Inspired by @corlin's latest post on the return of #Print...
We're all old enough to have been in the trenches with 'zine culture, right? 👀 Hand-printed, cut, collaged, block-painted, haphazardly aligned, chaotically edited ziiiiines! (You know what I mean. 🤟)
So! Question for you louts:
If you were to start a 'zine today, in the style of one of those grand old pubs, what would you call it and what would it be about?
I have the deepest gratitude to everyone who makes the world a safer place for children, especially after knowing unsafe places themselves as a child, and for everyone who strives to that better end only to have Life get in the way.
Thank you for doing the best you can. 🌺 Happiest of necessarily messy days.
Okay, it *possibly* wasn't the best idea to traipse about in the rain after being sick in bed all day yesterday (yes, apparently I *am* still in touch with my inner six-year-old, why do you ask?).
Hot shower, broth, and more meds just in case I overestimated my recovery, based on the sudden nausea and headache coming on.
But it was a GLORIOUS downpour, so if I die from this, I regret nothing.* 🌈
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*Maybe should've touched more knockers. But that's a perpetual condition!
In the rain, two families living rough set their dirty strollers together at an underpass. The mums conversed, & a boy about 8 didn't need any prompting as he took his baby sister to meet the toddler of the other mum. Then he showed them flowers on a nearby tree while keeping them in the dry zone. This is a child who most likely is not in school, but the things he's learned on the street still haven't made him cruel.
Would that we could build a world where more such kindness could be preserved.
@cmskiera! I haven't forgotten you. Expect an email ping on my return to see how things are faring on your end!
I have the post-sitting-too-long sillies and am going for a walk.
How are you touching grass today?
Have you talked to a bug, a flower, or a tree?
Hugged/high-fived a loved one?
Put your phone on airplane mode for an hour or three, so that you can pace yourself when absorbing all the crushing failures of the world about which you can do nothing, nothing at all?
...Hydrated?
(3/4 ain't bad!)
For those of you with a #Space and/or #Law bent ...
The University of Mississippi has one of the leading space law programs in the U.S. They've published the "Space Law Quick Reference," which is available for free as a PDF.
When I did education at #KSC, I often told people with a space legal bent to check out Old Miss. Download the PDF if you're a space dork like me.
https://airandspacelaw.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Space-Law-Quick-Reference-Ole-Miss.pdf
😂 I just came out of a volunteer meeting for a group I co-ordinate, in which we were given the highest praise for being an exemplar by which staff in the organization measure other committees.
I'm laughing, though, because from my side, it feels like I'm sitting in a house on fire whenever it comes to task management for this group. I ALWAYS feel behind on my work for this team.
But hey! Apparently we clean up well enough that the singe marks on our product output aren't noticeable to all. 👌🎉
We atheists hold a funny POV, because if/when we're "proven" correct, we won't be around to go "Ha! You see?!" to all the rest.
Properly processed, though, this should make us realize that we won't get the last word in most situations. I'll have my truth, you'll have yours, and we'll either live together as best we can with our convictions... or rush each other even faster to dust.
Proving that we were "right" isn't how we live well.
It's how we show up for each other in the fray that counts.
OK, this piece is NOT getting finished before midnight - burning overnight oil on it instead - but I'm checking in to give a quick salute to @th3j35t3r, for creating a space that can endure all the nonsense that passes for conflict online.
Power lies in more than its use; it also lies in knowing when to use restraint. That's a talent not always shown in the analog world, let alone online--where a sense of entitlement abounds.
Cheers J! Hope you're keeping sane(ish). 👌
Thanks for all you do.
Ha! Get out of my brain.
I was thinking of writing on Wings of Desire (and Faraway, So Close!) next Monday, and yet, there's already this lovely piece from our own @LiberalLibrarian today at The Establishment Bar, about this gem of a reflection on postwar humanity (which is also one of my top two films, the other being Ikiru).
Thanks for this beauty of a piece, LL!
#CoSoFilms
https://follow.it/the-establishment-bar/temp/OTUyMjczMjEy
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