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Joshua Whiting

learner, writer, creator, librarianish person

Welcome to joshuaw.xyz, my home at the end of the internet.

My name is Joshua Whiting (he/they). I am a dad, a husband, a media specialist / librarianish person in the educational technology department of a school district, a sometimes writer, and maybe some other things.

I want to learn about, write, and make more things, and I wanted a place of my own to put those things, so I created this site. This is my main venue for creative activity and publication on the internet.

You can scroll down for links to recent notes, or find a menu of additional features by clicking on the [ + ] sign in the top right corner of this web page.

Thanks for visiting.

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Image from note Reading Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Image from note Reading Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Image from note Ant on Flower Buds Image from note sun in the elms after the rainstorm Image from note morning backyard through bedroom window Image from note morning backyard through bedroom window Image from note My Backyard Desk Image from note Reading The Hobbit with my son

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2022.06.19

i’m paddling my way through Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, though it is definitely taking me more than a week.

Picture of my Library of America Thoreau volume open to ‘Monday’ from ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers’

I have this Library of America edition, but I’m actually mainly reading it on my phone - Standard Ebooks edition, added to the iOS Books app. The LoA edition has reference notes, so I look at it when I can, but I actually like reading on my phone.

[ Full post: Reading Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ]


2022.06.19

Ant crawling on flower buds - animated

A large ant crawling on the buds of some plant growing through the fence from our neighbors' yard.

Ant crawling on flower buds - still

[ Full post: Ant on Flower Buds ]


2022.06.23

Here are some of the things I’m working on and thinking about now…

[ Full post: Now (June 23, 2022) ]


2022.06.23

Sun in elms after the rainstorm

Evening sun breaking through the clouds to some of the upper bows of the Siberian Elms after the rainstorm.

[ Full post: sun in the elms after the rainstorm ]


2022.06.24

morning backyard through bedroom window - 01

morning backyard through bedroom window - 02

[ Full post: morning backyard through bedroom window ]


2022.06.18

Update: my wife referred to this as my “moveable grotto,” which is ridiculous, but probably better. Definitely better.

Original: a view from my backyard “desk” just as I was creating the home page for my new “digital” garden.

At my “desk” in my backyard

[ Full post: My Backyard Desk ]


2022.06.18

Update: I’m sort of trying to implement webmentions on this website. I think I’m halfway there but I don’t really have any way to actually know because I don’t have any friends and I don’t share anything anywhere anymore.

[ Full post: Webmentions ]


2022.06.18

This is the first seed I’m planting in my digital garden: notes, links, and ideas about digital gardening itself.

[ Full post: Digital Gardening ]

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