“Sister…all the trees of the world are like brothers and sisters.” -Han Kang in THE VEGETARIAN

This week, I've gotten a couple of AI generated assignments that may have broken me. It really hurt to "read" them. Not even anger. Just a bleak sense of solitude. Standing alone on the vast, treeless plain. The wind makes a noise, but it is not human speech.

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk. Today is his day.

In Patricia Smith’s book BLOOD DAZZLER there are several poems that trace the story of a dog left chained in the front yard by his owner ahead of Hurricane Katrina. And the poems are from the dog’s perspective. Those poems haunt me to this day.

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Hoping everyone makes it through Milton except the monsters who purposely leave their pets behind like this. I don't care about people like them.

Marina Tsvetaeva. Today is her day.

I would argue that this is exactly the way that we should be thinking about this and at the same time we should be thinking about how to rebuild the physical systems that digitization and globalization destroyed. The way through is by reinvesting and rebuilding what social infrastructure we once had

Much better to hang out on the site full of Nazis

More Gen Z women than Gen Z men have left the church. That’s big news! Here’s why I think it’s also the wave of the future: www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/the-remark...

The Remarkable Religious Disaffiliation of Young American Women and What it Means for the Future

Underneath all the buzz about the (allegedly) extremely corrupt and definitely just plain weird NYC mayor Eric Adams, the devastation of hurricane Helene, Israel’s operations in Lebanon, and the other...

Willem de Kooning, Asheville, 1948. The title of the painting references de Kooning's time teaching at Black Mountain College, the influential mid-20th-century experimental arts school located near the town of Asheville, North Carolina www.phillipscollection.org/collection/a...

The thing about "just move away from areas where natural disasters are likely" this time around is I feel like "the mountains flooded" isn't really registering with people.