by Monta May | Jan 21, 2020 | Stories
Charlie was the unloved love-child of the beautiful flame-haired Alice Anderson and the wild and stubborn James Johnston. Alice was tall and willowy and full of gentle grace. The oldest of 6, auburn-haired and softly freckled, she could have had any boy, and there...
by Monta May | Jan 2, 2020 | Activism, Justice, Mercy, Regular Life
Social Justice Warrior. I hear the label slung at people with derision, with contempt, with bitterness, maybe even fear. I think the phrase generates lots of discomfort, resentment, and anger. It’s mostly used as an insult, a challenge to do battle as in...
by Monta May | Nov 27, 2019 | Walking & Thinking
So how do you hold yourself accountable without beating yourself up when you are disappointed in yourself? Of what possible value is shame? Remorse, maybe, but shame? Can we harvest all of the good parts of holding ourselves accountable without being harmfully...
by Monta May | Mar 12, 2019 | Activism, Design, Regular Life
Last month I was asked to lead a workshop on making zines at an equity in education summit. It ended up that 3 other folks presented with me. The first part of the presentation ran long, so I didn’t get to share much about the actual production of zines, so here...
by Monta May | Mar 7, 2019 | Activism, Community, Design
Last month I was asked to lead a workshop on making zines at an equity in education summit. It ended up that 3 other folks presented with me. Here is my part of the presentation. So, what is a zine? A zine is a small-circulation self-published work of original, or...
by Monta May | Feb 4, 2019 | Regular Life, Sustainability
I’m not a fan of Nietzsche, but I certainly feel stronger today…*And a mindfulness practice helps in times like these. Updates in reverse chronological order.2/4/19Here’s another not-so-quick update…Last night Neil and I went over to the house...
by Monta May | Jan 17, 2019 | Regular Life
Soup is cozy. Soup is homey. Soup is tasty. Soup is a cheap meal. So I’ve started making soups again. It’s cold here in Minnesota… It was cold in Vegas while we were there. So soups is on the front burner again. And it’s lovely. Someone...
by Monta May | Jan 9, 2019 | Big Projects
My big spring project is going to be a tiny camping trailer.I’ve wanted one for a long time. We were looking at campers made by a company here in Minnesota, but between the time we looked at them and when we were ready to put a down payment on one, the company...
by Monta May | Dec 15, 2018 | Activism, Community, Mercy, Sustainability
Below is a response to a friend’s post about her son’s passion and despair over the damage to habitat and loss of animal lives, to the point of extinction. I’ve taken some time to think about my response to your request for thoughts and suggestions...
by Monta May | Oct 22, 2018 | Activism, Community, Mercy
Good Morning. I wanted to take up voice blogging. And since the guy who talked to me about it, did this way I’m going to try it. So the process is that I record my thoughts on these walks. Then I look them over, fixing the punctuation and weird word...
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