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Look at this delightfulness. (Click for bigger ducks.)



This funnysweet card full of good wishes came courtesy of kenjari. Thank you so much! The white wafer below the card is called an opłatek, and kenjari explains it thusly:

Polish people traditionally share them on Christmas Eve, and also send them to friends far away. It's a wafer made from wheat flour and water, meant to be broken into pieces and eaten.

I sent out a round of solstice cards the other day, but I still have a few blank ones. If you like getting cards in the mail (mine is just a generic sparkly card with either a buck or some weird snow penguins on it), DM me your address. I believe I've sent one to everyone who asked in the first round.

I'm listening to CBC Ideas' "How to Save an Island: Film-makers and Fishers in Fogo". It's so nice to listen to these distinctively Newfoundland voices, and to hear all the room that's in a good piece of radio. It makes the house, the evening, feel at once more intimate and more spacious. A good old feeling I don't get much lately. It's fitting for a program about deep listening to a place and its communities.

Here's the synopsis:

Fifty years ago, while the rest of the country was celebrating Canada's Centennial, the friendly folks on Fogo Island — most of whom were fishers — were ordered to abandon their homes and resettle in larger communities on the larger island of Newfoundland. Memorial University's Extension Department invited the National Film Board of Canada to visit Fogo, and interview people about their future. At the end of what is now called The Fogo Process, they voted to stay put, form a cooperative, and take over the fish plant. It became a model for alternative democracy around the world.

It smells nice and cold outside.

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