Tami Vander Kam
@tamivanderkam.bsky.social
Romantic, Story-hungry, Sense-making, Musician
Pinned
we are not bound to the stories they tell us.
we are singers of new songs.
every voice in this choir
mends the fractures of lies.
we are singers of new songs.
every voice in this choir
mends the fractures of lies.
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My marine biologist son Rob has lived on the same island for 7 years, doing painstaking work to improve biodiversity and train local people in conservation. Here’s a new video. Nothing dramatic (he’s not Attenborough and doesn’t have a film crew). Just a healthy coral reef:
youtu.be/2wlk-yfYi9Q?...
youtu.be/2wlk-yfYi9Q?...
Reef Highlights 2024
YouTube video by Drawaqa Marine Conservation Trust
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January 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My marine biologist son Rob has lived on the same island for 7 years, doing painstaking work to improve biodiversity and train local people in conservation. Here’s a new video. Nothing dramatic (he’s not Attenborough and doesn’t have a film crew). Just a healthy coral reef:
youtu.be/2wlk-yfYi9Q?...
youtu.be/2wlk-yfYi9Q?...
Thinking about long history -various perspectives of our place in the universe and how it influences everything, whether we are aware of it or not.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Thinking about long history -various perspectives of our place in the universe and how it influences everything, whether we are aware of it or not.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
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Jimmy Carter leaves a post-White House legacy unlike any other in my lifetime.
Statesman. Peacemaker. Author. Servant Leader. Humble. Charitable. Faithful. Devout. Principled. Hard Working. Committed. Prophet for Democracy. Lover of America.
#RIPJimmyCarter
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...
Statesman. Peacemaker. Author. Servant Leader. Humble. Charitable. Faithful. Devout. Principled. Hard Working. Committed. Prophet for Democracy. Lover of America.
#RIPJimmyCarter
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...
Jimmy Carter: Unwavering — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Rock’s reluctant rising star has always been ambivalent about fame. That just makes him all the more magnetic.
bittersoutherner.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Jimmy Carter leaves a post-White House legacy unlike any other in my lifetime.
Statesman. Peacemaker. Author. Servant Leader. Humble. Charitable. Faithful. Devout. Principled. Hard Working. Committed. Prophet for Democracy. Lover of America.
#RIPJimmyCarter
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...
Statesman. Peacemaker. Author. Servant Leader. Humble. Charitable. Faithful. Devout. Principled. Hard Working. Committed. Prophet for Democracy. Lover of America.
#RIPJimmyCarter
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...
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I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
December 30, 2024 at 12:19 AM
I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
Just worked 8 1/2 hours- on my feet- without a break. People don’t understand service industry and why tipping matters.
December 29, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Just worked 8 1/2 hours- on my feet- without a break. People don’t understand service industry and why tipping matters.
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just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
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A Puma cub looks at his mother with admiration. ❤️
December 20, 2024 at 12:31 PM
A Puma cub looks at his mother with admiration. ❤️
The hustle for provisions,
Ingenuity of commerce—
Ideas that once woke us in the night,
Offering a plan, a promise,
Now raise questions:
Whose interests are being served
In this Culture of Disconnection?
December 20, 2024 at 4:00 AM
The hustle for provisions,
Ingenuity of commerce—
Ideas that once woke us in the night,
Offering a plan, a promise,
Now raise questions:
Whose interests are being served
In this Culture of Disconnection?
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It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
December 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
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The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.
December 18, 2024 at 11:29 PM
The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.
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Pragmatic proactive Katie Porter.
Her ideas 💡 are solutions that sound fair, practical and doable.
The only problem is getting any of it passed into law.
The power mongers in the courts and those backing them won't give up their power.
Her ideas 💡 are solutions that sound fair, practical and doable.
The only problem is getting any of it passed into law.
The power mongers in the courts and those backing them won't give up their power.
December 18, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Pragmatic proactive Katie Porter.
Her ideas 💡 are solutions that sound fair, practical and doable.
The only problem is getting any of it passed into law.
The power mongers in the courts and those backing them won't give up their power.
Her ideas 💡 are solutions that sound fair, practical and doable.
The only problem is getting any of it passed into law.
The power mongers in the courts and those backing them won't give up their power.
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✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
December 18, 2024 at 6:55 AM
✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
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How many independent media and podcast interviews did the leaders of the Democratic Party do today, since they are now starting to talk a big game about “building up progressive alternative media?” Don’t just talk about it, lead by example, and don’t just keep doing cable news.
December 18, 2024 at 5:31 PM
How many independent media and podcast interviews did the leaders of the Democratic Party do today, since they are now starting to talk a big game about “building up progressive alternative media?” Don’t just talk about it, lead by example, and don’t just keep doing cable news.
echoing through MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and even to Robinson Jeffers we hear longing that becomes a spiritual path rather than something to “solve” or eliminate.
December 18, 2024 at 6:55 AM
echoing through MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and even to Robinson Jeffers we hear longing that becomes a spiritual path rather than something to “solve” or eliminate.
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Contrast and colors in times of despair. “It was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets,
nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge …” Virginia Woolf
nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge …” Virginia Woolf
December 16, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Contrast and colors in times of despair. “It was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets,
nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge …” Virginia Woolf
nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge …” Virginia Woolf
“The peculiar quality of ‘joy’ in successful Fantasy can be explained as a sudden glimpse of the underlying reality or truth.”
Tolkien on myth and sub-creation
December 16, 2024 at 4:27 PM
“The peculiar quality of ‘joy’ in successful Fantasy can be explained as a sudden glimpse of the underlying reality or truth.”
Tolkien on myth and sub-creation
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Jamie Raskin is keeping things real in explaining how Elon Musk may dodge paying taxes.
He may use Trump's ploy of waving his salary.
Interestingly he doesn't have a position to wave a salary he hasn't earned yet.
Jamie Raskin is keeping things real in explaining how Elon Musk may dodge paying taxes.
He may use Trump's ploy of waving his salary.
Interestingly he doesn't have a position to wave a salary he hasn't earned yet.
Raskin on how Musk stands to benefit from Trump win
YouTube video by MSNBC
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December 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Jamie Raskin is keeping things real in explaining how Elon Musk may dodge paying taxes.
He may use Trump's ploy of waving his salary.
Interestingly he doesn't have a position to wave a salary he hasn't earned yet.
Jamie Raskin is keeping things real in explaining how Elon Musk may dodge paying taxes.
He may use Trump's ploy of waving his salary.
Interestingly he doesn't have a position to wave a salary he hasn't earned yet.
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Unable to afford daycare ($25K/year for 4 days), Amber Lord left a job she loved, "I'm just sitting here crying, pregnant, and just feeling like: ‘There’s no village. There is no village. I live in a country where they don’t care.'”
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Ballooning child care costs force women out of the workforce - Marketplace
The cost of preschool and daycare has risen by about 26% since 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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December 12, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Unable to afford daycare ($25K/year for 4 days), Amber Lord left a job she loved, "I'm just sitting here crying, pregnant, and just feeling like: ‘There’s no village. There is no village. I live in a country where they don’t care.'”
www.marketplace.org/2024/12/11/e...
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Thinking of Elon Musk saying United Health Care’s first duty was to make money for its stockholders.
This is a place we’ve gone wrong as a country.
A company’s first duty should be to its customers, who put money IN, not its shareholders, who take money OUT.
This is a place we’ve gone wrong as a country.
A company’s first duty should be to its customers, who put money IN, not its shareholders, who take money OUT.
December 13, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Thinking of Elon Musk saying United Health Care’s first duty was to make money for its stockholders.
This is a place we’ve gone wrong as a country.
A company’s first duty should be to its customers, who put money IN, not its shareholders, who take money OUT.
This is a place we’ve gone wrong as a country.
A company’s first duty should be to its customers, who put money IN, not its shareholders, who take money OUT.
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There are so many good people in this country that I'd like to think that the people here would never let atrocities like what happened in World War 2 occur in the United States.
But then a majority of Americans support the mass deportations including 25% of Democrats (Scripps News/Ipsos poll).
But then a majority of Americans support the mass deportations including 25% of Democrats (Scripps News/Ipsos poll).
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
There are so many good people in this country that I'd like to think that the people here would never let atrocities like what happened in World War 2 occur in the United States.
But then a majority of Americans support the mass deportations including 25% of Democrats (Scripps News/Ipsos poll).
But then a majority of Americans support the mass deportations including 25% of Democrats (Scripps News/Ipsos poll).
Tolkien’s poem “Noel”, published in 1936, reflects his deep love of language and reverence for the Nativity.
He begins with the line:
“Grim was the world and grey last night:
and proceeds to contrast the bleakness of the world with the joy and light brought by Christ’s birth.
He begins with the line:
“Grim was the world and grey last night:
and proceeds to contrast the bleakness of the world with the joy and light brought by Christ’s birth.
December 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Tolkien’s poem “Noel”, published in 1936, reflects his deep love of language and reverence for the Nativity.
He begins with the line:
“Grim was the world and grey last night:
and proceeds to contrast the bleakness of the world with the joy and light brought by Christ’s birth.
He begins with the line:
“Grim was the world and grey last night:
and proceeds to contrast the bleakness of the world with the joy and light brought by Christ’s birth.
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Dear CEOs,
Is now a good time to talk about the gun violence in America & leverage your power & billions to lobby lawmakers to pass gun violence prevention laws?
Signed,
A Teacher
Is now a good time to talk about the gun violence in America & leverage your power & billions to lobby lawmakers to pass gun violence prevention laws?
Signed,
A Teacher
December 10, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Dear CEOs,
Is now a good time to talk about the gun violence in America & leverage your power & billions to lobby lawmakers to pass gun violence prevention laws?
Signed,
A Teacher
Is now a good time to talk about the gun violence in America & leverage your power & billions to lobby lawmakers to pass gun violence prevention laws?
Signed,
A Teacher
giving unchecked power to the rich and powerful always ends in ruin. Fox News will be remembered as the architect of democracy's destruction, Musk a boy-man who had everything but a soul, Trump the embodiment of evil-those who voted for this as willfully ignorant.
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 PM
giving unchecked power to the rich and powerful always ends in ruin. Fox News will be remembered as the architect of democracy's destruction, Musk a boy-man who had everything but a soul, Trump the embodiment of evil-those who voted for this as willfully ignorant.