An extraordinary ballet of life and death.

Looking into Earthships and “biotecture”, I came across this article on touring and sleeping in one in Taos. newmexicotravelguy.com/taos-earthsh...

Honestly, the pieces are coming together for a series of horrible events - the AI crash combined with a government shutdown and millions of poor and starving people encountering a racist invading federal force. I think we are but a hair’s breadth away from a vicious civil war.

The reason I started Substack.

I’m still waiting for this to happen…

“Tech is a speculative industry, money is made not on the product working, being any good or, in many cases, even making it to market. The money is made by making us believe.”

“My friends grew up dreaming of Farrah Fawcett – I dreamt of the Brontë sisters and Mary Shelley.” - Guillermo del Toro

nothing left of the war except forest

So much has happened, a constant flux and pivoting with no solo time to muse and think. A lot of life and work and people stuff and very little creative stuff. And now here we are deep into October.

Written by Haley Harrison. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.

In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I shared the morning of my fortieth birthday. They are now a book of cards:

Handcrafted Yomitan pottery, just right for a cappuccino or a small bouquet

Summer people

Beautiful, soul-stirring things are more precious than ever. Flowers on the table and a perennial friendship, handwritten notes and light through leaves. A well tended garden. Innocent laughter of children playing outside. Getting lost in an ancient town. And always the ocean.

the size of the world decreasing rubbing my palms to shed stiff new jeans a garter snake floating over grass a line slipping between lines fenced in fenced out round and round #poetry #micropoetry

Maybe I’ll explore putting stories on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/post/p/f...

Over five years on, this little beauty is still being borrowed in libraries, for which authors get paid (which is how I know!). You can also get a fresh copy from @saltpublishing.com here www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

Frida Kahlo synchronicities

Attended an astounding performance by jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano Co. This piece: Hutcheonite. Hearing it played solo on a handcrafted Yamaha grand a few feet away from me was mind blowing. youtu.be/wJNPOw0q5TU?...

Fucking Trump and his clan of losers. So mortified for Zelensky.

Weekend goals: The Brutalist and The Substance

… choose 20 paintings/prints that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting per day for 20 days , in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings/prints. #blueskyart #art #painting … Day 10 Nathaniel Russell

choppy sea I am the waves and the boat #senryu

Went to a wedding at the SF Presidio yesterday and as the evening came to a close, took this eerie pic of the cemetery.

There’s no way to convey the splendor of London in a few words or images. I’m still reeling from the pure visual excitement and energy. And I kept getting deja vu the whole week. Three things that made me immediately love this city: beautiful architecture, mastery of lighting, multicultural feast.

Mad love for London.

Glimmers of spring

Many Japanese Americans are recoiling from Trump's immigration crackdown. “This brings back all kinds of memories, even tears,” said one 91-year-old Berkeley resident. “You don’t think I’d remember much, but it’s amazing how much I do.” www.kqed.org/news/1202191... via @kqednews.bsky.social

"...Explore how they could change one simple thing and make themselves more astute observers, curious explorers, creative thinkers, deliberate investigators, and better naturalists? A key tool: keeping a notebook to record discoveries and questions and to help plan and document investigations."

This is still the greatest email ever.

Stormy outside, but peaceful inside.

One with the universe / creating the universe

I have variations on a recurring grief dream about traveling somewhere by the ocean and feeling sudden, deep remorse in realizing I’d been in a self-absorbed daze or semi-conscious state and had forgotten to love the ocean enough. It’s too late, I’m leaving and never felt one with the sea.

Haunted by a horrific nightmare of my dead father a few nights ago. Daily synchronicities of dream elements.

🧡 this! One of the many kind creations from @staykinduniverse.swifties.social

working on my stress/ dream balance

“how do we understand the experience of dramatic change in Okinawa under the presence of the American military bases?”

Rain at last

There will always be the sea

Thing is, writing a book is always an act of faith. It takes so long, you never know what the world will look like by the time it gets out there. All you can do is write with as much truth as you can muster and hope it stands up to whatever is going on when it arrives.

Uplifting and nostalgic…Castro in the 90s was a wonderland and though I’m a straight female it was home to me.

AI killed my imposter syndrome. i now fully believe i’m objectively better and smarter than all the people who need AI to do anything.

Haiya~ Iyasasa 🍉🍠🍍🐍🐖 Ryuukyuu Power! For all of my fellow peoples of the Ryukyuan diaspora 🖤

Soogwachi last year in Uchinā ft Itoman fishing boat flags, Kei trucks, and cats