Ya’ll, things have not at all been themselves since last I wrote which is a consequence of [so many things and] the current administration doing exactly what they said they would do and my having to live through the world coming to terms with the turbulent soup of predictions of our worst nightmares coming true.Continue reading “A Positive Sense of a New Political Order OR Gifts from the Future”
Category Archives: Media Break
Decoupling Pleasure from Consumerism OR happily buying less stuff
On Saturdays [especially when it is not gardening season] I sleep in and read long-form journalism. This Saturday it was the Atlantic. Among the political stuff [which I am giving myself permission to skim or skip right now] I encountered this article from the Atlantic on the new Amazon Haul which I found perversely fascinating. Continue reading “Decoupling Pleasure from Consumerism OR happily buying less stuff”
Media Break: Sustainable Futurism?
Lately, I’ve been having this problem where I wake up every morning at 5:30am. My weekday alarm is set to go off at 6:15 and I have no weekend alarm but my circadian rhythms care not. For 2023 one of my goals for myself is not immediately jump on social media as soon as IContinue reading “Media Break: Sustainable Futurism?”
The Oracle of Z 