on your doorstep by February 1978.
www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
Why You Can’t Buy ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Toys This Christmas
Where can you buy KPop Demon Hunters toys? If you cannot find them anywhere on the internet, there's a reason for that.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just like the Kenner Star Wars Early Bird Certificate back in December 1977 (with figures promised to arrive on your doorstep by February 1978.
www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
Looking for a Nativity set for my daughter. So many really awful ones out there. And then, finding this nearly perfect* one and almost dropping my phone in amazement because it has Mary’s palm tree! 🌴💜
(* only nearly perfect because it is missing at least one shepherd and one sheep) #advent2025
(* only nearly perfect because it is missing at least one shepherd and one sheep) #advent2025
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Looking for a Nativity set for my daughter. So many really awful ones out there. And then, finding this nearly perfect* one and almost dropping my phone in amazement because it has Mary’s palm tree! 🌴💜
(* only nearly perfect because it is missing at least one shepherd and one sheep) #advent2025
(* only nearly perfect because it is missing at least one shepherd and one sheep) #advent2025
A Blessed First Sunday of Advent! 💜🕯️ Growing up Catholic, we decorated both a Catholic Jesse Tree (always a bare, dead branch) and a Lutheran Christmas Tree🎄. These days, I use a small evergreen tree. Advent is the one season of the year when I get my childhood Catholicism out of storage.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A Blessed First Sunday of Advent! 💜🕯️ Growing up Catholic, we decorated both a Catholic Jesse Tree (always a bare, dead branch) and a Lutheran Christmas Tree🎄. These days, I use a small evergreen tree. Advent is the one season of the year when I get my childhood Catholicism out of storage.
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.
- Tiger Salamander
- Banana Slug
- Velvet Ant
- Moose
- Bald Eagle
- Tiger Salamander
- Banana Slug
- Velvet Ant
- Moose
- Bald Eagle
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.
- Tiger Salamander
- Banana Slug
- Velvet Ant
- Moose
- Bald Eagle
- Tiger Salamander
- Banana Slug
- Velvet Ant
- Moose
- Bald Eagle
Me (singing): "Everybody is Kung Fu fighting."
Daughter, aged 7: "Daddy, nobody is Kung Fu fighting."
Daughter, aged 7: "Daddy, nobody is Kung Fu fighting."
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Me (singing): "Everybody is Kung Fu fighting."
Daughter, aged 7: "Daddy, nobody is Kung Fu fighting."
Daughter, aged 7: "Daddy, nobody is Kung Fu fighting."
It's the most wonderful time of the year! (Well, with the exception of autumn... 🍂🍁)
❄️⛄🎄🧣🌰🍪🍊🕯️
❄️⛄🎄🧣🌰🍪🍊🕯️
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year! (Well, with the exception of autumn... 🍂🍁)
❄️⛄🎄🧣🌰🍪🍊🕯️
❄️⛄🎄🧣🌰🍪🍊🕯️
As someone from South Dakota who personally knows many Somali-Americans who have moved to South Dakota from Minnesota, I can say beyond any doubt that our two neighboring states, and our local communities, are greatly enriched by their presence.
"Dear Hatemongers, We Aren't Going Back"
Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...
Trump, Stephen Miller, & MAGA have already lost. No matter how hard they try to send people of color "back" to our "third world countries," there are just too many of us. We're here & we're winning.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatem...
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
As someone from South Dakota who personally knows many Somali-Americans who have moved to South Dakota from Minnesota, I can say beyond any doubt that our two neighboring states, and our local communities, are greatly enriched by their presence.