Amy Wilde
@amywilde.bsky.social
Carbon-based life form writing about scent and memory • 2024 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest finalist • Care Bear in a human suit
This week’s volume of Brown Paper Packages has it all: regenerative sea slugs, a dose of Mary Oliver, and the best & baddest drag queen Texas ever saw, for starters brownpaperpackages.ghost.io/soft-animals/
Soft animals
How we doin', babes? We hydrating, trying to sleep, doing the things? I'll admit I'm struggling to come up with appropriately welcoming (but not too perky) intros to these little weeklies. The copywri...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This week’s volume of Brown Paper Packages has it all: regenerative sea slugs, a dose of Mary Oliver, and the best & baddest drag queen Texas ever saw, for starters brownpaperpackages.ghost.io/soft-animals/
Here’s another weekly(ish) installment of seven shareable pleasures and connective ideas to calm your nervous system and gently urge you forward. This week’s highlights: food forests, punk noir art, makeout sessions, a deep look at the cosmos & more. brownpaperpackages.ghost.io/wanna-get-ou...
Wanna get out of here?
Someone I follow on one of the apps wrote something a few weeks (or months? it was probably months) ago like "I've now said the phrase 'what a time to be alive' to so many people so many times, I want...
brownpaperpackages.ghost.io
May 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Here’s another weekly(ish) installment of seven shareable pleasures and connective ideas to calm your nervous system and gently urge you forward. This week’s highlights: food forests, punk noir art, makeout sessions, a deep look at the cosmos & more. brownpaperpackages.ghost.io/wanna-get-ou...
A few months ago, I started a free newsletter of shareable pleasures and connective ideas for deeply chaotic times. This week’s volume includes, among other things: good dogs, kind neighbors, attention restoration theory, and a DJ set of Sadé deep cuts. brownpaperpackages.ghost.io/on-attention...
On attention restoration
Here's an incomplete list of things that have brought me peace lately: hot-then-cold showers, cleaning out my aerogardens and reseeding the herbs and lettuce while the cherry tomatoes (see above—h8rs ...
brownpaperpackages.ghost.io
May 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A few months ago, I started a free newsletter of shareable pleasures and connective ideas for deeply chaotic times. This week’s volume includes, among other things: good dogs, kind neighbors, attention restoration theory, and a DJ set of Sadé deep cuts. brownpaperpackages.ghost.io/on-attention...
Very wary of yet! another! platform! but here goes: hi from a part-time optimist, word nerd, scent enthusiast and perpetual late bloomer out here in Austin, Texas. If you’re into #communitycare, #mutualaid, #biophilia, #books, #plants, #perfume, and not acting like a knob, come sit by me.
January 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Very wary of yet! another! platform! but here goes: hi from a part-time optimist, word nerd, scent enthusiast and perpetual late bloomer out here in Austin, Texas. If you’re into #communitycare, #mutualaid, #biophilia, #books, #plants, #perfume, and not acting like a knob, come sit by me.