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I Might Be a Puzzle Person

Happy Holidays, everyone! Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. I never thought of myself as a puzzle person, so this is unusual for me. How did I get here? I blame work. In the office, we have a square table surrounded on two sides by booth-like seats. One of our staff members brought in a puzzle and plopped it on the table for everyone to do…

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Dyani White Hawk Exhibit

A quick post for today. I went with several family members to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis yesterday. It was a free children’s day, so there were multiple activities set up for kids throughout the museum. We started out with one of the museum’s current exhibits, Love Language by Dyani White Hawk. The artist’s ancestry is Lakota and European American and her multidisciplinary work is a mesmerizing blend of cultures, with her Native heritage…

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Leaf Litter for Tiny Critters

We got a fair amount of snow in the Twin Cities metro yesterday. Judging by how much I shoveled off the deck, I’d say around 4 inches that was light and easy to move. It was preceded by rain a couple days before, which was a good thing. We’ve been in drought conditions and, as a friend of mine always says, we needed the rain. It’s been unseasonably mild this fall, with temps in the…

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