And amen. (Mary Oliver, “It Was Early”)
I was tinkering with my CSS last night when the micro.blog server went out and LET ME TELL YOU about the small heart attack I had when I thought for a few seconds that I’d somehow irretrievably broken my entire mb site/account/access….
🥾 today’s hiking church — couple of inches of snow made it so pretty.
being the dumbest person in the room:
I love learning not for an end goal (though sometimes I have those). I love learning as a process. It’s a meaningful, enjoyable activity, a damn good way to spend my hours.
One of the things I enjoy most about microblog: many opportunities for learning. People here are always talking about/sharing interesting stuff.
Finished reading: A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross 📚
Surprisingly deep and tender, with layers I didn’t expect and complex relationships. I was a tad disappointed with the ending, which felt forced into a certain setup. But I’ll definitely be reading the sequel.
Finished reading: The Farthest Shore by Ursula K 📚
Finished reading: The Tombs of Atuan (2) (Earthsea Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
Every day I wake up and thank God that I did not have access to social media or dating apps in my teen years or early adulthood
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, I…. Got my taxes done. 😍😅Me and the IRS, a love story I never expected. Meet cute at HR Block.
Think I’ll buy myself some roses with that refund…
📺 Fargo - Season 1 A goddamn delight.
what am I missing here… preview looks fine, published post is all [[[()()([][][]
January reading:
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt / h/t miljko
- Railsea by China Miéville
- When Your Lover Is a Liar by Susan Forward
R (16yo): Mom lemme hook you up with some sick pants. Try these on.
Heavy wide leg too-big denim taking me right back to the 90s.
Lately my youngest has expressed an interest in religion, which is fine. But I gotta say it’s a little weird when she brings home church info from a friend. I’ve talked to the Mom of this friend before and I think there’s a bit of (attempted) proselytizing in play. I don’t mind at all if my kiddo wants to go to church with a friend but it’s funny/weird to be in this position, being a recipient of “outreach” from the religion I grew up in.
From the last few hikes 🥾
WUT
Finished reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
Somehow I read Tombs of Atuan several years ago, but skipped this one, the first in the Earthsea series. As always, I love Le Guin’s writing, her focus on characters (i.e. character development is not central to the plot, but IS the plot), and her particular way of balancing specificity, detail, with trusting the reader to fill in the blanks. I think she gets it right every time.
Finished reading: White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad 📚
Everything I might say about this book seems inadequate, so I’ll just say this: If you, like me, are a white woman, you should read it.
who’s doing newsletters via microblog? one of my projects for january is to move my newsletter. it’s either buttondown or microblog.
We’ve tried making Big Tech into better tech for decades. That project has been an abject failure. To make tech better, we have to make it smaller—small enough that the bad ideas, carelessness and blind spots of individual tech leaders are their problems, not everyone else’s. We need lots of tech, run by lots of different kinds of people and organizations, and we need to make it as close to costless as possible to switch from one to the other.
Currently reading: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚