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Street Art
I love street art and murals. Living in Uptown, there’s plenty to be found. I pass by this one each morning on my way to work, and I wanted to share it.
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” ~Howard Ikemoto
Love is All We Need
I ran across this video this afternoon and wanted to share it:
Organized by Starbucks, the video highlights our ONE global community and the power of music.
From Starbucks:
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30pm GMT Starbucks invited musicians from all over the world to sing together at the same time to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. In that one breathtaking moment, musicians from 156 countries played “All You Need is Love” together. Watch now, as musicians from all around the world come together and share a song.
2010 – What to do, what to do
Warning: The beginning of this post is somewhat jumbled and could be frustrating to the reader. The independent thoughts are eventually completed, I promise. Just bear with me.
I am a list-maker by nature. Whether at work, school or home, I find great satisfaction in making lists and subsequently crossing off items upon completion.
Separate, but related: in participating in the Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, I tried to remember all of the highlights of 2009 and I’m sure that I forgot many great memories and moments.
So, to tie these two thoughts together, below is my list of to dos for 2010. Some are minor, while others are goals for the entire year. It is my hope that this list (by being public in nature) will help me stick to these goals. In addition, it provides a great opportunity for me to document some of the year’s achievements, no matter how small.
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Home, and unplugged, for the Holidays
This afternoon I officially begin my holiday vacation, which consists of driving to Omaha until Saturday then returning to the Cities and continuing on to Green Bay for my first-ever Packer game at Lambeau field (cue music).
While my time at home will be relatively low-key, I am determined to maintain a healthy distance from online and social media. Blogs, Twitter and Facebook are a part of my everyday routine, but I don’t want to lose or miss out on the magic of family during the holiday season: playing board games, watching mom struggle with the Wii 
and enjoying movies.
That’s why I am braving a potential blizzard to drive six hours through Iowa. I’m not driving home to jump on Twitter or blog about my Christmas, recent news or any other daily ramblings I may have.
I don’t pledge a full black-out from social media, but my posts will be more scarce, tweets more infrequent. Have a wonderful holiday, and make sure to enjoy quality time with those you are with.
We’ll talk next week!
Maintaining Traditions
With the holidays quickly approaching, the cooking and baking of traditional Scandinavian foods begins – for my family at least. This weekend my grandma, aunt and cousin will be making lefse and it got me thinking: Are we losing family-based traditions in today’s retail world?
Traditions have been continued in our family for generations. Lefse, lutefisk (eww), Swedish meatballs, spritz cookies and more are served every year, no matter how many times I say that I don’t like lutefisk. However, it seems that the number of individuals who know how to prepare them is getting smaller.
I am just as guilty as others. I have not watched my grandma and aunt make lefse. I don’t know how to use the cookie press to make the special cookies. Is it because I’m sure I could find out how online? Or I know I could run down to the store and buy it? Or am I just relying on someone else to know how?
The responsibility falls to me to observe, learn and continue the traditions that I believe are important. However, I am curious if anyone else is experiencing something similar and your thoughts on the cause and/or solution.
Photo credit: theconglomerate.org
Thanks to Dave Erickson for teaching me the style coding. NOTE: I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to make the text wrap further up the image. If anyone has any tips, I would greatly appreciate it!
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