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Bliss Stations, Low-Information Diets, and Single-Use Objects (aka Unplugging)
I’m doing it! I’m doing it right this moment! Stop it, Christina! Focus! Let’s rewind. I sat down at my computer this morning to write this blogpost, but first I had to gather the links that I’d like...
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OMG Vote
I am emotionally exhausted from this election season. This is more of a rant than a well-heeled argument. I could reread and rewrite a few more times to strip it of my cynicism of your cynicism, to be...
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caught / uncaught
The Saturday after the election, I found myself at the East Bay Meditation Center for a daylong workshop about “Courage at the Crossroads: Faith Over Fear.” The teacher opened the day with reflections...
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Self-care is a series of small actions
Sometimes you go looking for a book, and other times the perfect book seems to find you. As if some unplanned hand is guiding you to exactly what you need to read or hear in that moment. I hadn’t...
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The Politics of Caring
I think I’m just going to go ahead and post this. I don’t think it’s the most well-written post; certainly it is more ramble-bloggy than structured-essay-y. But it IS a record of some of my current...
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Something about Empathy, Something about Trust
So this happened: .@chrislhayes breaks down the stunning drama that unfolded on the Senate floor last night #inners https://t.co/BRMUquOyzg — All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) July 29, 2017 And...
View ArticleOn Patreon and capitalism. On community and artmaking.
((This is a cross-post from my Patreon page.)) Happy new year! I did a reflection of my 2017 and posted a year-end review to my mailing list, which you can read here (and subscribe here). It includes a...
View ArticleThe engine effect
“Everything is an engine” by Linda Holmes. (h/t Laura Olin) “…anything you make – a podcast, a book, a TV show, a business, really any endeavor that you undertake – is not just the thing it is, but...
View ArticleNeeds & Gifts
What do you need? What do you have to give? I was part of a Gift Circle at a potluck I attended yesterday, and we had to create nametags answering those questions. It’s haunting me this morning, as I...
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Dear Daughter, Welcome Back
I’ve reprinted the Dear Daughter zine after slowly letting them go out of print back in 2019! These books, this project, this work, these practices, these ritual experiments resonate with children of...
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