So much awesomeness from Adrienne:
"If there was a homework assignment for us...think how do we use technology to deepen the patterns that we want to grow, rather than just participate in the patterns that we actually say we are against?
Look at your social media realm or any kind of media realm. Does this pattern that I'm participating in grow the depth of my experience as a human being...and depth of my experience as someone who can love and be intimate in real time?"
"So much of how I interact with social media is 'How do I uplift connectivity, vulnerability, and intimacy and how do I do away with the rest?'
I'm not here for the callout culture...for the takedown culture...for even just repeating all the horrific news....Where can I find the most loving, generative, creative patterns where I can be vulnerable? Because I need that."
- Adrienne Maree Brown https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/blog/2018/5/8/in-the-pattern
I'm not sure where you are right now, but we should be dancing together in the mosaic shower at the Institute of Empathy.
@fluffy It's so good! I was just playing the original this morning.
This post is a reminder that it's OK to take a break from this.
Just maximize this post and sit with it for a few seconds.
You're OK. I believe in you.
@brook Yes! It's in our neighborhood and might be new since you last lived here.
@brook It was a beautiful solstice sunset! I spent it at Solstice Park, where the earthworks line up with the sunset on the solstices and equinoxes.
This fucking sucks and I am disappointed. https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548
the quality content you signed up for #mastoart #creativetoots #dancing
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@susannah I love short stories, so in that category on Small Beer, Maureen McHugh is one of my favorite writers, and I also really like Kelly Link's stories. Alan DeNiro's Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead was good too. And I got into Small Beer through their journal Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
On the novel front, I liked Sean Stewart's Mockingbird and am working my way through Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria. http://smallbeerpress.com/books-by-author/
I haven't read Elemental Logic. Thanks!
@susannah I love Weightless Books! I got into buying books there from Small Beer Press, the publisher that they also own that puts out some good stuff.
@susannah Same! I think it took me over a month to get through. Glad you are appreciating it too.
Today I'm appreciating Carmen Maria Machado's short story collection Her Body and Other Parties and @Heliodora for reminding me to check it out! As the name suggests, the stories all have a common theme of women and how they relate to their bodies. It is one of my favorite genres of writing, the genre that pays no attention to genre boundaries at all. It includes one story written entirely as episode synopses of a TV show. https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/her-body-and-other-parties
What are you appreciating today?
@melissaaveryweir Sounds and looks like a lot of fun! I love co-op. Thanks for recommending it!
@Fritillaria2 It's been a little while but I think I've seen them twice at The Showbox and once eleven years ago at Coachella because I was down there for a friend's wedding. So fun!
@Fritillaria2 So great for dancing and getting caught up in the music.
@Fritillaria2 I saw De/Vision on one of their trips through Seattle and it was totally worth it. Should be a lot of fun at the Neptune.
