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Rosie McGee's Substack | Substack
Here to share my photos and stories of living with the early-days Grateful Dead; of living for 7 years at Grand Canyon National Park; and of compulsively photo-journaling my non-traditional life since I was 12 - now 80. Click to read Rosie McGee's Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Punjabi Pioneers
Brings to light the voices of Punjabi women from early Sikh families in Far North Queensland, whose courage, resilience, and contributions helped shape Punjabi life in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/punjab

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult:
🎵 Sex on Wheelz (radio edit)
#MyLifeWiththeThrillKillKult
https://waxtraxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/any-way-ya-wanna-sex-on-wheelz
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YOSsM5XUlEmZcrUBTF7E4

Anti-war activists in the '60s and early '70s did not just organize headline-grabbing mass marches.
They patiently worked together to build a vast anti-war infrastructure
– legal groups, GI coffeehouses, alternative newspapers and national anti-war coalitions
– that could sustain a wide range of future actions.
In working towards that goal,
anti-war activists benefited from the rich social fabric of associational life in the US
– a fabric that has…

The Finite Lens: How a Fragile Life Gives Shape to an Infinite Universe
The question arrives early and stays late: what does it mean to live a finite, fragile life inside an infinite, eternal universe? Every serious person encounters this problem, usually around the age when the body first betrays its limits, and no one resolves it cleanly. Theology dissolves the question by denying its premise. Science measures the mismatch with such precision that the human side of…

The Finite Lens: How a Fragile Life Gives Shape to an Infinite Universe | David Boles, Blogs
The question arrives early and stays late: what does it mean to live a finite, fragile life inside an infinite, eternal universe? Every serious person encounters this problem, usually around the ag…

Richard Davis and Revival in #Northamptonshire – a review https://edintone.com/richard-davis-nonconformist-revival-northamptonshire/ Stephen Pickles’s boo…

Richard Davis: A Nonconformist's Revival in Northamptonshire
Stephen Pickles’s Richard Davis and Revival in Northamptonshire offers a valuable exploration of nonconformist life beyond London in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Focusing on the ministry of Richard Davis, the book traces his influence from Rothwell across a network of satellite meetings that extended into several regions of England. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, it presents a balanced account of a figure whose effective ministry, published writings, and theological…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ministry:
🎵 Cold Life
#Ministry
https://ministryband.bandcamp.com/track/cold-life-dub-12-single-1982
https://open.spotify.com/track/76RvIZ3acrj7dixkMED0ay

Narasimha is the fourth incarnation of the #Hindu god Wishnu. For reasons, rage is a key trait of Narasimha, especially early in the incarnation. #trivia
Yesterday (Thursday) was "Narasimha Jayanthi", the birthday of Narasimha. The occasion is observed with pomp in Waisnavite locations across #India.
I of course attended the Narasimha Jayanthi festivities in #Udupi. Of the many people I encountered, two were rather rude and directed some anger at me, which I thought I didn't deserve. Still, I handled one of them right, which is by ignoring them; but I think I responded a wee bit in kind to the second. 😳
Needless to say, those two interactions left a bitter taste in me, but I later consoled myself that maybe it was just that Narasimha cast his shadow on some people that day, what with him having just been born. 😀
PS: Anyway, enjoy this presentation of Udupi Krishna on the special day:
#jest #life

Anybody else from the 19th Century out there?
#poetry #SmallPoems

Every once in awhile I catch up on the state of knowledge about really early evolution and there's at least one phylogeny where you have to hunt for the eukaryotes
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516062123

Review: The role of sensory experience in the maturation of prefrontal cortical circuits https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1808558/full

Frontiers | The role of sensory experience in the maturation of prefrontal cortical circuits
Sensory input during early life is crucial for brain circuitry to be appropriately wired and refined. Foundational studies in the past century established th...

En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday

Revolution and Resistance: English Baptist Life in the 17th Century https://www.lulu.com/shop/karen-smith-and-stephen-copson/revolution-and-resistance/paperback/product-rmg8mpm.html

Revolution and Resistance
Revolution and Resistance: English Baptist Life in the Seventeenth Century offers a fresh and richly textured exploration of Baptist identity during a century of upheaval. Edited by Stephen L. Copson and Karen E. Smith, this scholarly collection brings together leading historians to examine church life, spirituality, mission, controversy, and overlooked voices within early Baptist communities. Rather than retelling familiar political narratives, the essays probe the convictions, practices, and …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nation of Language:
🎵 In Another Life
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/in-another-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pEvh57vzBZ2qFF8v7Zo0r

A look at Amjambo Africa, an immigrant-founded publication in Maine that focuses on immigrant life and news from Africa with coverage in seven languages (Tandy Lau/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/h…

How one immigrant newsroom is connecting Maine’s communities
When Georges Budagu Makoko arrived in Maine in 2002 after fleeing violence in Central Africa, he spoke five languages — but English wasn’t one of them. Finding housing, healthcare or even basic services in his new home proved frustrating and often confusing. Years later, those early struggles inspired him to launch Amjambo Africa, a multilingual newsroom dedicated to helping new Mainers navigate life in the United States while sharing the stories of immigrant communities too often overlooke…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
MGMT:
🎵 Your Life Is a Lie
#MGMT
https://thefatalities.bandcamp.com/track/your-life-is-a-lie-mgmt-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0MVE8I80hHgzidIMT0wghI

Day Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talk Talk:
🎵 Life’s What You Make It
#TalkTalk
https://othervoices-eu.bandcamp.com/track/elsehow-life-s-what-you-make-it-talk-talk-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0P0Qbqyplr7DduF1jr7Quv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talk Talk:
🎵 Life’s What You Make It
#TalkTalk
https://othervoices-eu.bandcamp.com/track/elsehow-life-s-what-you-make-it-talk-talk-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TdVAFwHmNmpkTo7VVzBfG

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Donald Macleod explores the early life of George Gershwin, the composer of the American ‘melting pot’.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n28m

Apparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
#improv #hooplaImpro #london