Mary Anne’s Comments (group member since Feb 10, 2017)

Mary Anne’s comments from the flight paths group.

Happy New Year to everyone.

I looked up Kandiaronk on wikipedia and learned more about him.

I am Mary Ann to the gov't and banks but to everyone else I am Mary Anne
I am reading Debt by Graeber and it is equally eye-opening.
It is amazing what we do not know about history.

and i changed my name to my maiden name
now I am Mary Anne Rozanski - it was my contribution to the Ukrainian effort.

- I am Mary Anne - et oui je parle francais.

a year has passed since I read much more than short pieces. during 2022 I moved from Vancouver to Ottawa and then to a farm house in Quebec. During that time I was busy downsizing, packing and moving. and read very little. I hope to read more now and I hope to read David Graeber's book about Debt. I enjoyed The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity as an audiobook more than a year ago.

Hi all - I had cataract surgery Jan and Feb and have only just now got reading glasses, so that I can read books again.!!
Also, I am leaving Vancouver and moving to Ottawa at the end of April.
Any suggestions for books for me to read to catch up? There are so many (too many) books I want to read. Any suggestions for the flight as I am flying to Ottawa where my stuff will join me a few months later. Thanks.
Sight is an incredible gift we have.

Love your haiku!
April anticipates May magic.
I really loved The Tricking of Freya. Icelandic lore and geography, family angst and love, written in lovely prose.

Maggie O'Farrell is one of favourite authors (I have loads of favourites) and have read most of her books. I am saving Hamnet for a space and time when I be able to simply enjoy it.

Fall is my favourite season, but spring brings me joy for my little garden and the planting I do. Wet, dark and gloomy (while warmer than it was in winter) makes the worms happy.

Love the springing back and forth - I feel the joy you both feel.

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I have been reading with my grand-daughter: Holes, and Bud, Not Buddy - both are part of her online 'reading club' that is part of her school work.
I have reading series to make me feel connected to others, even though they are fictional characters: Heresy with Giordano Bruno as detective; The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras, a fun series. I have also read more philosophy this year: Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness; Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything; and Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Other books I enjoyed: The Witch's Heart; Night Train to Lisbon;

It has indeed been a longish winter.

Magdelanye wrote: "well gee MaryAnne its lovely to have you drop in for tea!
spring is a-coming!"
Thank you!

I will drink a nice tea to that!

Hi there. Magdelanye: where did you move to? Lots of work to move.
Happy September all!

April already and it seems like a cruel joke that the world is only now realizing that we are all in the same small boat without lifejackets for everyone.
I have been reading but not as much as other years - maybe it is trying to keep busy while in quarantine. Night Film is a very interesting novel about appearances vs reality. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a good translation of a lovely book about a feisty old woman. I reread all the Case Histories as a way of clinging to the familiar. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality is an interesting read about the various things that influence and convince us and our behaviour.
I do wish that the distance between us was referred to as physical rather than social as some people seem to think that saying hello from 3 metres away is an invitation to the virus, and avoid eye contact. This adds to the feeling of isolation. I must admit that the local small grocery stores I shop at - Choices and Organic Acres - have proved to be havens for friendly and kind conversation, not about politics or the virus, but about produce and food, consoling topics.
I too meditate, vipassana style. It is a way to open the heart and not become fearful in the world.

Magdelanye - Too bad - are you going to miss something or someone by not being able to go? Besides us ladies of the western flight paths?

Too bad about the buses.