Randy and his family are about to be launched into the kind of medical drama we all fear and which can quickly drain all of one’s savings. If you have a few dollars to spare, let’s make their safety net a little stronger ❤️

Uh oh, I can’t find my keys #rapture

The view at the end of my daily ride/skate on the last day of summer

It’s raining!! Finally! ☔️🌂💧

Here is a lake with beautiful fall colors to brighten up your feed!! Happy first day of Fall!! 🍂 The Bluesky complements the fall colors perfectly! 🦋

BEWARE the ACA subsidy cliff! Here in VT, if I earn $84,500, my fam of 2 is eligible for $1,762 per mo ($21,148/yr) or 72% of the cost of a silver plan. But if I earn $84,700, I am eligible for ZERO subsidies and the silver plan premiums for my family would be $2,464, or 34% of my income.

What I’m wearing to the Rapture

Canceled your streaming services and need a book? Here are a few of the books that have recently transported me out of time and space: The Song of Achilles and Circe by Madeline Miller Nicked by MT Anderson Cinnamon & Gunpowder by Eli Brown Hild by Nicola Griffith Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

When I was 24 I was hit in a crosswalk by a car that ran a red light. I woke up as they were loading me into the ambulance. I’m thankful I was hit by a car and not an SUV.

Listening to a story on CBC about worms plaguing the wild rice crops of Saskatchewan and the description of ‘so many worms that you can hear them slithering’ is going to give me nightmares

What the hell is going on? This is a rhetorical question

If we ignore them will they just go away? She asks, hopefully

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

When I moved from the SF Bay Area to Burlington VT, my expenses mostly went down, except for health care and health insurance premiums. I haven’t understood how UVM can charge such astonishing prices but meanwhile plead poverty to regulators. Sounds like this “corporate shell game” is the reason.

Happy Monday! There is more to life than this. Go outside. Look at the sky. Eat a tomato sandwich. Call someone you haven’t talked to in a while.

Last night. 3am? There was an empty box on the floor of my room. I awoke to Inky, the black cat, sliding the box across the floor with his paws. Then Marmie, the orange cat, pounced on the box from my bed. And then I think they had a party, I’m not sure what was happening. Still so groggy.

“The only appropriate time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely you are both everywhere and nowhere, eternal and nonexistent.” @mcsweeneys.net

I want a movie adaptation of these three legends who flee a care home to return to their abandoned convent in the Alps

For a hopeful split-second I thought we might finally get gun control legislation.

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise 1. This is sand dot com Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes (this is one I did) thisissand.com

Accidentally got the worst sunburn I’ve had in years. Ouch.

Happy 90th birthday Arvo Pärt!

Stop looking at your phone, he says

Now is not a good time to upgrade any equipment for my work

What a delight this book was. I slurped it up. Thank you @mt-anderson.bsky.social!!

Oh thanks! Here’s a video of the whole performance of Piece 1 (ie Optimist) from Ep4 of Étoile

Congratulations to the choreographers and everyone who worked on Étoile for winning an Emmy for best choreography. Really well deserved

Google on every website: Are you sure you don’t want to log in so I can track everything you do? Me: I’m sure, thanks

I had so many plans

Department of Grift

Matt Carmichael is one of those people you wished lived nearby so you could invite him to every dinner party. He’s is a journalist who’s been writing about music, demographics and the future for more than 30yrs. I talked to him a while back and he is crowdfunding a BOOK….

Tomorrow is the start of ArtHop, possibly my fav weekend in Burlington VT. I love wandering the galleries and artists’ studios and buying their art. This year I volunteered as a runway model for the STRUT fashion show. Friday, at the former ArtsRiot 7:30pm, come see what local designers have made!

I’ve massively reduced my news consumption this year but I still listen to CBC radio while I’m making dinner. Today, I learned that Canada has a Laughing Championship www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Congrats to the team of “Steal This Story, Please!” and Amy Goodman on their well-deserved standing ovation this weekend at Telluride. I wish I could have been there! Original score by yours truly :) www.thewrap.com/amy-goodman-...

Saw a post I won’t reference saying art is something only folks born into money have time for. I am a data point of one but say that’s not true. Advice I give to early career artists: live as cheaply as possible, in a place with other creatives around. Be stingy so you can be free to fail.

Folks who buy their own insurance, what is your plan?

Time to settle in with a cup of tea and read the newspaper @theonion.com

I suspect whatever “tariff rebate check” math the Grifter in Chief comes up with will make ASCAP OnStage (which collects a percentage of my ticket sales from every venue and then, if I apply for it, gives me 16% of that money one year later) look fair.

I won't let nobody steal my joy neither

Squeezing out the last bits from summer but meanwhile I am blatantly posting this selfie to encourage you to buy tickets for my concerts in September 26/09 - The Stone Church VT 27/09- Somerville Theater MA 28/09 - Sellersville Theater PA 30/09 - Gramercy Theater NY THANK YOU WITH BELLS ON!

Lad and I are obsessed with these bonkers bags of bonbons that we buy at a gas station across the border. You never know what will be in a bag. Lemon tyrannosaurs and raspberry chicken feet? Clear blobs and red licorice tape? Unhinged candy for unhinged times. 5 out of 5 stars, no notes

My music was in two separate dance performances at the Kennedy Center last year. I have a feeling that won’t be happening again any time soon

In other news, my son survived a haircut today #IYKYK

Koyaanisqatsi

Oh, the joy of riding a bike around a city without being continually menaced by cars! We get the mobility we design for.

Summer is not over until I’ve lost two pairs of sunglasses and found one new pair of unknown origin

Yet again, for the umpteenth year, it would have been so cool if Apple had released an OS update with a right-pointing mouse arrow for lefties today.

Happy Lefthanders Day!

Summer Zoë has posted to her mailing list about the upcoming activities, or lack thereof, of Public Zoë, the so-called World Infamous Cellist and Composer