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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 17/09/2026

Action needed: ask the Army Corps to reject the Section 404 (wetlands destruction) permit for the NewRange copper-nickel sulfide ore mine in Minnesota’s Lake Superior watershed. waterlegacy.org/newrange-com...

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 18/05/2026

Hurray for Concordia Language Village! I had a week of immersion in Finnish language and culture!

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 08/05/2026

More info about Marianne Boruch and the Jackson Poetry Prize: www.pw.org/about-us/new...

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 08/04/2026

Public libraries are democracy's great equalizers.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 02/12/2025

We need to protect ourselves from environmental degradation. When mining extraction contaminates our fresh water resources, then the health of plants, people, and animals are endangered. Rally Dec 10 at noon in Duluth at the MPCA office.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 01/11/2025

Rikhardinkadun kirjasto, the University, and Finland's National Library, beautiful spaces to visit, to read in, and to write. All favorite places.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 14/08/2025

Come to the UpNorth LitFest In Fosston, Minnesota on September 25-26. Join these writers workshops and the great community of people who love art and literature.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 09/08/2025

The premiums will be going up (thanks to the GOP administration).

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 10/07/2025

State parks in northern Minnesota are a great place for forest bathing.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 14/06/2025

#NoKings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Throngs of people on the street! #50501 #Indivisible

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 29/03/2025

Today 800+ people showed up for Practicing-Democracy.org. Join us! We are going to bring back kindness, due process, voting rights, public service, respect for law, and care for those who are vulnerable.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 25/03/2025

Ebooks Minnesota has a free download of the children's book, Where We Come From. It's the Minnesota Read. It's a lovely book with beautiful illustrations and every child and adult should experience this story. #Booksky mackinvia.com/dashboard?mk...

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 11/03/2025

There is a rush on the day that the river breaks free.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 04/03/2025

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot. This book has never been more important. It's a must read and a good read. #Booksky

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 25/02/2025

A book about a creative couple, both artists. "Fair Play" is based on Tove Jansson’s relationship with the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she shared a life, and a home, for some forty years. Beautiful story. #Booksky

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 25/02/2025

Great novel: The Unseen by Roy Jacobson. The setting is the archipelago in northern Norway. It is the perfect book to read because it takes the reader away from the chaos and disappointment of the political machinations occurring in the US. #Booksky booksfromnorway.com/books/994-th...

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 23/02/2025

Indivisible Grand Rapids, Bemidji & Duluth - 200+ people gather at the office of US Rep Pete Stauber to protest against his support of Trump/Musk's cruel and harmful attack on public servants, veterans, the National Parks, BWCA, and all other regulatory services.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 23/02/2025

Saturday spent browsing the huge collection of old books at Chester Creek Books in Duluth. Fantastic!

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 16/02/2025

Trump and Musk are destroying public services. Everybody, including the people who voted for them, will be hurt.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 14/02/2025

In light of the destructive path that Trump and the MAGA Republicans are making, one can't help but raise this question. Stars and Stripes Forever? (1970) Visual art by Bill Stettner (Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 17/01/2025

Godard the French film maker said of his work that it was "as if I wanted to write a sociological essay in the form of a novel, and all I had to do it with was notes of music."

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 17/01/2025

Great bedtime read: Tove Jansson's childhood memoir: Sculptor's Daughter has the same whimsy as The Summer Book. #BookSky

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 15/12/2024

Buddhist thought. Your mind has many kinds of seeds -- joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love; craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness. These seeds are always there, sleeping in the soil of your mind. The quality of your life depends on the seeds you water.

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 11/12/2024

Novels by Yuri Herrera are spell-binding. #booksky

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 28/11/2024

Great read: Your Absence is Darkness by Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánnson. Historical fiction, metafiction, & love story. #booksky

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Sheila Packa @sheilapacka.com · 26/11/2024

Great Icelandic Literature: The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness. #booksky

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