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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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.