And you know how they say the past it is a foreign country
Rabbit, rabbit!
1. My poem "Twenty Seventy-One" has been accepted by Uncanny Magazine. It was written in late January, the night![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gwynnega linked an article about the spiking sales of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). The next morning the details of 45's anti-Muslim executive order were leaked and three days later it was signed into effect and that weekend I was protesting in Copley Square. Julia Rios, when she accepted the poem, said she had hoped "it would magically stop being relevant." It is among other things a ghost poem for George Orwell.
2. My poem "The Warm Past" is now online at Mythic Delirium. There are notes included with this one, but it's a science poem and a ghost poem and a poem for my niece and deep time. The title comes from a pair of earrings by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
elisem. I am thinking of sending a copy to the National Museum of Natural History, to tell them how much their ancient seas meant to me.
3. I spent most of last night in a state of extreme emotional upset due to nothing obvious except the general state of the nation, so I tried to make note of non-upsetting things when I found them. This is a debate over pastry that takes a hard right turn into Wittgenstein and gender. This is a Tumblr full of very sweet, mostly two-panel comics that remind me of Sandra Boynton. And this is a wonderful article about genetics and human variability. After the "another species" tag line, I said toderspatchel, "It sounds like it should be about yeti, of course, but it isn't going to be," and then it kind of was. I love these very old echoes, alive in people to this day. Neanderthals. Denisovans. Unknown archaic populations. Other ways of being human.
The weather outside is mild, grey, and springlike. At least we're technically in the right month for it now.
1. My poem "Twenty Seventy-One" has been accepted by Uncanny Magazine. It was written in late January, the night
gwynnega linked an article about the spiking sales of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). The next morning the details of 45's anti-Muslim executive order were leaked and three days later it was signed into effect and that weekend I was protesting in Copley Square. Julia Rios, when she accepted the poem, said she had hoped "it would magically stop being relevant." It is among other things a ghost poem for George Orwell.2. My poem "The Warm Past" is now online at Mythic Delirium. There are notes included with this one, but it's a science poem and a ghost poem and a poem for my niece and deep time. The title comes from a pair of earrings by
elisem. I am thinking of sending a copy to the National Museum of Natural History, to tell them how much their ancient seas meant to me.3. I spent most of last night in a state of extreme emotional upset due to nothing obvious except the general state of the nation, so I tried to make note of non-upsetting things when I found them. This is a debate over pastry that takes a hard right turn into Wittgenstein and gender. This is a Tumblr full of very sweet, mostly two-panel comics that remind me of Sandra Boynton. And this is a wonderful article about genetics and human variability. After the "another species" tag line, I said to
derspatchel, "It sounds like it should be about yeti, of course, but it isn't going to be," and then it kind of was. I love these very old echoes, alive in people to this day. Neanderthals. Denisovans. Unknown archaic populations. Other ways of being human.The weather outside is mild, grey, and springlike. At least we're technically in the right month for it now.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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And that tumblr of two-panel comics is very cheering; thank you for that.
Congratulations on the new poem acceptance (and deep empathy on your mood...)
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I will try first to contact them on Facebook; I'm sure they have a Twitter, but that does me no good; I might also try sending them a nicely printed copy in the mail. I wanted to say something when the poem was accepted, but then I thought I should wait until I could show them the published object.
And that tumblr of two-panel comics is very cheering; thank you for that.
You're welcome! At the moment my favorites are the best group costume and the frilled-neck Valentine.
Congratulations on the new poem acceptance (and deep empathy on your mood...)
Thank you.
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That's lovely.
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Thank you. Feel free to share if you feel like it; it's published now.
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I really liked the repeated photographs of the ginormous one.
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Thank you. It's a very weird feeling!
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Oh, do please send your poem to the museum. It's a good year to thank our museums and libraries for their nurture.
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Good. Those are seasonal. The rest of this malarkey isn't.
Oh, do please send your poem to the museum. It's a good year to thank our museums and libraries for their nurture.
Since the poem was published online, it seems easiest to send them a link, but I am thinking that some kind of hardcopy would also be useful. I just need to figure out the appropriate point of contact.
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I think that's very neat! How did you find out the percentage?
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https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product/genographic-2.0-kits/geno-2.0-next-generation-genographic-dna-ancestry-kit--canadian-delivery
and it was pretty interesting, I am of the Yasmin line, and I am such a white girl on my matralineal ... but I had my brothers son do the same test and you can see why it was so sucessful, like "hey you have a pulse!" on my patrilineal line. A very friendly DNA ... grin. I knew that we had a lot of Celtic DNA, and some Native American, but there were a few surprizes. Our Bohemian shows up as Romanian/Bulgarian.
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See, I think it's really cool that your family stories were accurate and relatively complete. How far back could you match the stories with the analysis?
It was kind of cool to find a relative who had an unusual but familiar-looking last name that I couldn't quite place, but eventually tracked down as being the name of one of the family farms in Norway.
That is great. May I ask?
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The farm name was Jonsaas.
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