We’re taking notes, Minneapolis!

Scribbling my outsider’s admiration + learnings while fresh

Jan 24 • Grace Oedel

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to the fresh light of morning!

poems with which to begin the year

Jan 1 • Grace Oedel

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the fertile dark

We are at the cusp, one year flaming out just as another is born.

Jan 1 • Grace Oedel

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3

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October 2025

try something!

we learn through doing, not through critique

Oct 21, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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birth in a time of death

everyday, the world is re-conceived

Oct 15, 2025 • Grace Oedel

11

August 2025

the wind is blowing

& what John Lewis told us about these stormy times

Aug 21, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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June 2025

cake, for my living and my dead

'joy is not meant to be a crumb'

Jun 11, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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3

restoring the force

in nature, the metaphor is right there

Jun 4, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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April 2025

We need to talk about money.

As Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “When an economic system actively destroys what we love, isn't it time for a different system?”

Apr 12, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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March 2025

yes, we are in a stormy sea

but we can still chart by the stars and find our way

Mar 5, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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January 2025

we stand at the threshold

on kissing the mezuzah & remembering what matters

Jan 29, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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laughter: yes, even now (& other lessons from movement elders)

or: 'be joyful though you have considered all the facts'

Jan 21, 2025 • Grace Oedel

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