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The complement to mindful living is mindful reading.  I want to learn from what I read. I want to see what others have seen. I want to consciously read what is not standard culture fare. Something more offbeat or deep. I want to learn storytelling and cultural terraforming.  I leaned more into sci-fi this year. […]

On New Year’s Eve, the Times Square Ball drops for only 60 seconds over a measly 139 feet. What if we extrapolated from that and covered the entire year? Enter the Infinite Ball Drop. Tomorrow is an another day a new year. They warned me of this in primary school music class; in Joni Mitchell’s […]

Still a couple days left to read but I’m adding to best of list now, The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrated by April White (Brick Books, 2025) which gave so many aha moments on chronic illness and concussion, and consumer culture, and pure amazement at her rendering poems from trash container text. and from […]

A funny thing for you to come here for me to send you away again, but some tome ago blogger stopped working for me so I migrated those sites to my own dang server. And my old cat blog got deleted by WordPress as dormant on their server. I got the files restored. The only […]