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Bugs Bunny Stole My Cognitive Surplus!

July 27, 2010

Bugs Bunny’s first appearance, July 27th, 1940, was nominated for an academy award.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Mind & Society|| Visions & Ventures|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Bugs Bunny, Cognitive Surplus, Culture, History, Holidays, Psychology, Television
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Gaylord Nelson at Wyaslung State Park

Madison Reads Leopold, 2010

March 6, 2010

“Yearly, the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life….”

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Environment, Holidays, Reading Aloud, Spring
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Remebering Labor, Entering Rest

September 7, 2009

To truly make this a holiday, to truly rest in praise of the goodness, truth, & beauty of Labor Day, requires contemplation.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| History|| Sociology
Tagged With: Canada, Economics, History, Holidays, Mind & Society, Science & Technology, Slavery, Visual Arts, Work
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Connected Worlds|| Hearts & Minds|| History|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace
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For the True Book Lover

April 1, 2009

Do you miss the smell of books? This is for you!

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: April Fool, Book Arts, e-books, ereader, Holidays, Smell of Books
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Joy to the World (Bruce Cockburn)

December 22, 2008

Bruce Cockburn’s Christmas is a tradition around here. Thanks to Quercus126 for providing this rendition. If you want to hear it played by the man himself, it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YF8nH7J0o

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Bruce Cockburn, Christmas, Guitar, Holidays, Music, Video
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