Better Late

I kept chickening out about committing to a single composition to have up for the rest of the year. Something about the imagery I was choosing scared me.

Welcome, baby.

Historically, there’s been an element of exhaustion or overstimulation in the work I make due to it being tied in so many respects to social media. The energy of being on Twitter or Instagram bleeds into everything from the pace of production to the pressure to reach more people. Even if I’m enjoying making the art, there’s this extra stuff that I don’t quite know what to do with.

But this book felt different.

Ramble #27.2

A Ramble about what to do when there is nothing to be done.

Where to Put the Work

It’s been three weeks since Tansy was killed. I Rambled about it a little, but I haven’t really written about it. I didn’t write much of anything for a while there. I logged out of every online account I could think of the day it happened and told myself I would take a week at … Continue reading Where to Put the Work

Make Haste Slowly

In a chapter of Always Coming Home titled “Long Names of Houses,” Le Guin writes: “It is hard for us to conceive, harder to approve, of a serious adult person not in a hurry. Not being in a hurry is for infants, people over eighty, bums, and the Third World. Hurry is the essence of … Continue reading Make Haste Slowly

Beyond Urgency

Some thoughts on slow motion activism and Critical Resistance PDX’s #WriteThemAll campaign.