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gentle spirits ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I grew up with batik, buying it, wearing it, loving it. I have pillows made from batik my mother bought in Thailand when I was a teenager. I might save them over books, in a fire :). They remind me of shopping trips to market w/ my mother, and how much she loved their vivid…
just for fun ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
You owe it yourself to go the link for photos of Baby-Girl Rhino. She’ll make you smile, I promise. We all deserve that 🙂 ~
a love letter to Portland ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I love the city of Portland, Oregon. But this trip — #5? #6? — was especially lovely. Of course much of that has to do w/ my son’s wedding :). And vacation always offers rose-coloured sunglasses to the tourist. But Portland really is a special place.…
the founding fathers, Islam, and enlighten(ed)ment ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
History has fallen out of fashion. Real history, I mean. The kind that requires reading more than one source. The kind of research that my students hate. Vectoring sources, looking things up in more than one place, viewing all sources skeptically. That kind of history…:) And yet people are always saying, “The Founding Fathers did…
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