Jana Remy
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Jana Remy

  • Writing
    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
    • Social Media
      • Mentions/Links
  • Scholarship
    • Awards/Fellowships
    • Conferences & Invited Talks
    • Collaboration
    • Workshops
    • Conference Planning
    • Technical Skills
  • Teaching
    • Blogposts About Teaching
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January 2009

no wonder
Random

no wonder


trees in winter, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir

January 31, 2009
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I, robot
amputeebody

I, robot


Jana 2.0, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

Really excited about the upgrade. Love the new sleek and shiny look and it feels so good!

I’ll be hurting tonite, though. Getting a new leg is far harder than breaking in a new pair of shoes. It’s like hiking 20 miles in new stiff hiking boots that go all the way up to your crotch (not complaining, though–happy, happy, happy).

January 30, 2009
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green
gardenphoto

green


on a day that I needed this shade of green, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

This picture could’ve been more artfully rendered, but despite that, I love looking at it.
Green.
Some days I just need that shade of green.

What colors are capturing your attention today?

January 29, 2009
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my steps
bodyoutrigger

my steps


pilgrimsteps, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

For the past few weeks/months I’ve been eking away at some projects, step by-step:

–creating an exercise habit. I’ve been working out 6 days/week since early September. It’s not always easy to fit in and I don’t always enjoy the effort, but I love how important it’s become in my life and how good I’m feeling these days.

–reconnecting with an old favorite activity, canoeing, as I learn how how to paddle outrigger-style. A friend’s been taking me out on the Back Bay periodically through the holidays and I’ve decided to join a team so I can train more intensely and race. I can’t believe that I’m nearly 40 and I’ve just joined up with a new team sport. It’s amazing the places this journey of my life takes me.

–getting a spiffy new c-leg because mine’s an old out-of-warranty model. I had various fittings over the past 2 months and if all goes well I’ll have it in hand (or rather, on foot) Friday morning. This one will have a remote control. I kid you not. And no way am I telling my teenage kids where I’m hiding that little gizmo (no replay of “The Wrong Trousers” happening around here, I say)

–working diligently on my academic projects, including the first final draft of the diphtheria chapter for my dissertation. It’s a love/hate thing: love the process of history-making, hate that my intentions are always loftier than what emerges on the page. I love/hate diphtheria, too–love learning about the disease (fascinating stuff, that), hate the sorrow and horror of lives lost to it.

–finding novels again. For awhile I’d given them up, having grown weary of reading (not an unimaginable thing when you realize that I digest 4-10 books/week for my “work”). While in NYC I discovered books all over again. The joy! I’ve been coming home with a stack of novels from the library each week and am simply devouring them. I allow myself to read in that space of time after the daily work is done and I’m not quite yet ready for sleep. I just finished _The Blind Assassin_ and started _Arrowsmith_ last night.

How about you, what steps have you been taking lately?

January 29, 2009
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talisman
photo

talisman


rose, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

“Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe–the open sesame to every soul.”
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(a favorite foremother/suffragist)

January 28, 2009
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if this is you…
if this is you

if this is you…


swirly, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

If, when you saw a posting on Freecycle for 12(!) rosebushes, you realized that they were just calling your name…“Jana,” they said…and you thought to yourself just how much those rosebushes would cost and just how much you would enjoy them, you probably didn’t think twice before you told that person that you could pick them up on Saturday and then told yourself that despite the rain you could surely dig 12 deep holes in your garden for those bushes this weekend.

And you may have even thought twice about this ridiculous project when you realized that the rosebushes were ancient, with ginormous (20-40lb) rootballs and you knew that you would be doing much of the toting yourself…to the car…to the garden….to finding exactly the right spot within the garden. And not to mention those holes that would need digging.

And if this is you, you really meant it when you told your son how glad you were that he was now a teenager, because he could lift the bushes even better than you. And you are singing the praises of leather gloves after blood running down your arms from those thorns(!). But you have just finished hole #8 and have just three more to go tomorrow (#12 rosebush went to a friend) and you…you have no regrets at all.

January 27, 2009
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making history

wearing my techno-trousers

Come and join in the fun.

January 26, 2009
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I ♥ dilly.
John

I ♥ dilly.


I ♥ dilly., originally uploaded by mind on fire.

No tattoos on this body of mine, just John’s temporary doodles.

Did you know John calls me “Dilly”? I love that he’s had this special name for me ever since our honeymoon…

PS: See the table and candles in the background? This pic was taken just after meditation.

January 25, 2009
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a Perfect Gift.
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a Perfect Gift.


The Perfect Gift., originally uploaded by mind on fire.

John collects images of The Last Supper. John hearts cephalopods.
CatGirl does a mashup sketch of both for him for Xmas. She is so awesome! :)

January 25, 2009
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Johnphoto

the quorum

John always makes me look so good. Lucky me. :)

January 24, 2009
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making history

where do you hide your treasures?

In your freezer?

January 23, 2009
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a bit sleepless
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a bit sleepless


Wounded, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

A day or two ago my lower leg started turning red hot and swollen. I think, now, that it’s just the result of a spider bite, but is it any wonder that I’ve found it pretty hard to sleep for the past couple of nights?

Note: pic above was taken in May of last year, about a month after the injury that resulted in my 6-month encounter with an antibiotic-resistant infection

January 22, 2009
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About Me

Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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