“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.” -Rebecca Solnit (I saw this on another account and love it because it's very much in line with All of Life Is the Writing Life.)

When I log on Threads there's rage bait waiting for me. (I lost it a few days ago when some guy from San Francisco was talking trash about Alabama. Only people who live in Alabama get to talk trash about Alabama) When I log on here I see a lot of art. Lesson learned.

Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil.

Morning. Pied Wagtail from Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Arthur G Butler, illustr. H. Gronvold, 1908.

who wants to help make a list of all the things we stopped talking about after he started this war?

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

after I complete a significant task on my to do list that I’ve been needing to get to for a few weeks, I feel like I deserve to take the rest of the day off that’s how that works, right?

stuck at a car shop getting new tires that I should’ve bought a few months ago and since I’ve been here I’ve done about six email-ish things from my to-do list because I’m stuck at a car shop getting new tires might start coming by for an admin co-working session once a week because who knew

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

This is how you live a life

Fantastic news: the work of Allan Rohan Crite, featured in two shows in Boston this past fall, will now be on view at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum through the end of July. I'm a huge fan of Crite's work & would recommend a visit if you're in the area zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...

on the 10th day of this illness (which is now a sinus infection and I have antibiotics now so I’ll be fine) I present the first (glorious!) sentence of Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

this world needs more tears of joy and delight and goodness cheers to all the fellow tender hearted olds

The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956

what’s keeping you from spiraling down into the depths of despair?

“I often wonder why we don’t put the Beatitudes in classrooms. It’s always the Ten Commandments. What about “blessed are the poor,” “blessed are those who mourn,” “blessed are the meek,” “blessed are the peacemakers”? Why is there never a push for the Beatitudes? It’s a very strange thing to me.”

the spiritual practice of preparing for a book launch by noticing your ego and returning to your soul again and again

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I used to think most people are trying hard to do the best they can but now I think it’s more like 30% are trying hard to do the best they can honestly, my percentage is probably lower but I don’t want to appear too cynical or maybe hope is winning happy Tuesday!

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I meet with writers all the time who are navigating publishing woes + angst while bringing a new book into the world and now it's my turn to walk this path again that can completely undo your soul I need to go read my Spiritual Direction for Writers book to help me survive its publication😐

I left this app when I was trying to finish writing a book and then I finished writing it and then I did the revisions and whatnot and I forgot to come back but this one really is so much better than the other ones (and now we’re checking page proofs and I will stay this time)

more Bad Bunny

starting here this morning, then maybe NYT (for book section mainly), then heading to church at St. Stephen’s Episcopal then maybe going back to the Birmingham Museum of Art or a nap or both

I went to the Birmingham Museum of Art on Friday to see the new exhibition, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns from 1850-1950, so I could not worry about all of this for an hour or so and it worked a few of my favorites from Friday: Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper, Jules Breton, 1869-ish

I managed to avoid the news and social media for six hours after waking up this morning so I win.

confirmed this was a dream and discussed it with my spiritual director and it’s a whole thing

yes

today’s session at Wild Goose Festival was fantastic Saturday’s 4pm conversation on art as a spiritual practice will explore the spiraling nature of creativity and the spiritual life through the framework of belonging > becoming > beholding > bestowing join us! (and I’ll have good snacks!)

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I failed to take notes on something and now I can't remember where I saw/heard/read about it what I think I saw/heard/read was a story of a writer(?) or (artist(?) as a teenager(?) being dropped off at the Rothko Chapel in the morning and picked up in the afternoon help? did I dream it?

one of my son’s best friends is a super talented young producer/DJ and he dropped this Drake remix yesterday and it’s fantastic edm fan or not, it will make you want to dance Matai (aka MODIM) is one of my favorite people—he’s a great guy on.soundcloud.com/B54Ih2IGjTDg...

heads up if you’re a fan of visual art and live in or near Athens, Georgia

they obviously didn’t read the description because this was their takeaway after reading The Great Belonging… “Book by mentally ill religious fanatic” “I don't want to hear about her musing for her mental illness or her religious beliefs. I found the book useless and threw it away.”

I know others have said this but it’s wild how much this country hates women

big news day, huh

some of y’all have probably already read this but I didn’t see it until this morning (late to the party because I was reading and writing) yes and amen to @meghanor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

revise revise revise (also I get a lot more research, writing, and revision done when I’m not here or there or everywhere but where I am while I’m doing the thing)

💚 an excerpt from All of This & More’s episode 4 guest Tanya Davis 1️⃣6️⃣ we have 16 episodes so far 🐌 but I’m slow sharing them because I’m slow with a lot of things right now 🌎 because this world is a lot learn more at www.allofthisandmore.com

“People who leave parties without saying goodbye save up to two days per year.”

Al Hansen, Hey, 1968

highly recommend adding a rolling hospital table thing to your bedroom setup because it’s convenient AND it provides another spot for piles of books (also currently watching a lecture by Alexander Nemerov)

watching art documentaries to take breaks from the devastation and horrors happening all around us so I’m open to all art documentary recommendations 1000 or so recs might be enough

I’m finding some hope right now in music, a global resource for communication, inspiration and plain old happiness. I don’t like the phrase “universal language” bc it’s inaccurate but the urge to make and enjoy music is global and we can all learn from sharing it. Support the music makers.

Adrienne Rich, on “the idea of a lifelong commitment of self to art”—out of the Foreword to Clayton Eshleman’s Companion Spider: Essays (Wesleyan UP, 2001). To remember: we are all “novices.”

when you check your spam slash junk because maybe the pitch acceptance email is over there lol (the pitch acceptance is not over there)

thank god for "The End of Poetry" by Ada Limón www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...