February 18, 2020
Gleanings
- I’m not at all against social media. But one wishes for more poetic investigation, more hospitality being offered in a conversation. We want to talk things through, to get to another side, but acknowledge the mess of things, and to still find some kind of meaning, however impermanent, in flux it might be.
- Discovering that, if it’s the right one, a romance novel is the best bookish friend imaginable–always there when you need it and sure to cheer you up–is the happiest result of my now decade-long romance reading adventure.
- If this font was a person, it would be the sort of friend who fits in wherever they go and who you trust with your secrets and who will never fail to tell you if you’ve got something stuck in your teeth.
- What I wanted to say in this essay is that I laugh about death because death is a lens through which I’ve seen the world for the past year and this way I laugh every day.
- Where is my corner in the room? In the world? There are so many sharp corners, at every turn.
- Why is protesting such an uncomfortable enterprise? It may be because a protest is a perfect storm of social awkwardness: It’s where the tidal waves of conformity and nonconformism smash into each other.
- Loving my discussions this week with friends about Valentine memories from their own childhood…
- You can learn a lot from attempting to photograph a can of sardines.
- The healing superpowers of learning new things
- But even the sight of my neighbour’s sheets, socks and undies bellowing in a Toronto breeze warms my heart.
- Sewing the chapbooks in sunlight, and this evening we’ll read from the Odyssey, that great poem about craft, textiles, cunning. And love.
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Thank you for this wonderful list. Christy Anne Conlin doesn’t have a comments section on her blog but I particularly loved her post. It’s inspired me to tidy up my own space (as an aging mermaid).
I love her blog SO MUCH!!