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  1. Apr 2024
  2. Feb 2024
    1. Force your ideas onto someone else, force your culture on someone else, instead of respecting and acknowledging other people’s culture.

      This is so real. What she is saying. I know first hand what it is like to be forced into something and it is not a good feeling. I like what she said about just showing respect instead, it really is that simple. The honesty in how she talks is very real. I appreciate real. Being is real about things like this is important to learning how things were.

    1. d go out clam diggin’ with my grandparents. Whatever beach you were at, if you are at Harwood Island or anywhere where there’s clam beds – and you know, clams are pretty heavy in the shell, so you would have a whole lot of clams

      I used to go clam digging with my extended grandparents and I loved it. It was a little hard at times to get the clams because they would be so far into the sand but it was rewarding when you got some. I loved steamed and smoked clams, so good. I did not know about how they would preserve the clams back then because they did not have freezers. That is cool to know. We would put them in a little steamer basket and put in on a rack over the fire.

    1. They would just squish the berries and pour them on flat beds. They laid flat beds out, and just dried it in the sun.

      My aunt makes her own 'fruit leather" she calls it just like this in the summer. All the berries she uses are from her garden. Nothing beats the little crunch from the seeds of the raspberries. I love it. We also would make our own jelly to, the best. I like how Elsie describes her love for real "fruit roll ups" nothing is quite like it honestly.

  3. Jan 2024
    1. And I’m not sorry for that. It turned out okay. Yeah. It was important to do that for me.

      Grief comes in so many shapes and forms. There is no right way to grieve. Throughout my grieving process, I have had many people question and or judge the way I am going through this. So when I read this, I teared up because it slightly validated me that doing what is right for me through this is not wrong. I really love how honest and down to earth she is by talking about grief. Grief is a very difficult thing to understand. No one should apologize for putting themselves first when grieving.

    2. “This is a time that’s very powerful for you. You’ve just lost this person very close to you. It’s a time for self-discipline. It’s a time to take care of yourself. Be kind to yourself, be good to yourself.” And if there’s certain areas that you want to change in your life for the better, then that’s the time to do it. It’s a time to analyze your life and say, “Where do I go from here?” My grandmother used to say, “You are in this fork in your life. You’re either going to go left or you’re gonna go right.

      As someone who is going through grief right now because I lost my brother, reading and hearing how she talks about grief is actually really inspiring. Using the analogy "You are in this fork in your life. You're either going to go left or you're gonna go right." "It's always easier to go left. Because you don't have to make any decisions." Spoke to me and is actually opening my mind to taking better care of myself through this time. I have 100% been going left and I never really thought of it that way till I read this. I really like that she touches on so many real life things and in a way not many people do because it's based around the teachings in her life and culture.

    1. He was a great, great player. They were happy. They had so much fun playing. Nobody was getting paid, but they sure enjoyed playing. We sure enjoyed their music.

      I really love hearing about how music would bring them together. Music was a huge thing in our family to bring everyone together so that warmed my heart. I like how she describes what she remembers and which instruments they played. It felt real when I listened to her voice light up when she talked about this ceremony.

  4. Jun 2023
  5. Nov 2022
    1. http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/meaningless.pdf Paper that argues cluster time series subsequences is "meaningless". tl;dr: radically different distributions end up converging to translations of basic sine or trig functions. Wonder if constructing a simplicial complex does anything?

      Note that one researcher changed the algorithm to produce potentially meaningful results

    1. For example, I recently read about how Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the same story dozens of times to the same person because he forgets who he already told. Once, when he finished telling his collaborator Tommy Kail a story, Kail said, “That happened to me. I told you that.” They both laughed then Kail added, “That’s why you’re cut out for theater, because you’ll tell it like it’s the first time.” So in the margin I wrote, LIKE IT’S THE FIRST TIME:

      This is interesting for itself.

      (reference: Sicker in the Head)


      It's also interesting because it's an example of regular rehearsal that actors, comedians, storytellers, performers and even salespeople often do to slowly hone and improve their performance or pitch. Each retelling and the response it gives provides subtle hints and clues as to how to improve the story or performance on the next go round, or at least until the thing is both perfected and comes out the same way every time.

  6. Sep 2020
    1. Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa to Carterhaugh As fast as she can hie. Both the mantle and its color are symbolic in important ways to the story. Green is the faerie color and it is considered unlucky for mortals to wear it in an place where the faeries might see them (see Alice Brand for an example of this ). Likewise, Janet refers to Tam Lin as "elfin grey" when speaking of him, since the root word for both colors was the same. Green has other symbolic meanings though. One is that a woman who dresses in green is supposed to be sexually promiscuous, since green hides grass stains. The other is that a woman dressed in green has left or been left by her lover, a 'grass widow', from the days back before divorce was a possibility for most folks. Janet specifically wears green into Carterhaugh woods despite the knowledge that faeries dwell there, which supports the earlier notion that she originally went there as an act of defiance, but it is noteworthy that Tam Lin specifically instructs her to wear the mantle when she comes to rescue him. "And then I'll be your ain true-love, I'll turn a naked knight, Then cover me wi your green mantle, And hide me out o sight." Apart from the need to provide cover for a wet and naked man in the woods during late fall, mantles (like the greek Aegis) were signs of protection, so Janet casting her mantle over Tam Lin makes sense as the final act of recovering him from the faeries. It is a statement that he is now her own and under her protection, but the choice of color is interesting. Possibly the color is either meant to confuse the faerie magic when she battles them, or as implied by Tam Lin's further command to 'hide me out of sight', simply as a means of camouflage in the green woods.

      symbolism of green kirtle in tam lin

  7. Mar 2019
    1. Presence is perhaps the most obvious issue to address when working at a distance, but it’s not always the simplest to address.

      With all forms of online learning, lacking a presence from a teacher or even students creates feelings of isolation. I think this is why in most online classes, professors want you to interact with each other whether that be in forums, discussions, or creating some sort of group assignments or projects. They try to address this feeling of detachment but it usually isn't as simple as that.