We must protect and take care of each other.

if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."

i love you libraries i love you museums i love you botanical gardens i love you public parks i love you art galleries

“I have too many books”
-judgemental
-boring
-implies impulse-control issues

“The books... they have me.”
- mysterious
- occult
- implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage

#readingcommunity

If you’d like to practice or learn some mindfulness today, I’d like to share with you a Haudenosuanee Thanksgiving Address. This is something we say before ANY gathering, cultural ceremony, or major meal.

I hope this gives you some insight into how we view the world. It’s the antidote 🧡

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Bit of a reverse Black Friday tip. Go buy a book from an independent bookshop. While the richest companies in the world have another bonanza, put a smile on the face of a struggling writer and bookseller. Thank you x

*sigh*

Anyway, just create. Write shit, draw shit, build whatever you want, that's the important part.

There's no be-all end-all formula for the Perfect Work.

Just be YOU. No one can ever create what YOU create b/c it's you making it, and you are the only you.

If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.

⋆ ˚｡⋆bookish checkpoint ⋆｡. -ʚɞ

✧ last book read: The Palestine Laboratory - Antony Loewenstein
✧ current read: Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
✧ last book added to tbr: Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear - Mosab Abu Toha
✧ next anticipated read: Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin