Also: I cannot fully describe the rest and joy I feel when I run into trans folk in my building. Most paisas are *very* much live & let live - which doesn't mean that trans folk don't endure prejudice & abuse, but does mean that I'm not living in an everyday culture of politically amplified anti-trans rhetoric like... ah... some batshit states of hate I could name. π My home always feels so much safer after I've had a nice chat with some of many my beautiful neighbours across the rainbow. β€οΈπ
Oh typos. Keeping me humble. π
Hope everyone has a decent day & is super gentle with themselves.
There is so much hurt in our world--& we can't fix or even try to address it all.
So build up your reserves on the days when there's no clear path to change.
& tread lightly with others.
Porque nadie sabe lo que estΓ‘ pasadando en la vida de otra persona.
No one truly knows what anyone else is going through.
But we will surely wound each other further, if we're not careful with our own wounds.
I've learned it is risky trying to read your posts when fresh. I know you are scanning for typos and as likely as not will re-draft, yanking it from my screen :)
I find myself moving slower in life in many ways as I age, not that I am tired or weak, quite the opposite. I know the damage I can do.
I move now like I am navigating around a sleeping black dog in a dark room.
On the phone, I'm fighting Spanish autocorrect whenever I type in English, so Spanish autocorrect is learning some... odd English exceptions over time.
At my computer my posts are always cleaner from the get-go, but thank you for your patience all the same!
And I appreciate that "slowness". I'm striving for the same. For me, it begins with noticing that much of what I take for righteous response might also be trauma-informed. Doesn't negate my outrage! But it does affect its utility.
Oh! But there is also another silly bugbear that affects my posts. π€
The line width on the text box in CoSo is a little longer than the line width for the final column on both desktop and mobile versions, which means that the editor in me sometimes re-edits a post just to get rid of surprise "orphans": single words on a line of their own in the final post.
Pure aesthetic nonsense carried over from my work as an editor of print publications. I'm trying to let go of that bugbear, too.
I know just what you mean. It is completely different in Simplified mode as well.
Also, have you tried playing with the drag handles at the right edges of the column headings?
I would not mind a tiny bit more formatting control :)
Oh, I just tried that on my desktop now! Doesn't fix the mobile, but what a lovely restful difference for my eyes at the computer. Thanks for the tip!
Hm! We have cultural norms for print publications, which can vary based on the reading level of a text: generally 10-13 words per line for lower- to mid-level reading (i.e., the texts with shorter words!), and 8-10 words per line for higher-level reads.
But online reading is different. For instance, sans serif works better online than it does for analog text, and we're not trained for monotype and double-space sentence starts anymore (a standard for the typewriter era).
Yes, 8 to 10 feels about optimal for me. I never thought about that before, but I know often the narrow columns feel pinched, and I get lost on too long lines :)
I have now widened my CoSo column widths on the desktop to around 8 words per line, and I feel *such* a sense of rest. Thanks again for the lovely tip!
@MLClark
As a writer, perhaps you are aware of an optimal line length for normal reading?
Like the optimal word chunk size for eye and brain?
The narrow columns do have a bit too much horizontal *bounce* to me, where as full screen is too long a trail of words to follow :)