Can't wait for your questions about #homeiswherewestart 💙💚💛
August 18, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Can't wait for your questions about #homeiswherewestart 💙💚💛
Finished #Septology which was amazing! Will start #Pnin #Nabokov24 before #Crossman24 #HomeisWhereWeStart starts October 1st. Have Pnin on your shelves? Join me.
September 28, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Finished #Septology which was amazing! Will start #Pnin #Nabokov24 before #Crossman24 #HomeisWhereWeStart starts October 1st. Have Pnin on your shelves? Join me.
In the only few snapshots taken by my aunt from these first six years of my life, my sister, my brother and l appear blurred next to the wooden fence. There is a sense things lost.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 3, 2024 at 12:25 PM
In the only few snapshots taken by my aunt from these first six years of my life, my sister, my brother and l appear blurred next to the wooden fence. There is a sense things lost.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
Italo Calvino wrote most things about you.' In our Kitchen, flies buzz over from the plates, but the sticky papers that our over from the ceiling have gone.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 16, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Italo Calvino wrote most things about you.' In our Kitchen, flies buzz over from the plates, but the sticky papers that our over from the ceiling have gone.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
In their bedrooms and the Kitchen, while they gulp sweetened tea, instant coffee and puff on roll-ups, I talk to these men. Some of them are kind, and some are not. For years, they will be my friends. My best friends.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 11, 2024 at 11:55 AM
In their bedrooms and the Kitchen, while they gulp sweetened tea, instant coffee and puff on roll-ups, I talk to these men. Some of them are kind, and some are not. For years, they will be my friends. My best friends.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
Lawrence quotes Martin Luther King, saying that a riot is 'the language of the unheard'. King was not condoning violence, but warning that riots occur when there is a deep injustice that a society or group fails to recognize or hear.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 6, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Lawrence quotes Martin Luther King, saying that a riot is 'the language of the unheard'. King was not condoning violence, but warning that riots occur when there is a deep injustice that a society or group fails to recognize or hear.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
But as I write this, I wonder whether it was enough, or whether it was outweighed by the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months when we were sucked into the group - the glorious, treacherous, beating river of the crowd.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 7, 2024 at 1:58 PM
But as I write this, I wonder whether it was enough, or whether it was outweighed by the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months when we were sucked into the group - the glorious, treacherous, beating river of the crowd.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart #readinganactofsharedsolitude #paperpills💊 #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #ReemReel #AThingOfBeauty
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October 15, 2024 at 5:50 PM
It's publication day for #HomeIsWhereWeStart my memoir about growing up in a utopian community, exploring the many meanings of home. 🎉🎉🎉!
Writing this book has been a wild and wonderful journey, and a joy and privilege to work with FigTree, Penguin and Craig Literary. 💚💙💛
Writing this book has been a wild and wonderful journey, and a joy and privilege to work with FigTree, Penguin and Craig Literary. 💚💙💛
August 15, 2024 at 9:20 AM
It's publication day for #HomeIsWhereWeStart my memoir about growing up in a utopian community, exploring the many meanings of home. 🎉🎉🎉!
Writing this book has been a wild and wonderful journey, and a joy and privilege to work with FigTree, Penguin and Craig Literary. 💚💙💛
Writing this book has been a wild and wonderful journey, and a joy and privilege to work with FigTree, Penguin and Craig Literary. 💚💙💛
But at school, people call me weird, and it is strange, this solitude, because a child's solitude is a stone. In the palm of your hand, it is insignificant. A stone is a small loneliness, but it contains the history of everything.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 12, 2024 at 12:17 PM
But at school, people call me weird, and it is strange, this solitude, because a child's solitude is a stone. In the palm of your hand, it is insignificant. A stone is a small loneliness, but it contains the history of everything.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
Children of utopian communities are exiled; we cannot ever go home from here.
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 18, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Children of utopian communities are exiled; we cannot ever go home from here.
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
Diane Arbus's words: "There's a quality of legend about freaks...Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.'
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 17, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Diane Arbus's words: "There's a quality of legend about freaks...Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.'
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
I am really looking forward to the Glue Factory tonight to talk about my book #HomeIsWhereWeStart, joining @davidcollard.bsky.social & guests poets S. D. Curtis and Beverley Bie Brahic. It's online, Sunday 18th Aug at 7pm UK time. Invite details here: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2024/08/augu...
August 18, 2024 at 8:26 AM
I am really looking forward to the Glue Factory tonight to talk about my book #HomeIsWhereWeStart, joining @davidcollard.bsky.social & guests poets S. D. Curtis and Beverley Bie Brahic. It's online, Sunday 18th Aug at 7pm UK time. Invite details here: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2024/08/augu...
Later, I will see Mum's book collection as a mirror of her character, both radical and deeply old-fashioned She insists on politeness: 'please' and 'thank you'.#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 2, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Later, I will see Mum's book collection as a mirror of her character, both radical and deeply old-fashioned She insists on politeness: 'please' and 'thank you'.#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
The word 'habitat' leads us to 'habit', and any home has a rhythm, and a domestic micro-culture with a language, rituals and jokes.
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The word 'habitat' leads us to 'habit', and any home has a rhythm, and a domestic micro-culture with a language, rituals and jokes.
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
#Crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
She's our mum, even though you can't say 'mum' in the community.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 1, 2024 at 4:51 PM
She's our mum, even though you can't say 'mum' in the community.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
H. G. Wells described utopias as shadows of light thrown by darkness. The light unfolds and refolds lives. Utopias tend to follow devastating periods, as they are an attempt to look forward and imagine a better world. #crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
December 17, 2024 at 12:22 PM
H. G. Wells described utopias as shadows of light thrown by darkness. The light unfolds and refolds lives. Utopias tend to follow devastating periods, as they are an attempt to look forward and imagine a better world. #crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 18, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Thanks @mbailatj.bsky.social . Really lovely to see #HomeIsWhereWeStart out in the wild, and thrilled that you're already enjoying my book. 💙💛💚
September 8, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Thanks @mbailatj.bsky.social . Really lovely to see #HomeIsWhereWeStart out in the wild, and thrilled that you're already enjoying my book. 💙💛💚
Above the beach, a seagull flies in the wind, carried by gusts of air. A question haunts me: How to look back wards and go forwards?
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 6, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Above the beach, a seagull flies in the wind, carried by gusts of air. A question haunts me: How to look back wards and go forwards?
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
Did you take drugs as a child?' 'Did you witness orgies?' Was it heaven?' 'What about incest?' 'Was your commune a cult?" It feels like each question is inserted gently, like a pin, until I find my past and me splayed open like a butterfly.
#Crossman24
#HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24
#HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 3, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Did you take drugs as a child?' 'Did you witness orgies?' Was it heaven?' 'What about incest?' 'Was your commune a cult?" It feels like each question is inserted gently, like a pin, until I find my past and me splayed open like a butterfly.
#Crossman24
#HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24
#HomeIsWhereWeStart
Our community welcomed Cora inside. As a child it taught me immense tolerance, humanity, and that art, like Cora's extraordinary blankets, is possible everywhere. Yet Cora was also a justification of our way of life.#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 9, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Our community welcomed Cora inside. As a child it taught me immense tolerance, humanity, and that art, like Cora's extraordinary blankets, is possible everywhere. Yet Cora was also a justification of our way of life.#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
Diving deep into the making of life, we are undoing the notion of childhood because they say it was invented like the nuclear family.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
October 1, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Diving deep into the making of life, we are undoing the notion of childhood because they say it was invented like the nuclear family.
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
#Crossman24 #HIWWS #HomeIsWhereWeStart
It was wonderful to work with you on the Aeon essay @marinabenjamin.bsky.social . I can't wait for you to read my memoir #HomeisWhereweStart.
September 21, 2023 at 10:14 AM
It was wonderful to work with you on the Aeon essay @marinabenjamin.bsky.social . I can't wait for you to read my memoir #HomeisWhereweStart.