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David Maxwell Memorial Reading Challenge
David Maxwell Memorial Reading Challenge Created by Tiffany Sostar In joyful memory of their dad, David Maxwell: lover, collector, and sharer of books January 12, 1953 – November 30, 2019 Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to...
Light and the Long Night
(An earlier draft of this post was available to Patreon supporters.) cw: death Yesterday was the Winter Solstice, and it was also three weeks since my dad died. It was a hard day. It has been a hard three weeks. It was a hard stretch before that. It has been a...
Trajectories
(content note: death, dying) The photo is of my hand in my dad's hand. I took it on Thursday, as I sat with him. Holding hands will always remind me of what he taught me - three squeezes for "I love you," four squeezes for "I love you, too." I will write this up in...
Great Unexpectations: A Possibilities Calgary event
I'm putting some of the material I've been generating for An Unexpected Light to work in other spaces. I'm proud of this, because one expectation I often apply to myself is that everything must be fresh and new, that it will have less value if it is something I...
Despite the hostile ground: collective project
This new project, which will become a zine or a collective document of some sort, is inspired by a community member who wanted to create a "map" of all the women and non-binary folks who have managed to live a life they want despite not having family support, and...
I didn’t think it would be like this: a zine about politics
The other day I responded to a post about politics and said: I feel like the last couple years have really pushed me away from the faith I had in electoral politics, and there are times when I feel so much grief for losing that thread of hope. Most of the time I...
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