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Friday Cats, on Thursday

 
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The person who lives with these cats is very, very tired.

While she rests, entertain yourselves at the Carnival of the Cats, the Carnival of the Dogs, and Friday Ark.

Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging on Yellowstone Public Radio

From Yellowstone Public Radio:

Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging

a live call-in
Tuesday, March 29, 7pm (that's TODAY!)
call 657.2941 or 800.441.2941

Join YPR New Media Manager Ken Siebert for an hour-long panel discussion about blogs: what they are, who's doing it, and what it means for traditional journalism and the Internet. The discussion will also feature the community of Montana bloggers and what they're saying about the state and the people who live here.

Guests include Ed Kemmick of the Billings Gazette, Billings Outpost Editor David Crisp, Craig Sprout, who runs the mtpolitics.net blog, and Karen Hergenrider, who runs the karbonkountymoos blog. Listener comments and questions are welcome throughout the program.

In honor of the event, for Moos, and courtesy of the sassy Tild ~, we have the new, feisty Calamity She-Blogger. I'm guessing that she may be added to the She-Blogger product line.

Up in the corner of the Yellowstone Public Radio site, I see a Listen Online notice; I assume this means we can listen to the program, even if we are not in Billings. I've never used my computer for this before, so I plan to test it out this afternoon.

I know that Karen, Craig, David, and Ed will do us proud; we have a wide range of politics, opinion, and style here. And I'm pleased that YPR responded promptly to requests for a bit more gender diversity on the panel. My guess is, though I don't know for sure, that all are white. I had a brief fantasy that Moos might be Jamaican or something, but judging from these photos, I would imagine not.

Note, however, that the issue of diversity in the blogosphere is a different (and more difficult) issue, than the easily resolved challenge for conferences, panels, and news reports (and blogrolls) to represent the diversity that already exists.

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distance

proximity

the shadow
cast by snow

falling

the slow
flow
of glass

its response
to gravity

the leaf turns
to the sun

Happy Easter

For those of you who have flash enabled, an Easter Bunny for your amusement (use your mouse):

adopt your own virtual pet!

Spring Crocus & Creativity

   
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From Blue Pastures:

Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart -- to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again.

But just as often, if not more often, the interruption comes not from another but from the self itself, or some other self within the self, that whistles and pounds upon the door panels and tosses itself, splashing, into the pond of meditation. And what does it have to say? That you must phone the dentist, that you are out of mustard, that your uncle Stanley's birthday is two weeks hence. You react, of course, Then you return to your work, only to find that the imps of idea have fled back into the mist.

Mary Oliver