Hey there, everyone!
It’s been a while. Last week was actually first week that I “skipped” on Substack for a long time. Honestly, it was nice to be able to tell myself, “You know what? It’s okay if you miss a week.” I was also pretty sick, and am only recently revived. I don’t know what’s going around, but it’s a bulldozer!
During the week, I feel like I thought of a hundred ideas for what to write about here today. But now that the day is upon us, I’m just drawing blanks.
The world is just in a sad, scary place right now, and it’s hard to reconcile holding those sad things in my mind and also enjoying myself sometimes.
I painted the weird little alcove space in my beautiful home.
About a 100 little kids died in their school this past week, likely a “precision” target by the US military looking at an outdated map. Where are those protests, pro-lifers?
I watched a great show, Common Side Effects.
Capitalism still has us all by the balls and I am acutely aware that I will never retire (I think my generation will basically die in the streets when we’re old, and then the next generation will be horrified and re-invent the safety net).
I have lots of lavender and rosemary in my backyard and am very excited because my sewing friend and I are going to make eye pillows for ourselves and our friends.
AI’s poised to do away with all our jobs (whether its better than us or not matters not), and there is no plan for preventing absolute fucking chaos and suffering.
I put an adorable new purple collar on my cat today, with a little bell. I saw a bunch of yellow breasted birds and a cardinal hanging out today, too.
It’s all just a mixed bag of horror and awesomeness, and we’re all just rolling with the punches, and looking for things to keep us sane.
I hope y’all are doing okay. I’ll be back next week with — hopefully — some more focused thoughts.
Such contrasts between lovely domestic moments and the US busy becoming the Great Satan.
Nice!