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Jana Remy

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    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
    • Social Media
      • Mentions/Links
  • Scholarship
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    • Conferences & Invited Talks
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June 22, 2012

it’s breaking over me…
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it’s breaking over me…

A few years ago, whenever I was faced with a situation where I would typically insert deity into my thinking, I started inserting the ocean instead. It seems something worth worshiping (whereas God was no longer something I could worship) because it is vast and ineffable and powerful. I find it easier to surrender to the currents and ways of the sea than I do to anything else in my life right now, and find that time out on the water also seems to put everything into perspective.

Perhaps that’s why this song struck me so powerfully when it came onto my Pandora playlist recently…

And it’s peaceful in the deep,
Cathedral, you cannot breathe,
No need to pray, no need to speak
Now I am under.

And it’s breaking over me,
A thousand miles onto the sea bed,
Found the place to rest my head…

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me,
And all this devotion was rushing out of me,
And the crashes are heaven, for a sinner like me,
The arms of the ocean deliver me.

Though the pressure’s hard to take,
It’s the only way I can escape,
It seems a heavy choice to make,
Now I am under.

June 22, 2012
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Twitter Weekly Digest for @janaremy, 2012-06-22

  • Wonder if they're related to the funky chicken-buses that we rode on daily from New Jersey to NYC last year: http://t.co/gAJ14m9E #
  • Re-cataloging my books & finding sweet memories in the pages. :) @ Memorial Hall http://t.co/J4GCAsxw #
  • .@horse_thatbooks awww, that's kind of sad #thatcamp in reply to horse_thatbooks #
  • Blessing the bees in NYC: http://t.co/dnt0DMQn #
  • IMO, everyone ought to paddle in their local waterways–for understanding & appreciation: http://t.co/zLYAfSRd @LAReviewofBooks #
  • The graduate & his celebratory cupcake :) @ Claim Jumper http://t.co/PBQv6GxC #
  • Huge graduating class! @ Bren Events Center http://t.co/bXY4TUpi #
  • So excited to be at Gameboy's graduation–he's magna cum laude from UniHigh, such a huge achievement! #proudmama #
  • Saying goodbye again, but I'll be back…#thatcamp @ The Well (@ The Mason Inn & Conference Center) http://t.co/EFCKl8i3 #
  • Mango sticky rice! @ Fairfax, VA http://t.co/jM8GURLX #
  • Will any #thatcamp ers still be around at The Well tonite? #
  • MT @dancohen: Public Google Hangout w/ @angshah for the #thatcamp "Digital Journalism and Digital Humanities" session: http://t.co/2tC1hqpW #
  • RT @briancroxall: RT @captain_primate: Nerds doing nerdly things at #THATCamp (playing Resistance) http://t.co/2QamFSEq // fun game! #
  • Love the idea of doing collaborative orals prep with committee members via a group blog #thatcamp #
  • RT @dpmckenzie: Students want the good grade. That's usually structured. RT @retius: Students only think they want freedom. #THATCamp #
  • God idea: Using online forums for Intercampus collaboration (interacting w/students studying the same novel at other unis) #thatcamp #
  • Example of using @anthologize in the classroom: creating a document for each student's blogposts that they can use for their exams #thatcamp #
  • Can someone tweet the link to the schedule googledoc? #thatcamp #
  • Interesting, two podcasts in the first few dorkshorts. A new trend? #thatcamp #
  • MT @boone: Is it too late for a last-minute #thatcamp proposal? http://t.co/OIHVyi5i // would love to talk w/others abt LMS administration #
  • Happiness is: dining outdoors with friends by the light of fireflies #thatcamp #
  • It feels like a bit of a homecoming to be back at the Mason Inn again. Wish all my #oneweek friends were here… #thatcamp #
  • Breakfast of champions #ontheroadagain #thatcamp @ Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) http://t.co/TgullF28 #
June 22, 2012
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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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