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...

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

still true

*not reading all the Substacks*

on the brink of spiraling down into the bad place so I guess it’s time to go to sleep and start over in the morning

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

visited my friend today

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talked to a client about solo writing retreats today and it made both of us happy my most basic definition of a retreat is ignoring everything and everyone for a set period of time in a specific place(s) retreats are fun and it’s a great time to take breaks from everything and everyone

you know you’re from Alabama if you’re from the same town and they don’t follow you back so you assume they voted for Trump and you’re probably right

this

in my baba ganoush era and lucky for me, the best bg in the city is right down the street at pita stop express I’m always disappointed when I order it elsewhere pita stop express, y’all

hyperlocal helps hang out with (or wave to?) a neighbor take a walk in your neighborhood sit on a bench in a nearby park eat something from your garden or a nearby farm check out a book from the closest library read something by a local journalist or poet or novelist

shoutout to eavesdropping at restaurants and other public places where people say mild to moderate private things louder than necessary it gives me so much joy

came across a cool + interesting layer to add to one of the chapters of my Spiritual Direction for Writers book today this final round of revisions is definitely the most enjoyable round of revisions revision mode is the best mode✨

Carmen is so depressed.

truth

excuse me while I go find Overcompensating skeet

who else is obsessed with the show Overcompensating

you should never be arrogant and correct-y about other people hogging the washer and dryer when you want to do some laundry because you will also hog the washer and dryer when others want to do laundry it’s all grace

laughter helps and new mornings—they help finding ways to support people who are more directly in harm’s way helps (even if it’s small donations) reading fiction helps too—escaping this life + entering another story provides legit relief may we inhabit this world in healthy ways💚

We asked over 100 stars and filmmakers in Hollywood and around the world to vote for their 10 favorite movies released since Jan. 1, 2000.

thought we weren’t going to be able to go to Sidewalk Film Festival this year because $$ but we got a big refund for something that covered our tickets AND we’re using Marriott points to stay at a hotel downtown for the main festival weekend yay @sidewalkfilm.bsky.social

I Think I Need to Cry Again: A Memoir of 2025

during my walk just now I realized a small parking lot at the church one street over was in full shade so I walked in parking lot circles for like 20 minutes and that’s one good thing from today — I found some shade when the heat index was 101

Today marks the birthday of the great (prophetic?) American writer Octavia Butler!

in the past three days, three moms have told me they think summers are hard parenting in the summer has always been super hard for me too I have one(1) 20yo child living at home this summer and it’s still hard it’s okay to be honest about how some things suck summer sure can suck

RT if you ever bought Vintage Contemporary paperbacks just because they looked so cool

laughter helps and new mornings—they help finding ways to support people who are more directly in harm’s way helps (even if it’s small donations) reading fiction helps too—escaping this life + entering another story provides legit relief may we inhabit this world in healthy ways💚

I Think I Need to Cry Again: A Memoir of 2025

don’t forget to drink water + take deep breaths + ice your vagus nerve naps help too

“in the middle of me. Me so alive in my little space reading.”