Curious Wayfarer

Well over half a century, going strong & still learning

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I have never heard a more Irish dad at Sunday dinner joke. At least in my family.

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this sounds like a party to me

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American libraries continue to be targeted by Trump and his cronies. Via the American Library Association:

The White House has once again used its budget request to attempt to eliminate funding for critical library programs. We have the opportunity right now to urge Congress to reject that request by including robust funding for library services in next year’s budget (FY27). Senators only have until April 17 to add their signatures to letters asking Senate budget leaders to support funding priorities (like library services), so we need them to act now. Make a call today to urge both your Senators to sign onto the letters in support of the Library Services and Technology Act, operated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program, administered within the Department of Education! As always, please consider taking a few seconds to personalize the call script.

Find & Call Your Senators (+ sample script)

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Running lasts ~2 steps 🥃💃

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News About C.J. Cherryh

She posted this on her Facebook Saturday evening, April 25, 2026:

"Dear readers and friends. The unhappy fact is---the numerous bouts of anaesthetic I've had have made it pretty well impossible for me to write. I drop stitches. Not many. No problems with daily life or doing creative stuff or enjoying life in general. But the ability to control narrative is just not what it was, and it's just not going to be there. I've accepted that, painful as it is. I thank all of you who've stood by me patiently. The body of work is what it is, and I am lastingly grateful to my publisher, Betsy Wollheim, who has given me every extension of time and resource. And of course to Jane, who is all things."

[Jane Fancher has been her companion and co-author for many years, and more recently her wife as well.]

Her stories have occupied my mind for decades now, ever since a university classmate introduced me to The Faded Sun series. Large parts of my heart are owned by Pyanfar Chanur and her clan and associates as well as by the Hellburner Four and their long-suffering program officer Jurgen Graff.

It's the end of an era.

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