Jimothy Rabbit

01/31/2026

"Freedom from fear should be the main goal of a just society."

-Bhuwan Ribhu

01/29/2026

💜 Proud of all the local Minnesota small businesses who are heeding the call.

Minneapolis small business owners and artists right now:
Holding the whole city together with duct tape, coffee, community love… and whatever inventory we can keep stocked.

It feels chaotic out here. It feels uncertain. And a lot of folks are doing everything they can just to keep their doors open while also showing up for their neighbors.

So yeah, we might joke about it but truly this is the moment to support your local artists, makers, restaurants, bookstores, studios, musicians, and markets.

Follow them.
Share their posts.
Buy a gift.
Commission a piece.
Tell your friends.
Pop in and say hi.

Minneapolis runs on small businesses and creative people. Always has.

And thank you to everyone who has shopped our online store while we shift back into our storefront Monday through Thursday. We are so grateful for the love and patience. We will continue offering pickup options to make things easy and accessible for our community.

Chi migwetch for standing with us and other small local business 🖤

mashkikistudios.co

01/25/2026

Bookstores are an important staple of our community here in Minnesota. Much love to all of our local bookstores as we weather this ICE storm.
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I'm overwhelmed...would be an understatement. I truly appreciate all the words and actions of support people have shown. DreamHaven is a small operation; we're closed on Sundays (I rest sometimes) and our website is not used to handling so many orders. We'll be back in the store on Monday morning and we'll be happy to sort out everyone's orders, questions and comments then. Until then, I'm resting up a bit and calming myself down from my anger and sadness. Be well and safe everyone.

01/20/2026

06/23/2025

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“The Bear Who Carried the Moon Rabbit”

Long ago, when the stars were young,
And the sky had not yet learned silence,
Bear walked alone through the forest of beginnings—
Great and black as midnight's breath.

But Bear was not empty.
Inside his chest, a small light pulsed:
The spirit of Rabbit,
Born from the first moon’s heartbeat.

Rabbit was the Listener,
Keeper of paths unseen.
It was he who taught Bear
To dream while waking,
To follow the wind without question.

Together they crossed the sky’s first snowfall,
Chanted to rivers until they sang,
Danced with the trees until they wept leaves of gold.

People say:
When the world forgets,
When the balance breaks,
Bear rises again with Rabbit glowing in his chest,
To remind the land of old stories—
And teach the night to breathe.

So when you see a shadow deep and quiet,
And the stars shimmer like drumbeats,
Know this:
Bear still walks.
And Rabbit still listens.
And the story has never ended.

02/27/2025

“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin

01/24/2025

✒TODAY'S AUTHOR SNAPSHOT:

Katharine Tynan
(January 23, 1859 – April 2, 1931)

Katharine Tynan was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry.

She usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof.

Tynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875.

Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles, until she married and moved to England.

Tynan was also later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels. She also wrote five autobiographical volumes. Tynans contributed to many periodicals and magazines as well.

She wrote in several genres, including the supernatural, as many authors did at that time. She is most well known for her poetry and romance novels.

📖"Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts."

- Katherine Tynan

📖FEATURED BOOK:

Peep at Many Lands
Tynan, 1911

Katharine Tynan paints a beautifully realistic picture of turn-of-the-century Ireland.

Excerpt: "It may safely be said that any boy or girl who takes a peep at Ireland will want another peep. Between London and Ireland, so far as atmosphere and the feeling of things is concerned, there is a world of distance. Of course, it is the difference between two races, for the Irish are mainly Celtic, and the Celtic way of thinking and speaking and feeling is as different as possible from the Saxon or the Teuton, and the Celt has influenced the Anglo-Irish till they are as far away from the English nearly as the Celts themselves. If you are at all alert, you will begin to find the difference as soon as you step off the London and North Western train at Holyhead and go on board the steamer for Kingstown.

The Irish steward and stewardess will have a very different way from the formal English way. They will be expansive. They will use ten words to one of the English official. Their speech will be picturesque; and if you are gifted with a sense of humour—and if you are not, you had better try to beg, borrow or steal it before you go to Ireland—there will be much to delight you."

⭐TIDBITS:

☆Katherine Tynan's books include illustrations from: Arthur Rackham, G. Demain Hammond, E. A. Cubitt, Lyndsay Symington, C. M. Watts and John Campbell.

☆Tynan was a close associate of and regular correspondent with William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected).

☆The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.

[wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Tynan]

11/19/2024

✒TODAY'S AUTHOR SNAPSHOT:

Ester Blenda Nordström
(March 31, 1891 – October 15, 1948)

Ester Blenda Elisabet Nordström was a Swedish journalist, writer and explorer. She often published her writings under the signature Bansai.

Nordström was a sister to dentist and entomologist Frithiof Nordström, as well as aunt to lyricist Gunilla Sandberg. As a child, she attended Wallinska flickskolan and later Palmgrenska samskolan.

She was a le***an, which at the time was punishable by law and classified as an illness, and had a relationship with Carin Frisell that lasted her entire life.

She wrote for Svenska Dagbladet from 1911 to 1917 under the pen name Bansai. In 1914 she took a job as a maid and reported on her experiences in a reportage series that made her famous: En månad som tjänsteflicka på en gård i Södermanland (A Month as a Servant Girl on a Farm in Södermanland).

She also documented her experiences in a book, "En piga bland pigor" (A Maid Among Maids), which was a success, published in several editions, and even serialized in the 1924 film series of the same name.

Nordström has been called Sweden's first undercover journalist. Nordström continued with investigative journalism. She worked as a teacher in Lappland and lived for one year in Sami society.

In 1914, she published 'En piga bland pigor' which was an early form of investigative journalism and received a lot of attention. She continued with investigative journalism and later wrote reportages about Lapland, USA and Kamchatka.

"...Nordström began working as a journalist under the pseudonym The Boy and, at the age of twenty-three, wrote a best-selling book that exposed the harsh working conditions of household servants in Sweden. A kind of female Bruce Chatwin, Nordstrom toured around Sweden by motorcycle; hitchhiked alone across the U.S., in 1922 (and wrote a book about it); spent five years exploring Kamchatka; wrote a series of young-adult novels about tomboys; and, apparently, caused everyone she encountered,
male and female, to fall in love with
her."

From 1925 to 1929 she was married to entomologist René Malaise and participated in his research in Kamchatka in the Soviet Union.

They both lived in a village there for two years, and Nordström wrote the book "Byn i vulkanens skugga" (The Village in the Shadow of the Volcano).

Nordström was also a pioneer in the field of children's literature, especially in books for girls. The protagonist Ann-Mari Lindelöf is similar to Nordström in, among other things, her social activism. The books describe the young woman's development into self sufficiency, rather than being a story with marriage as the primary goal, which was unusual at the time.

She died on October 15, 1948, at age 57, in Stockholm, Sweden after a lengthy illness. She is buried in Boo gamla kyrkogård.

📖FEATURED BOOK:

Amerikanskt
Nordström, 1923

In 1922, she traveled to New York City on a third-class ticket and worked as a waitress and kitchen help. Later she hitchhiked throughout the US. She published her experiences in the book "Amerikanskt".

[wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ester_Blenda_Nordstrom]

11/18/2024

The stories that endure are the ones we keep alive. Listen to each other's stories.

The Yellow Wall Paper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"A short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction."

"Born on July 3rd, 1860, she was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame."

[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman]
[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wallpaper]

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Free to read print version:

en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Wall_Paper

Free audio version:

youtu.be/rctnjeDBFcY?si=gA8WyBfYPo4DnxR6

11/13/2024

We lose so much if we do not continue to share our stories. Listen to each other's stories.

My Own Story
by Emmeline Pankhurst

"Born on the 15th of July, 1858. She was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back".

[en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst]

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Free to read print book available at:

www.gutenberg.org/files/34856/34856-h/34856-h.htm

Free audiobook version:

librivox.org/my-own-story-by-emmeline-pankhurst/