Warning: May be longer than 500 words. I attended the Community Update on the government shutdown yesterday. The whole meeting is on the YouTube channel for the Tribal Government. Questions were asked, answers were given. This isn’t a rehash of what was said. You can watch the meetings as there were two meetings: one in each sector. I haven’t watched the second one. A community meeting for the Delegates was scheduled for last evening which I had to be at in preparation for the MCT Constitutional Convention meeting tomorrow.
What I want to discuss is a more general set of things that we can do in the wake of the longest federal government shut down. For now, I’d like to point out that this crisis is one of the reasons for the cultural value of sharing. We are a generous, caring people. Let us remember that in the days going forward.
17 January 2019
14 January 2019
Writerly Doings
I have been busy, day and night, working to get my blogs and such other details as are needed to bring you news and events from Niiganabiik’s World. Well, as this is my writerly journal blog, I guess I must get in the habit of Writerly doings.
Well, as you can see, I have revamped my website. Just a bit. The posts are now listed in the blog archive. I haven’t updated the labels list though. I did, at one time, trim that down to 15. I have downloaded my posts and am in the process of analyzing them. Had made updates to a few before and wondered why I made so many posts in 2013. Hahaha.
Found out it was cause I updated my 2012 blogs at some point in the dim, forgotten past. So, now, to keep things straight, I have set an update category so I don’t go bonkers at some point in the future, trying to figure out how I could have written so many when I don’t remember why. Man, I tell ya, the past few days has been quite hectic around here.
“Maaa!” echoes from my newly KonMari’d rooms and this means my sons have discovered I have moved one or t’other of their precious belongings. Now, normally, I don’t touch their things. However, in the interest of saving time, I had to. The end result, aside from tripping over the mountain of items in the living room and part of the kitchen, is I must suffer through their echoing cries. Well, from my day son. My night son just stands there, arms crossed, eyeball-ing me so that eventually I must ask “What?” in as guilt-free voice as I can manage. Hmmmph.
T’any rate, being as that’s neither here nor there, but does, indirectly, mind, affect my writerly doings, I have developed a much more healthy, and grateful, respect for the Scrivener program I purchased, also at some distant point in the past. In the past few days, welll, actually, this morning, as I was trying to make sure my blog could be seen on mobile devices, I inadvertently, messed up my settings on my blog. This necessitated a frantic text to my niece who promptly sent a screenshot which then put me on the right track for getting my blog back. -ell, I had to take a break and go have lunch with my sister.
Upon my return, I spent a couple more hours and found out that my domain, google and blogger accounts were not in sync with me. Those accounts just do not take in the facts that I live with sons, have sisters who need this or that and friends who rely on me to keep them informed of my writerly doings.
Well, the main thing I have discovered, after setting my website back to rights, is that 1000 words is a might too long to read on all those mysterious devices. So, this blog as well as any others I may choose to maintain, will be limited to 500 or so words. To see any longer writerly things must come from my books. Ahhh,well. Back to the drawing board…hmmm.
Well, as you can see, I have revamped my website. Just a bit. The posts are now listed in the blog archive. I haven’t updated the labels list though. I did, at one time, trim that down to 15. I have downloaded my posts and am in the process of analyzing them. Had made updates to a few before and wondered why I made so many posts in 2013. Hahaha.
Found out it was cause I updated my 2012 blogs at some point in the dim, forgotten past. So, now, to keep things straight, I have set an update category so I don’t go bonkers at some point in the future, trying to figure out how I could have written so many when I don’t remember why. Man, I tell ya, the past few days has been quite hectic around here.
“Maaa!” echoes from my newly KonMari’d rooms and this means my sons have discovered I have moved one or t’other of their precious belongings. Now, normally, I don’t touch their things. However, in the interest of saving time, I had to. The end result, aside from tripping over the mountain of items in the living room and part of the kitchen, is I must suffer through their echoing cries. Well, from my day son. My night son just stands there, arms crossed, eyeball-ing me so that eventually I must ask “What?” in as guilt-free voice as I can manage. Hmmmph.
T’any rate, being as that’s neither here nor there, but does, indirectly, mind, affect my writerly doings, I have developed a much more healthy, and grateful, respect for the Scrivener program I purchased, also at some distant point in the past. In the past few days, welll, actually, this morning, as I was trying to make sure my blog could be seen on mobile devices, I inadvertently, messed up my settings on my blog. This necessitated a frantic text to my niece who promptly sent a screenshot which then put me on the right track for getting my blog back. -ell, I had to take a break and go have lunch with my sister.
Upon my return, I spent a couple more hours and found out that my domain, google and blogger accounts were not in sync with me. Those accounts just do not take in the facts that I live with sons, have sisters who need this or that and friends who rely on me to keep them informed of my writerly doings.
Well, the main thing I have discovered, after setting my website back to rights, is that 1000 words is a might too long to read on all those mysterious devices. So, this blog as well as any others I may choose to maintain, will be limited to 500 or so words. To see any longer writerly things must come from my books. Ahhh,well. Back to the drawing board…hmmm.
11 January 2019
Time for Healing
Those of you who follow me on Facebook are aware that my mother journeyed on in July of 2015 and my father journeyed on in 2017 and my brother(in-law) in 2018 along with three Elders who were my “advisors” in 2015, 2017 and my last living uncle in 2016. The past three and one-half years have been quite eventful in so many ways.
About a year or so ago, I discovered Marie Kondo’s “Tidying Up” process. I’d been searching for ideas on motivation and came across this process. I’d printed out several cleaning schedules, organizing tips and what ever else I could think of to help me in the process of clearing my parents’ belongings. So many details to take care of.
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