Change is possible for everyone, cats and people!! I'm hoping our very boundaried, noli me tangere permanent adult cat will be able to gracefully adapt to us keeping one of these kittens... they have so far only grumbled at each other through a door... 🤞

Witnessing cat family dynamics up close makes me see how much their emotions/relationships are completely not like humans' - yet my human projections are the inescapable framework I bring to living with them. 🤷 Splitting up this family feels so morally wrong, even though I know it's right for them!

conversely, the novel which should
have been a short story is maddening in a special way

As a writer/editor as well as theater maker, I have gotten to experience the larva-to-butterfly cycle of creative production from many vantage points. Whether it's 📖 or 🤸‍♀️, an outside eye who will lovingly but objectively encounter your work-in-progress is the highest gift.

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

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dang wish I could time travel for Philly tix! ty for the new album it's amazing

Ironic that the LLM ingested incalculable amounts of natural language - books, articles, forum posts - and is offering me their summary, but won't let me access the juice it fed on. 🌊🔏 As a writer I'm an LLM too. It construes me as both client and competitor.

And honestly for that purpose (yes, lizards have hips!) Google's AI summary is useful. But often I want from Google searches is less factual information and more "do people naturally use language this way?" and unfortunately the AI-ification of #search is TERRIBLE for that.

It's been a good month for repetitive tasks accompanied by audiobook! Of course Miranda July is a skilled performer who makes her own novel even more enjoyable. By contrast I gotta confess both the prose and narration of "Bury Our Bones" feel stuck on a "my first adult novel" setting 🎭📈

My BFF has been practicing her own 🪡, more precise and traditional. She mended and decorated my beloved GAMES GAMES GAMES art supplies tote bag for me, I'm so in love with the results! (Washed before she got it, all stains are permanent!)

so true!! I love having a process like Liz Lerman's Critical Response zpuppets.org/critical-res...