Leadership and communication lessons from the loon and crane clans in Ojibwe culture #Leadership #Communication #Ojibwe
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Writer. Feminist. Secular humanist. Applied psychologist. 🇳🇴 🪶 Native Northerner. 🪶 🇳🇴 ~~Ojibwe Norwegian Perfection~~ Discover you’re not alone, read with abandon. ☕️Coffee | 📚Books |Dogs 🐶 | Cooking 🍽️
(In honor of August, bringing this 🧵 over from twitter) August makes me think of the best summer restaurant I ever ate at. It didn’t have a name, just a tidy hand-painted sign: “Tomato Sandwiches—all you can eat.” #tomatosandwiches
#TerrierTuesday #DogsOfBlueSky #Dogs #Yorkies Hi, pals…anyone else sick of this heat. Mom says no unnecessary outside activities until it’s cooler. That’s not rain, she says. It’s condensation. I’m sad and stir crazy, there are squirrels that need getting.
Boonigidetaadiwin = Forgiveness [It literally means to release something from the heart for one another.] Ojibwe word of the day! Learning languages is fun and honors our ancestors and future generations. Follow #Ojibwe WOD on YouTube (link in bio)! Miigwech (thank you)! #forgiveness
This story is incredible. I won’t get into all the procedural f ups and the obvious need for the university to prioritize good press over public safety. The way our justice system fails women and minorities is breathtaking.
Joaquin Sapien@jbsapien.bsky.social · 2w agoA few weeks ago, after two years of work, I published a story unlike any I’d encountered in my 18 years at ProPublica. I’ve been off social media for a while, but I felt compelled to share some of my reporting journey here. 🧵
Hey pals, guess who got special puppy sized bacon, egg and cheese biscuits. It was me, Niko. Cause I’m a good boy who is Three whole years old. And whose gotcha day was an entire year ago. Let’s party!! 🎉 🎊 #TerrierTursday #DogsofBluesky #yorkies #Dogs #terriers #gotchaday #birthday
At a roadside kiosk on the reservation, Jackson Ripley and his family blend great coffee and Ojibwe culture together with a bit of magic. Since opening MiigWitches Brew in 2024, they’ve built new community ties and they’re hoping to do more.
Quality coffee, Ojibwe bonds build a business on the Fond du Lac Reservation in NE Minnesota
At a roadside kiosk on the reservation, Jackson Ripley and his family blend great coffee and Ojibwe culture together with a bit of magic. In the process, they’ve built new community ties, and they’re ...
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Happy Pride! Respect has deep roots in Ojibwe culture. 🌈 Full video is on YouTube (link in bio). #HappyPride #Respect #Ojibwe #IndigenousHistory #TwoSpirit #Humanity
Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts The principles of Abuse The failures of racism The Special Snowflake chart The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post...
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do, is re-engage people with their own humanity. Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.” BOTD novelist Barbara Kingsolver 1955 Her latest novel, Partita releases on Oct. 6, 2026 #Booksky
This should be the litmus test, young me was too forgiving.
I hope you slept as peacefully as these young loons captured on film by Harry Collins: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
This is the way Bruce Springsteen opened the E-Street Band tour in Minneapolis last night..... one of three times he took time to talk to the crowd about what's happening in our country. @brucespringsteen #Minneapolis #Minnesota
Cold, rainy April day. White chicken chili, fully dressed. What are you having? #foodsky #cooksky #theoutpost #soup #dinner #wednesdayfood #foodies #cooking 🍽️
A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.
RIP English writer Virginia Woolf, died this day 1941. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
Something people really need to understand about abusive agencies and platforms is this: Predatory systems are not chaotic. They are not random. They are not stupid. They are usually extremely calculated in who they mistreat and who they treat exceptionally well.
Something about butter rolls make me feel taken care of. These are King Arthur recipe, used the dough setting on the Zojirushi, shape and rise, oven bake, hearty spritz of water to keep them rise more before the crust sets for bake. 🍽️ #Bread #BreadSky #FoodSky #FridayFood #CookSky #TheOutpost
