I'm sorry, sad, to announce that I'm not able to "open the café" today. I'm dealing with a head cold, not terrible but annoying and exhausting. You don't want my germs. I was planning to choose songs from my Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion playlist. I was thinking about yesterday, Orange Shirt Day, and the news I'm seeing on my socials about rape culture and how they're related. The common factor is the white male focus of our culture. I was reading about the Doctrine of Discovery in my Truth and Reconciliation work. "The Church" was and is such a huge influence on our attitudes about women and other cultures, people from other cultures. It shouldn't be, but Power corrupts. It's heavy, but I'm proud of my church, the United Church of Canada for speaking out against those attitudes and for working to "reconcile" and "restore" the family of God to include all of creation, like the Indigenous Peoples include al...
My September and School playlist grows anytime I hear something about the fall, or school, or new beginnings. I recently added Dolly Parton’s Here You Come Again, and today I added her Coat of Many Colors. I love it when I learn about things that were always there but I never looked. One of the greatest things about these Thursday afternoons is the way we listen to each other and easily switch to different songs or stay to linger on some songs or artists. I have my lists and always come with a loose plan of what I want to focus on, and ideas about which songs people might like, but going off on a tangent is always fun and fruitful. One unexpected tangent brought us to Pinterest a propos of the recipes for my treats. I was surprised by the realization that I do the same thing with Apple Music that I do with Pinterest. I make little collections and keep adding to them, playlists and ‘boards’ working the same way. Another tangent led to Bridgerton. You Belong to Me by Taylor Swift is...