It's close to 2 am, and I'll (have to) be up again at 6 to get Nu ready (chat, cuddle, breakfast) for (online) school.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
not/normal
Monday, May 24, 2021
quiet
Sunday, May 23, 2021
easy like Sunday afternoon
(I needed this interlude today--I made an impulsive grocery trip to get some ingredients for Big A's Boss Day dinner and OMG all the unmasked people.)
Over on Scroll, a shortlist of seven philosophers who can help us build back a better post-pandemic world.
Saturday, May 22, 2021
passing/passage
So this was me for the rest of the evening as I started and finished a novel--Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half--in one long gulp. I read the parts about passing breathlessly--racial passing + gender/trans passing. And it began to feel like being an immigrant is also somewhat like passing--in the sense that you leave an old self behind, propelled as much by necessity and accident as by some form of selfishness/self-centeredness.
Friday, May 21, 2021
conflict
[Pic from At's protest outside Rep. Elissa Slotkin's office this week.]
Thursday, May 20, 2021
scene
these flowers are alight
opening in hemispheres
my mind skips out of context
out of focus, a confused state
I am eaten by the earth
I am circled by the eddy
my breath swells with longing
my heartbeat meets in collapse
[Pic: MSU Walled Garden, 5/17/2021]
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
context
accomplishing joy
surfacing tree brown
I come back to my body
through the sacred,
absurd landscape
of patience
[Pic: Scout and Huck hanging out with me in puppy pose.]
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
perspective
He was famous/semi-famous, and I expect the case was media fodder in the UK for a while. I feel awful that I've sometimes used his early English music ensembles in classes... I will not do this again.
(Pic is of our only east-facing window; I wish we had more. The tradescantia and pothos cuttings I pinched off and stuck into candleholders have rooted and are taking off. Funny how that works.)
Monday, May 17, 2021
focus
Lots of stuff going on--including working in my office, office visits at various doctors etc., but a walk with JG and a porch hang with KB and... hours of jabber and banter are the points I want to remember from today.
(Spot the bunny in the picture!)
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Saturday, May 15, 2021
shit shit shit
it's old and faded now
A lthough we always felt some pity for her by that point in our visit when our Dorakanti grandmother would lament that though she'd y...
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Friends and old neighbors shutting it down in honor of John Crawford. _
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I have the feeling that I’m going to succumb to the season and put out a list of resolutions soon. Just wanted to establish this heads up th...
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At had us pose for this pic up at Aunt R's place on Lake Huron so he could put it up in his dorm. "Don't tur...