Good post from Manuel Moreale on the ways in which we label people. Individuals over identities, every time. Labels are only good for statistics and ideology–neither of which are good for anything.
Good post from Manuel Moreale on the ways in which we label people. Individuals over identities, every time. Labels are only good for statistics and ideology–neither of which are good for anything.
I’m (finally!) getting a little better at noticing the mundane causes of my mood. Today I feel extremely bitter and uncaring. Eventually, I realized that I also feel very tired, and then remembered that I went to sleep later than usual, and in a bad mood. A midday nap will fix a good deal of this.
Update to state the obvious: I’m halfway through season two and Twin Peaks is amazing.
I’ve repeatedly thought of the Philip K Dick line: “The symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum.”
Content warning: paganism This year, a few holidays fall into this weekend: Candlemas, St. Brigid’s day, Imbolc. Maybe they’re historically related, maybe they’re not—you’ll have to look into that for yourself. Today I’ll just be writing about our plans. At some point in the past twenty years, I found out about Candlemas and the associated practice of eating crêpes (possibly because of their sun-like appearance?). That sounded good to us so we’ve been eating crêpes by candlelight every Candlemas for a few years now.
I started watching Twin Peaks a few days ago. I know, given my interests and the fact that I’m a Gen X’er, this is ridiculously late. Just finished season one.
Enveloping mist.
Bare trees bloom from the chill gray,
Lonely shapes in black.
Charles Eisenstein: “Economic growth is finding something people used to do for themselves, taking it away and selling it back to them.”
A border collie running an agility course is a being happier than which none can be conceived.
Happy 19th birthday to this kiddo!
Prayer before a fire (stealing lines from both Gandalf and Gordon White):
I am a servant of the secret fire,
The fire of creation.
All fires are the one fire,
And blessed be its flame.