RachelCoyne

The more art I make, the more books I read, the more stories I tell, the saner I feel.

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Gmar hatimah tovah. May your fast be easy

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There aren’t enough leaves about for “leaf of the day” yet, but this early bloomer is lovely

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Some reading that isn’t research!!!

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Tomorrow I get paid, so I already have my list of books to buy. JR has a project on elves for me and I have my usual obsessions

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Pride flag and one of the Black Lives Matter flags torn down again. Makes me sad - we’re on the school bus route and it’s the first, tough week of school. It will be a few days before the new ones come in.

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Sept 8th is #NativeWomensEqualPayDay. Native women make 60 cents on average for every dollar a white male makes

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On the left is my pile of finished research books. On the right is the TBR pile. Researching the Great War era in MN has been intense. It’s too much like today - out of control wild fires, the Klan/evangelicals coming for independent women, BIPOC struggles for basic human rights, the end of a pointless war, immigration controversies.

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This book was absolutely devastating. Nauseating. The level of betrayal is so absolute and overwhelming

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Tonight’s reading material - it’s a whole series and it gives different newspaper reports of odd moments in Mn history.

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Phase 3 research pile. A few days ago I called a vaccine and “inoculation” because my brain is all 1920’s at the moment

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Late blooming morning glory. I’ve been growing these since Sid was 5 - everyday before school he’d go out onto the balcony and count how many flowers had bloomed that day. They have always seemed a little magical to me

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The writing is going so well, but I took the day off. I’m telling myself just because I can work A LOT, doesn’t mean I should

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1961 New York Time Coookbook. This is the appetizer.

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The 1961 New York Times Cookbook was a $1.50 thrift store score. It’s a little classier than the “homemade” cookbooks I usually find at rummage sales for Sunday porch reading. The first chapter is on caviar

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Peach jam on ice cream might have made the jam making worth it