A Korean acapella group singing the soundtrack to Zelda is a niche that I proudly stan. Mood has been set. 🎵
It rained during the night
Enough to make the ground damp
and the trees hopeful.
Enough to freshen the air,
cooling and cleaning
Clouds block the sun
a respite from the heat
Windows open, deep breaths.
Let us begin.
Turn your ‘what if?’ list into a ‘to do’ list.
Wendy Suzuki, via NPR Life Kit.
Wavelengths from the source
dissipate as they travel.
Yet as I travel
towards you, my wavelengths
strengthen, my sources
disappear, and my destination
moves along with the
Wavelengths
of you.
Need a little boost, this morning. Looking at you Pete Bjorn and John’s “It Don’t Move Me”. 🎵
Some mornings you make the coffee, others the coffee makes you. ☕️
I’m not sure why this song was in my head this morning. I haven’t heard it in years. Settle in, today’s mood setter is 6 minutes 44 seconds long. “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” by Elton John. 🎵
The bandage provides cover
to heal, protecting the wound
shielding it from view.
The visible indication
to others
saying "I am wounded
and I need time to recover"
An important indicator
yet a bandage is often
something we try to hide.
Started watching Seaquest DSV (1993). 📺
A rewatch for my wife, first-time watch for myself. We're up to s1 e7, and while the series isn't great, I can see so much potential in what the show-runners were trying to accomplish.
Late Summer dry air
with smells that call back to memories
of going to school.
Walking to the bus stop
To be ridiculed
for your eyes
for your otherness
Are these eyes really so different?
Am I the only one to see
the ignorance
the hate
Smells that call back memories
and now knowing that I have
moved forward.
Back to work. Let's get it! The Halluci Nation "It's Over (feat. Chippewa Travellers)"
🎵
This week, I read two poems that have stuck with me, Sarah Gillman’s “And yet still grow” and Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Plastic: A Personal History”.
Apt for something I heard today. "Nobody Dies" by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down is our mood setter. 🎵
These feet
cracked and weary
not properly cared for
yet, have cared for
Their plight measured in distance
and years
With flex and strength
with will and persistence
these feet,
cracked and weary,
not properly cared for
yet, have cared for
continue their steps.
Sunday’s album mood setter, The Coathanger’s “Nosebleed Weekend”. 🎵
It's rare that I listen to an album where I love every track. Playing this loud, through headphones or though my system's speakers, makes me happy. Though "I Don't Think So" is my favorite track, "Watch Your Back", "Down Down", and "Had Enough" come close to claiming favorite on any given day.
Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.
This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn’t “hi,” isn’t necessarily “low” in any meaningful sense.
I so love Ursula K. Le Guin’s wisdom, especially in her rants.
Watched Silverado (1985). 🎥
There’s nothing like a great movie to put you in a great mood.
Saturday morning calls for Sylvan Esso’s “Coffee”. 🎵
Today’s mood courtesy of Radio Capital’s “La Vida Boheme”. 🎵
Holding each other
talking about the past
and the future
The present and the state we hold
We know now that
we did not know then
And we know now that
we will know.
That today requires our full
affection,
That we must trust what is
to be.
From Anne Helen Peterson’s “The Final Frontier of the Text Inbox”
West Elm will be emailing you once a day about the last day of its Summer Clearance until you die. Even after you die, maybe even after West Elm dies, the emails will still hit your inbox, like boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
and
The inbox has stopped being a place of intimacy or a place of enjoyment. It requires attentiveness in a way that breeds resentment. It’s open all the time on my desktop and I hate it, as most people hate it.
and, ominously,
For brands, the text inbox functions as a sort of newly-revealed layer of intimacy to colonize.
Today’s mood setter is “Oh!”, by The Linda Lindas. 🎵
Clouds
Blocking light, blocking thought
An occasional bird weaves
in and out of vision.
Earth
Scars of disaster and of man
An occasional tree grows
despite our best efforts.
Underground
So dark and yet comfortingly warm
An occasional Earth emerges.
To cover and renew.
Watched episodes 1-3 of Only Murders In the Building and just watching the chemistry between the cast makes me happy to watch this. Funny, and looks like the story is going to be really good. 📺
Finished Reading Incredible Doom Vol. 1. 📚
I took @sod’s recommendation and am very happy I did so. There’s so much to love in each drawn frame and the story is stellar. I’m anxiously waiting for the next volume.