Some mornings I still wake thinking I'm reaching the point where I'll have to give up. The possibility becomes more pressing every time I release more content (like today, my final miniseries on migration & mobility rights).

One comfort is Robert Walser. When he consigned himself to an asylum, some tried to get him to create more work. His reply? "I've come here not to write but to be mad."

It's all about conviction. :)

Time to focus on today's launch, not tomorrow's losses. Morning, CoSo. 💛

I hate how hard our fragmented, gamified social media is making the dissemination of key civic data.

Take this video of NC Senator Natasha Marcus outlining how many so-called pregnancy centers are just fronts to siphon public money into private hands (& of course, under the veneer of US political Christianity).

Posted on TikTok. Reposted on reddit.

What we need is responsible media to make civic knowledge easier to attain. But how do we build better public platforms?

https://reddit.com/r/NorthCarolina/s/9us5mF4EOV

I love English translation quirks on clothes here. :) I bet we have tons of Spanish errors on clothes up north, too, but it's just hilarious to think of English-ese as enough of a draw that errors don't matter.

#AmWriting

Okay. Getting silly/restless at my desk, so it is off to the mall to refocus on an editing project for the rest of the afternoon.

Big love! 😘 Not in the cult-y bigamist sense, but all other arrangements enthusiastically consented to by all participants are definitely up for grabs. 👌

I know there's a lot of talk about one person's scandalous financial lies & how much they served as the foundation for a career of lies...

But don't forget to sit with the twinned grief in this horrible story: the illusion of wealth that runs this world while most people agonize over an inability to make enough to live with even a little security.

The headline is clickbait.
The reality is a painful reminder of systemic injustice.

Be gentle with yourself for doing what you can in rigged games.

Ah! Brilliant!

@JakeA is online, so I'm seizing the moment to celebrate this wonderful person the way I did many others while soused.

The thing is, I met Jake on the X-bird, & he was *immediately* so much kinder and genuine-interaction focused than most folks who perform/market themselves in our SFF world there.

He stood out as a thoughtful presence who loved reading, writing, and exploring with a genuinely curious and questing energy.

Also: Endorsed by a lovely cat. Bonus points for that. 😉

Best part of being up early is peace and quiet while working out in public.

Also, getting to ogle the awkward growth phases of local plant life in peace, too. 😊

💪 Up before the alarm, leaping out of bed for early exercise. Good.

Returning to old routines is *such* a rest. Morning, CoSo! Hope you've found your groove this week, too.

Okay, CoSo.

I wrote a piece to offer some deeper and important history surrounding the latest mess in Canadian Parliament.

Yes, the Speaker has resigned.

But that's where the danger begins: when we have an easy target, which allows us to avoid thinking about the historical illiteracy that underpins these errors and allows old wounds to be opened and leveraged in current wars.

History is always a casualty of war. But if we can lessen the size of the wound, we should.

https://onlysky.media/mclark/war-makes-us-terrible-historians/

I'm revising 3-4 chapters of the "anti-memoir" right now, so I'm especially attuned to good examples of the original form.

The first act in this episode of This American Life is a wry, tender, thought-provoking look at an assisted suicide as planned by an older couple: told from the perspective of the surviving wife, about her larger than life husband in his declining years with Alzheimer's.

It's wise in the details, honest where it hurts, and deep in its humanity.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/779/ends-of-the-earth

A lil' Hegel with your morning ☕, CoSo. 💫

I was thinking on Phenomenology of Spirit while trying to put my finger on a major problem with online discourse: the absolutism of truth & falsity it cultivates; the rush to refute or affirm placed well above the value of holding ideas in tension.

Reflecting on ideas in tension isn't apolitical, sadly.

Nuance is a privilege when surrounded by bad actors.

But man, we've lost *so much* to the ongoing work of limiting the harm they all do.

#Philosophy

🙂 No lie, no liquor --

I love you rotters something fierce.

I am *a lot*. Life is, too.

(I'm starting to think none of us gets out of this alive! 🙃)

But when I pop on here, I see people who know how to live with a spirit of convivencia: neighbourly conduct.

We're messy. Quirky. Uneven. Carrying burdens all our own, through personalities and worldviews that don't always agree... but also *don't have to*.

We're here. We're trying.
And we're giving grace to others trying, too.
Thank *you*. 🕊️

This phone camera can never capture reds properly, but you get the idea. 💛

:) Hopped out of bed at the alarm.

Oh, this is a good sign. Time for a run.

Good morning and good Tuesday, CoSo!

Okay, all you pathological beauties and wanton abusers of self/drink!

It's past bedtime for me. Please lock your own cage doors on your way out - and see you in the morn! 😘

😂 CoSo!

Choose your reason for being committed from this fine chart of asylum admissions, 1864-1889, will you? What're you in for?