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Natalie Morrill

6 years

My aunt sent me this photo of my 101-year-old grandma finding my book in their local bookstore. ("Hand in the air means 'Yay!'" - Aunt) THE GHOST KEEPER is officially out in Canada today! Tell your grans. 💙

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9 months

This is the kind of cartoon that would have occupied my thoughts for months as a child

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1 year

One of my many crazed medical opinions is that any patient going under general anesthesia for surgery should be allowed to bring an observer/representative who will be present in the operating room to ensure that their body is treated with respect

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2 years

Can you imagine a medieval scribe learning about this. He would either start levitating in ecstasy, or else calmly say, "The LORD maketh Leviathan to nap with his gaze upon heaven," & make an impenetrable illustration of it in the margins of the Gospels.

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2 years

When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of five or six whales, presumably for protection. 1/2

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1 year

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@natalie_morrill Me and my homies when one of us gets a tonsillectomy.

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3 years

@patdubois Every day of school for the rest of your life is a letdown after the one where a moose bursts in through the window

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1 year

"Hmm, logistically challenging" I! don't care!!

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2 years

@micha_frazer We live in postantidisestablishmentarianist world

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2 years

@Choplogik Barley Butt went harder

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2 years

@dhomochameleon Not nearly as funny a context but this happened once when my mum was texting me (her screenshot)

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3 years

Love a Sri Lankan frogmouth. Such an odd critter.

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2 years

@femmesforchrist Andouille Poisson's views on contemporary architecture are noteworthy, though readers should be forewarned about his liberal & idiosyncratic use of ethnic slurs in describing skyscrapers

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10 months

Important: 17th century French woodcut of a capybara eating a banana

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3 years

@brondotcomputer Similar for me as a kid: all the talk shows saying Jennifer Lopez was so brave for showing off her big bottom instead of trying to be super skinny, & then they'd cut to a photo of JLo who was... incredibly slim

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4 years

@HillaryMonahan Wait... I've seen this movie

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1 year

At what age in the Charlie Brown universe do you think people transition from normal speech to speaking through a trombone

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4 years

Most recent fascination is with these little pocket shrines from the early 20th century -- many made out of/to resemble shell casings, and very popular among French soldiers in WWI.

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1 year

@OgLakyn "She's wearing her skin to the wedding" is some kind of proverb

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2 years

@ElizaJaneAgain I used to babysit a four-year-old who loved this song & asserted that it was about her, & that the "only seventeen" line referred to the fact that only seventeen people knew this

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1 year

One excellent piece of CS Lewis trivia is that he lost the competition for an Oxford professorship to a scholar named CD Lewis (Cecil Day Lewis) who was also Daniel Day Lewis's dad

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2 years

Widow (sobbing): They hung him for the murder... but he didn't do it... Me (patting her hand sympathetically): It's "hanged" Widow (sobbing): In contemporary usage both are acceptable Me: (stepping on her cat as I head for the door)

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3 months

If you showed this to an ancient or Medieval person they would simply nod & say something like, "& he shall fashion his offspring thereof"

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3 months

Bird collects fur from a sleeping fox to build a nest..

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2 years

@lastpositivist Famously she did have to shorten the title from The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Are The Baddies In This Scenario, The Omelas Child-Torture Arrangement Being Pretty Groovy, All Things Considered

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2 years

Toddler emotional crisis has reached (sobbing) "I want to eat so much salt." "You can't eat so much salt or you'll be sick." (sobbing) "I want to be sick."

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9 months

@jpbrammer "Grab your goat for the sacrifice"

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2 years

@barahsennett Five million men about to reply "Dudes Rock"

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3 months

Sign reading "IN THIS HOUSE We Believe..." above Chronicles of Narnia arranged in publication order

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2 years

@racecard_driver We run an urban, free-range micro-farm for small pets

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2 years

I need to learn how to pitch articles like this

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2 years

@ellewasamistake Smh asking this question when you could be asking why the local infrastructure was so egg-hostile

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4 years

This could be us but you're not a salamander

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Wildlife biologist and photographer Mario Aldecoa holding hands with a giant Japanese salamander

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5 years

Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche, has entered palliative care. If you're the praying sort, please keep him in prayer. 💙🙏 - Jean Vanier est entré en soins palliatifs,

Jean Vanier Archives - Aleteia

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2 years

@timgill924 It has always troubled me. Has anyone been able to verify whether Daphne was in fact turned into a tree? It might have seemed reasonable 200 years ago, but in our modern context, such stories leave one feeling somewhat skeptical.

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2 years

This one is always incredibly hard to meditate on, but I think necessary.

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2 years

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” ― Dorothy Day

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4 years

If anyone feels like a low-stakes online convo... I'm very curious how people would dress if money & social expectations were no object. Do you have a dream style that would be yours in an alternative reality?

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1 year

Time for this critter's daily affirmations

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2 years

All my homies are clicking through to replies going, "Where can I find the pigeon movie"

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2 years

Leave me alone, Reese Witherspoon

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2 years

In the (near) future, every person will have a parallel digital identity. Avatars, crypto wallets, digital goods will be the norm. Are you planning for this?

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5 months

If Earth gets flung out past Pluto into the Oort cloud I am NOT going in to work

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Passing star could fling Earth out past Pluto into the Oort cloud

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1 year

In awe of this edition of The Abolition of Man that was at the top of the search results page

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3 years

@Alex_A_Guerrero @travisclau Whan that my childe, with his armes shorte, the pencille of learning grasped hath perforce, I shall saye, ich, unto the learned doctors at his eschole, thank ich you each and every oone

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3 years

Ivanka Demchuk's "Transfiguration." I love this one.

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2 years

@CatholicClod Does it help if she says "Gosh," "No way" and "Wow" at appropriate intervals

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3 years

Enamored with this Chinese Orthodox depiction of the Annunciation (that's today! nine months till Christmas) -- Mr. Angel modestly stepping into the room through the curtain

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2 years

Friends who pray, can you please pray for me? I've let some people down who I was doing some work for, & I don't know how to describe my physical/mental response except to say it has triggered some pretty wild/disproportionate symptoms of intense stress. Not helpful.

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3 years

Godparents got me a fancy seal for marking my books! Envy me, bookish pals

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1 year

One of the very practical things about women's clothing from, say, before the 20th century is that it's almost always adjustable for weight gain/loss & pregnancy. I think this is something "slow fashion" has yet to really find an answer to.

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2 years

@blsandford Nooo you have to log this on the blockchain or it's worthless :(

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5 months

An evening reading the entirety of The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe aloud in a farmhouse in the snow with 12 friends. Exceptionally good vibes. 📚🦁

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7 months

thus does Fortune's wheel turn treacherously

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2 years

Yesterday my mum was apologizing to her dog for adding garlic to her dinner without considering that the dog would want to eat some of it, & this image immediately took form my mind

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1 year

My Hamlet take is that if King Hamlet were really visiting from among the holy souls in Purgatory, he wouldn't get Hamlet to commit murderous vengeance, much less so in a spirit that eschewed sending Claudius to heaven. He was, as Hamlet feared, a demon.

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3 years

@pseud0spiral @LGoosetrain Really irritated my brother by calling his daughter Penelope like it rhymed with envelope after she was born

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2 years

The disrespect??

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3 years

@jntod Wait... I've come across this meter... in the Vatican Secret Archives

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2 years

I'm at my most vulnerable to weird spiritual tendencies re: whales. Seeing a whale in the wild feels like being visited by a being from another dimension, come to bless you.

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3 years

Has there ever been a piece of art that made you want to be a better person? What was it?

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2 years

@katiedimartin This is like the opposite of imagining the audience naked

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2 years

@fingerbIaster As a survivor of fish violence [trout bit me one time], that franchise disgusts me

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3 years

Fascinated by the Wikipedia entry for "standing"

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1 year

In the French translation of The Hobbit that I have (Le Hobbit, if you want to know), Bilbo Baggins's name has been translated to Bilbo Bessac. I am intrigued by the translator's sense that his name has to invoke the image of a bag/sack.

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2 years

@bdmcclay They're unhappy because they broke with sacred tradition

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I feel very insecure about the insane disparity in income between me(28M) and my gf(28F)

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3 years

I'm trying to remember the plot of Madeline. I think it's "there were some orphans in Paris, & the smallest one was named Madeline, & one day she got appendicitis, but she lived." Have I forgotten a significant plot point or is that basically it

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2 years

I submit a request to life to treat my heart gently

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3 years

@SketchesbyBoze Something like Wishbone but instead of a dog the main character is always Dev Patel

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3 years

Oh my goodness, I needed this today: Staff at a nursing home on Manitoulin Island are dressing up like deer & letting the residents hunt them with Nerf guns.

Why this First Nations nursing home is keeping elders entertained with nerf guns | CBC News

Staff at a nursing home in Wikwemikong, Ont., are finding creative ways to lift the spirits of elders during the coronavirus pandemic, including simulating memories of hunting, with nerf guns.

www.cbc.ca

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3 years

My nana (very elderly, some memory issues) on the phone w/ Mum: Why do you live so far away Mum: I had to move when Keith got a job out here. You moved for dad's job too when you were young. It's what families do; we have to stay with our husbands. Nana: Or we could shoot them

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4 years

@dana_edits The sub-text here is brag about how quickly people at your clinic process you when you arrive, I see how it is

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4 months

@SimchaFisher Whoever made these understood little about men, women, or the world (possibly understood trains)

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2 years

Do not go gentle into that gn

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3 years

@BremenNacht Most people may treat it as just another fun read, but I have a habit of seeing what others don't & I think it has something serious to say, almost like a warning of what our society might become if we're not careful.

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8 months

What if we kissed... in the papal yurt

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“The ger creates a humane space: it is the place for family life, friendly conviviality, encounter and dialogue able to make room, even in a crowd, for each individual.” 📷Vatican Media

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1 year

@JonathanHsy - Ongoing Beefs - Historical Beefs - One-sided Beefs

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4 years

The anti-v*xxer's weakness... PC Optimum points

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4 years

Incredibly smooth bunny move

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2 years

Dad is disappointed that Mum doesn't want to talk about Russia with him. "She can't stand turning points of history," he says.

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3 months

Excellent estate sale find (with dust jackets!)

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1 year

@owwmypeepeehurt This is an example of a song that is better than the character acts like it is

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7 years

Prayers tonight for Venezuela, and Yemen, and East Africa, and my neighbours, and just everybody. And you. Sleep well, you.

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2 years

Suddenly seized this afternoon by deep & arbitrary conviction that you cannot effectively study a region's or period's literature without also learning to cook & eat what its authors would have eaten

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1 year

@lastpositivist Sign up for my course on becoming rich by owning the means of production 💰

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2 years

Something wonderful (if perhaps obvious), I think, is that Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux-Arts" is about the loneliness of tragedy & suffering, & it really, really gets that -- yet reading it can also make you feel less lonely.

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2 years

Imagine you are given a little commercial space & a cosmic guarantee that whatever business you set up there will succeed over the long-term, but that you can't expand beyond this space. What business are you opening?

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3 years

Saw an article title that read, "The Swedish model has failed," with a handsome Swede in the photo, & thought, "Leave him alone, he probably has other skills he could develop." Anyway they were talking about COVID response, as every other reader understood.

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5 months

@Historiographos I had a first year English lit student in 2014-ish suggest that a feminist reading of a 1990s poem might be anachronistic as people back then might not have been aware of gender issues.

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Or "Thus do we live on the grace that is perpetually offered by the LORD" Or "The fox who sleepeth thus will soon be all nakèd, much like unto thee, lazybonès"

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1 year

One of my (v wise) friends recently said something like, "People hear 'marriage is an equal partnership,' & they think something like, 'you share the chores equally.' But those are just the tasks that need to get done. They aren't the marriage." Gives me much to ponder.

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4 years

Good medieval illustration of how babies happen, served up from my FB memories today. This all checks out.

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3 years

Still sputter whenever I remember this, the best summary of Job

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5 years

Read through some of the posts on #TheCostOfBeingDisabled (started by @Imani_Barbarin ) if you haven't already. I hope we can seriously ask ourselves if it's okay that this is the status quo for so many people.

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I did when I posted about the article: So, to disabled people, what is #TheCostOfBeingDisabled ? How much money does it really take to stay afloat, if not just alive?

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1 year

Priest's homily opens with the words, "Cormac McCarthy --"

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2 years

New freeloading roommate 💙

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2 years

C.S. Lewis in A Grief Observed remarks, I think wisely, that people who believe in God, when they experience calamity, aren't actually that likely to stop believing in God, but are at risk of starting to see God as a kind of cosmic sadist.

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2 years

@thecitywanderer This is no less than what I'd expect from Google, the internet's landlord

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3 years

I was re-taping this copy of The Lord of the Rings that I've had for years (first copy I read, I think), & remembered the previous owner had made a helpful note on the first page. Recommended as an act of charity to other first-time readers.

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Recessional hymn was "O God Beyond All Praising." Was setting my hymnal down so I could kneel when a tall be-habited religious sister plopped into my pew & said in a Polish accent, "I just need—nice song—take photo." She photographed the hymnal page with her phone & headed out.

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9 months

Which way, Western Bunny

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2 years

@MenshevikM New pre-Turing-Test test required on the human running the Turing Test

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If I end up with a professional nemesis I hope she is named Natalie Norrill

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2 years

I am a good sport & scream obligingly when niece jumps out at me. "I'm so scared!" I say. Later niece explains to me sadly that the reason I am scared of her is that I don't love her.

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