Double Dipping

Recurrent vocabulary.

“I draw the path to walk”

There is art we make because we are dedicated to a craft and art we make because it’s an expression of our innate human desire to play.

I Strongly Recommend the Library

A zine made with excitement and haste.

2023 in Reading

Someone said they had a hunch I went through books “like food,” which is true. “A book a month?” someone suggested. I looked shifty. “A book a week?!”

I had to pull up this list to check.

Spells

“The earth’s deepest and most primal incantation.”

Four Reading Rhymes

“You’re a phantom in both worlds and a god of sorts in the world that is not exactly the one the author wrote but some hybrid of her imagination and yours.”

The Island

These things happen all the time, so what undergirds the idea that they’re aberrant?

In the Dark

“You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology.”

A Blaze of Kindness

“We learn by imitation: it’s easy to say these things, but to see them in action, in much harder circumstances than we will ever face, is a far greater help. And to see them exemplified by real, flawed, complicated people like us is better still; they are not fairly-tale ideals, they are achievable. Real people achieved them.”

“If you don’t believe in god, say ocean.”

“Part of the reality of searching for queer respites is that they are fleeting, ever-evolving, a question without a resolved answer.”