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A day with Ishiguro, Morrison, Dickens, and Joyce. #111Words #KazuoIshiguro #NeverLetMeGo #ToniMorrison #TheBluestEye #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #Novels #Fiction #Literature #CloseReading https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-day-with-ishiguro-morrison-dickens.html
Please help us out, my overdrafts and cards are maxed out from bills and I need funds for keeping us safe and fed, and making any progress on the #vulpibus - and Inamruzui is unwell.
#mutualaid is very needed right now.
#fundingrequest
#skoolie
#emergencyfunds
#debttrap
#hardtimes
#homeless
#helpfolkslive2025
#transinneed
#otherkininneed
#moneyhelp
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Cash in person and barter, trade and gifts of what we need are also options we can work with.
Yes we are looking into food banks.
ACH is no longer advised.
These are #HardTimes for a lot of people in a lot of ways! Stunned, angry, fearful and more are natural reactions. Make your #voice heard, express your feelings and your needs, but let's not lose #love #hope #compassion in the chaos. Sending a hug to brothers and sisters around the world! #SolaceInNature #solidarity #unity #CanadaStrong
Counting to high numbers and reciting poems to suppress evil thoughts in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854). #111Words #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #Poetry #Counting #Recitation #Memorization https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/counting-to-high-numbers-and-reciting.html
Teaching four sections of a course in a week – and improvising a summary of the Bible. #111Words #Teaching #TheBible #CharlesDickens #HardTimes https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/teaching-four-sections-of-course-in.html
#Tarot underneath/shadow card of evening: Queen of Wands.
That new project? Keep working at it. Nurture new skills, you may need them down the road, especially in these #HardTimes.
Who can find the hummingbird on its nest in these photos? Small things in nature help get you through hard times. I didn’t expect a hummingbird to nest on the Christmas lights I didn’t take down. Apologies for the terrible quality images. I took it from inside the house so I wouldn’t scare the mama off the nest. #birds #hardtimes
#Tarot card of evening: The Emperor-IV.
Help is not coming anytime soon, so embrace your power and help yourself and those close to you in the #HardTimes. Take control and initiative because no one is going to do it for you.
A couple of my recent smuggies.
Still smug, still strawmanny.
Still criticism of statu quo lazy thinking.
Still bilingual en/fr.
Darker themes than usual.
I guess the pastel phase is not going away.
Yay colors!
The Lost Dogs - Hard Times Come Again No More
Released in 1992
[4/8]
November 2024 I started to listen to versions of #HardTimes (come again no more) in chronological order (thanks to @WH and @Leepvogel).
It is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster. It was published in NYC by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28.
The first audio recording was a wax cylinder by the Edison Manufacturing Company (Edison Gold Moulded 9120) in 1905. It has been recorded and performed numerous times since. The song is Roud Folk Song Index #2659.
#HardTimes (Continuing the chronological 'visit' of recorded versions of this song, that started on my previous 'deleted' account.)
Bob Dylan - Hard Times
Released in 1992
40 years ago
Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins, Hard Times Zine, October 1984
Flashback to the '90s:
Snap - The Power
I heard this song yesterday on the radio. It reminded me of the first time I'd heard it on a cassette player in my room when I spent my summers studying in Reading (UK).
I jolted when I read that it was released in 1990, I was 15, and that wasn't my first summer alone in the UK. I was 13 when I started studying abroad. I was very young, yet I managed on my own.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3P5dVXm98CgVuEpcW2HsUk?si=9da44a87e2a34dfc
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/2ghost/snap-the-power
30,000 years of history reveals that hard times boost human societies' resilience
https://www.livescience.com/human-behavior/30000-years-of-history-reveals-that-hard-times-boost-human-societies-resilience #archaeology #HardTimes #resilience #society #downturn #recovery
My students and the animal imagery in a passage about Mr. Bounderby in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854). #111Words #MrBounderby #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #Literature #Fiction #Teaching https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-students-and-animal-imagery-in.html
#Tarot card of evening: The Fool-0.
Not easy to do in the #HardTimes, but embrace the optimism and sense of wonder from The Fool. If you have a decision to make, choose the bold option. After all, Fortune favors the bold.