🥳 Feria de los liiiibros! Quién quiere ir conmigo esta semana? 👀

(Book fair in Medellín! Who wants to go with me this week?!) #Colombia

Sending a random burst of love, well-wishing, and warmth @NiveusLepus's way.

I hope our dear Bun and buddy is taking good care of herself. The work of being present so much and so often with others is wonderful *and* can take a toll.

May you always feel supported in turn, and remember that your core value lies not in what you *do* for others, but in the sheer fact of being you. 🫂💜

Weekend #Ekphrasis challenge, for those who follow #CoSoArt. (Shall we make this a "thing", for those who want more creative expression shared on CoSo?)

This is "The Watcher" by Kellen Rodrigues. What writing, music, or visual art does it inspire from you?

#Poetry #WritersOfCoSo #WritingCommunity

@ACG2

Beating you to it today, bright star! 💫 💛

Good morning and good caffeination to you! 😊 ☕

Lucky #BugFriend, perfectly suited to blend into their environment. 💛

It's utterly bonkers that we ever think of our societies as just.

At best, we're a mess of people with loosely related notions of common destiny, burning with competing internal convictions of what justice entails, trying to scrape out small, reactive wins in systems broken by design.

The cruelty of humanity, and its strategic indifference to *some* suffering, is never surprising.

What's surprising is the hope we still carry into the fight for something better, age after wounded age. #History

Early morning recording finished, and now out for a run before the editing ensues. :)

Morning, CoSo!

Colombians are out en masse in their colours for tonight's game against Perú, so I guess the country has recovered from that agonizing defeat. 🙃 I have writing to do when I get home, but I think I've huffed enough everyday joy to get me through the night all the same.

As much as people make me grouchy sometimes, they also make me smile.

Today, walking through the mall, I saw a young kid about to burst into tears over pickles in his food court sandwich, but BIG BROTHER (not that one--the good kind) was right on hand, showing him that the pickles could come off, and swapping out a pickle-cleaned top-bun in no time at all. The eldest couldn't have been more than eight, but what a gift of care he's already mastered.

A silly start to the day, but a great end. 💛

😍 There is a skating rink (for kids) in my mall this season! Usually I only see wee set-ups in the fancy malls for December.

Ah, memories. #Canuck in #Colombia

Gosh, I love you folks.

It's not easy, but we *do* try to sit with serious issues together, to stretch in our discomfort, and to hold space for differences in communication style and baseline perspective.

And I appreciate the *heck* out of this over the tempests in teapots that fill my feeds in many other spheres.

It ain't easy to be openly, messily human with one another.

But boy howdy, do we try!

#Gaza

Resilience is an extraordinary thing.

We don't share many videos here of everyday citizens in Gaza. Many of us see them elsewhere, but here there's a deep fear of aiding and abetting simply for the audacity of keeping humans human in war.

It makes this space a bit more siloed than some.

This is a gentle video about urban gardening in wartime Gaza. Its lesson? Wherever we are, whatever hardships exist, there is always good we can do for one another. That is all.
https://youtu.be/dCh1huJCb8w

Offline to get a heck of a lot of focus-intensive work done by end-of-day.

Wishing you all

a) glorious weather,
b) goodness in community,
c) goofy moments, and
d) grace with yourselves, come what may.

🕊️

The saga of the hippos continues. 😅

Now the ecological problem lies with *dead* hippos gumming up the rivers.

#Colombia

😅 Well I feel seen.

*Feminized people. This is why I don't care as much when people use she instead of they / no pronouns. I *never* feel a sense of gender except when I have gender expectations heaped on me by dudes on the street, but that's the real threat in my life.

Earlier this year, I let this get to me & stopped going outside as often, exercising, etc. Gained weight, lost muscle, lived with way more stress in my body overall.

But so help me, self-centred dudes aside, I am not letting this get to me again.

Having a good test of my patience.

Today a park guard asked me for my number, after calling me over I thought for something important. He was with a female guard at the time, so I focused on her & discussed openly how hard it is for women* to exist in public without constantly being approached by men, to which she agreed. *For a second* he seemed to process this too.

But then he jogged over to where I was doing my last set of reps to ask me out again.

I just... 🤦🏻‍♂️

The other animals are great.