“That’s how dance feels to me, a person who can’t.”
With courage showing up everywhere in this hour, there is also still the plain wrestling with self and thought and how we learn anything through the embodied lives we lead, and one way and another each step of this makes us who we are whenever we finally show up.
#WordsWorthWriting from @updates
https://press.invincible.ink/story-pile-just-be-free-by-big-freedia/
Even when I have no idea what @Talen_Lee is writing about, the way he writes stops me in my thinking to ask new questions.
This is one of the best things I’ve read on the perplexity that confronts us when we hold up our mortality to the universe.
Ok so this from @Talen_Lee via their @updates blog is gorgeous and a romp. It’s about a game, it’s about teenagers, it’s about how we think in action.
(I’m back on my #WordsWorthWriting collection, which is just me thinking about the human efforts of writing, what it is and why we cherish this work so often given away to us as a social gift)
I promise I’m not just going to spend this year talking about word puzzle games with no meaningful narrative or creative fiction. I promise. Hey, this is So Clover! It’s a critically acclaimed internationally successful game! It’s real good! Let’s talk about it! Here’s the really tight, fundamentals of So Clover. Each player gets given […]
“There is nothing cooler than kids that dig so deeply into something that their passion for the topic becomes palpable. Oddly that vision of today’s youth is too often buried because the checked-out teen is both a lazier and easier vision to prop up.”
This from @jimgroom is an absolute delight.
Sharing these #WordsWorthWriting by @kristiedegaris about place naming and belonging as it connects for me to @Ammienoot thinking about being Scottish.
What is it about the state of the world that sparks these reflections on land language?
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gaelic-the-language-of-the-land/
Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe churches that are no longer there, forests long felled, rivers that have dried up or changed course. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. It’s one of the reasons I’ve spent the last 554 days learning it.
“Do what you can reach” is just one piece of the good practical advice from @kissane here, on sensemaking in intentionally chaos-causing times.
It’s opened up thoughts on how things are outside the US where we can reach very little except friendship and, on the other hand, travel boycott. As I was already thinking seriously today about whether I will attend something if held in the US, this “do what you can reach” lands right on that thought.
“The process of writing is a matter of making a mark, staking a small claim on the world, seeing how the world looks from the vantage of that claim.”
This is so important, to see writing as process that makes a place (holds a space) for looking out further—not just as what got written.
Thanks @bonstewart for these #WordsWorthWriting I read today.
https://bonstewart.com/belonging/posts/beyond-here-there-be-dragons/
I haven’t been able to write since US election day. I live in Canada…admittedly, a four-minute drive from the tunnel to Detroit, but still. I am writing about a university in Scotland. These are all distinct nation-state compartments, each with its own colour on the map. But still. Academic confession: I feel shame about my […]
This morning I started my post-university life reading this short post from @kfitz.
Holding space towards a better moment is the detail that’s really struck me. Holding that space is the work of crafting and then conserving readiness, like throwing a pot. It’s Rebecca Solnit’s wise thought that hope is not a door “but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.
Pulling together the threads of this moment in poli-tech as the disgruntled broligarchy fume about woke (still, again, as if), a stellar piece of critical thinking from Audrey Watters.
I regret to inform you that Paul Graham, investor and founder of the startup training program Y Combinator, has published a new essay: "The Origins of Wokeness." You can tell the political bent of his screed by the invocation of "woke," no doubt. But at this stage, I'm not sure
This is #WordsWorthWriting for me this morning: a brief story of place that nested right in to a thought I’m having since I just read @kissane’s big thread on niche cultures vs big corp tech cultures.
Erin sparked a thought for me about anti-suburbanism. This lovely new blog reflects on moving unthinkingly through non places without noticing that they also have living and tacitly resistant features, and they still carry the marks and memories of what was there before, especially in creeks.
Here it is again, from @monicarettig.
https://falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/riparian-riffs-part-i/
Kate Bowles