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Today’s Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup was an entertaining show-and-tell session of our favorite pens. 🖋️📓🗂️ We ran out of time, so part two will be next month. Let me know if you’d like to join us!

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My friend and I, seated outside with half-melted hazelnut lattes. Bees start buzzing around us. Smiles across the table: we love bees. One alights on my labradorite ring, crawls into the dark cool space between thumb and forefinger, tiny footsteps tickling my palm.

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The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed. 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let me know!

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Some days the gap between the leader I want to be and the leader I currently am is so wide, and it hurts. This is also true for the gap between the writer I want to be and the writer I currently am. And pretty much everything else in my life.

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😶 I seem to have forgotten how to write online.

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Mandy Patinkin in concert last night! 🎵 This musical theatre nerd’s heart is full. His interpretation of “Wandering Boy” by Randy Newman moved me to tears. And more tears when he sang Lyle Lovett’s “If I Had a Boat”, a song I love dearly.

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After @bapsi mentioned Jillian Hess' “Re-Noted: 6 Ways to Use a Diary”, I got completely stuck on Lynda Barry’s basic quick diary format. I grabbed my copy of “Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor” and I’m adapting this format in my Hobonichi Weeks.

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Another interesting, thoughtful, and fun Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup this morning! 🖋️📓🗂️ We talked about hybrid analog/digital tools and processes, how friction can help slow thoughts down, and much more.

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Saturday nosh on yesterday’s baking project. 🍞 FunkyPlaid served the soda bread with two excellent condiments: maple orange cranberry spread and ube (purple yam) spread, both from Trader Joe’s, the ultimate snackiverse.

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Today’s baking project: Fig and Caramelized Onion Soda Bread from Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple by Aran Goyoaga 📚 I don’t recall making soda bread before today, but this turned out great! 🍞 I appreciate how it’s basically a giant scone.

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Four years ago today, I made the difficult and necessary call to shut the library. I had been the director for just over eight months. I went home, drained yet resolved, and had no idea what would happen next. And then everything else happened.

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Currently reading: Molly by Blake Butler 📚 I’m used to being upset by what I read; I prefer it to indifference. But this … I can’t decide if I’m feeling the “good” upset or the upset I felt when I watched “Funny Games”, complicit in witnessing a horrible inevitable.

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Recently I backslid into my hyperfocused “quantified self” ways and started tracking various metrics with apps again. As a result, my anxiety has ramped up considerably, and I feel like I’m doing more tracking than living. 😔 Time to delete some apps.

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The real question on everyone’s minds after watching “Death and Other Details”: Was Rufus Cotesworth writing in a brown passport-size Traveler’s Notebook with an extra-wide elastic? (Yes, I am super-fun to watch TV shows with.)

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After eight years in Portland, I finally made it onto the Portland Spirit for a river cruise.

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The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed. 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let me know!

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While walking to dinner tonight, a friend and I were screamed at repeatedly by someone walking behind us. Before I started working in public libraries, this would have thrown me. Tonight it wasn’t even a footnote (aside from this, of course).