Drunk Raisins & Coffee

I can both read and write.

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Listening to gunfire as bear hunting winds down in Western Colorado. 🐻 😞

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Nap time.

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Saturday night special.

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Where to get your Girl Scout Cookies:

Just a reminder that if you are someone who wants to eat Girl Scout Cookies, and you don't have local Girl Scouts to buy them from, and you are realising you can just go online and get them from the Internet, Troop 6000 is...

"...a first-of-its-kind program designed to serve families living in temporary housing in the New York City shelter system.

"Each week, Girl Scouts meet in shelters across the city to take part in activities that help them make new friends, earn badges, and learn to see themselves as leaders. All fees, uniforms, trips, and program materials are provided at no cost.

"As a permanent fixture of the program, we also established the Troop 6000 Transition Initiative, which supports Girl Scouts and their families as they transition to permanent housing. The average stay for a family in a city shelter is 18 months. Remaining connected to the community and opportunities introduced to them through Troop 6000 can help facilitate a successful transition for girls and young people, and it is essential they continue to receive the financial support that allows them to do so."

Click on the link to learn about it and order cookies.

Troop 6000

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I don't give a shit as long as those in need benefit

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Nicole McGaa combined her Indigenous knowledge with engineering to build a rocket

McGaa, who is Oglala Lakota, entered her fourth year of undergraduate studies in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

In April 2023, she led MIT’s all-Indigenous rocket team to the 2023 First Nations Launch National Rocket Competition, an annual contest organized by NASA.

Our team operates in a unique way. We have a distributed leadership structure that prioritizes relationship building and taking care of each other. Even during intense periods and crunch weeks, we created a culture of community in which people felt supported and free to declare their other commitments, so that their teammates could accommodate them.

McGaa tells Nature about how she and her team incorporated Indigenous values into their work, why they smudged their rocket before launching it into the skies and her dreams to help astronauts to stay healthy in space.

In what other ways did you blend Indigenous values into your engineering?

To me, an Indigenous perspective is one that is based in intentionality and community, especially when considering space-flight applications. So, for example, I built the rocket with respect and with a purpose that was rooted in the concept of furthering my team’s understanding of flight principles so that we could become more skilled engineers. That meant taking the time to consider alternatives, and to include everyone’s opinion in technical design choices. I wanted to allow the younger members to make mistakes, as long as we were all learning. Efficiency was inherent in our design: we minimized the material used, and our rocket was low weight. Such efficiency is a feature of care and avoiding excess — key Indigenous principles.

Our project and others like it will set a precedent at MIT that will help Indigenous students to bridge their identity with their engineering aspirations and career goals. I encourage other Indigenous students to be brave, approach your projects with courage and try incorporating your identity and values into your work.

The Indigenous rocketeer

Nicole McGaa combined Indigenous knowledge with engineering to build a rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.

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I did my youthful backpacking thing back in the ancient times of 2002 and met a young waiter at a restaurant who was tending his six year old boy in between serving tables. The kid had had polio earlier in life and had stick-thin legs with permanently atrophied muscles. In other words, his legs would never walk, ever. The waiter was working long hours to save up enough money for a surgery that might give his legs some movement back. The surgery would cost $600....about how much my backpack and hiking boots cost combined.

There are pockets in the world where polio and other crippling, potentially fatal diseases still thrive and strike. Pockets were parents would give anything to have vaccines for their kids.

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February is also National Embroidery Month, and we’re excited to show you some cool items we have in the Special Collections. The first one is a hand-embroidered canvas book made by Candace Hicks who collects coincidences from the books she reads and gathers them in her artists’ books and installations.

Hicks created a variant series of hand-embroidered books, copying the form and design of dime-store "composition" books. In this volume, Hicks kept a record of coincidences in the books she was reading and noted every time the word “coincidence” occurred.

Common threads : Volume 28 Hicks, Candace [Austin, Tex. : C. Hicks,] 2011. English HOLLIS number: 990128839780203941

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Starbucks Singapore's merch is always so gorgeous. I wish they would do the same for US merch. Do we not deserve nice things too?

The irony is that I don't ever go to Starbucks anymore, but the local coffee shop where I do hang out does appreciate the unique merch!

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Pepper looking very Pepper.

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Because I can't imagine Christmas without Billy Idol on the turntable.

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My local coffee shop's Christmas tradition is freshly made mimosas. I look forward to it all year long! 🍾 🎄 🎁

Then of course, coffee. I'm not a monster.

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#RWRunStreak Day 5

Tried a new route. Won't make that mistake again!

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#RWRunStreak Day #4

This time I ran with Mary Ann. She's really not a great running companion (she criss crosses a LOT and is too reactive) but for a mile, we can manage!

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Run Streak Day 3

Cows!