Lovely and powerful story https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/petaluma-native-american-artifacts-tribes/?utm_source=article_gift&utm_medium=copy-link&ac=YXJ0aWNsZS1zaGFyZQ==&ah=gz1A5JWlBv8y
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we present this first-person story about how a retired therapist from Petaluma began the process of “homing” baskets, blankets and other items with the people whose ancestors created them.
Happy Discardia!
Gift yourself some stress reduction. What can you do in the next week to reduce stressors and increase your restorative calm over the next two months?
I'm making time to catch up on home tidying, cleaning, and laundry so that my place is relaxing.
I've also made my craft space and reading chair ready for nice, flow-state time away from news and social media.
Gen Xers*, start going through the family memorabilia now. It will take so much longer than you could ever imagine.
And I invented Discardia; I'm great at the decisions of what to let go of! But even if you're quick and don't burn out fast, the prosperous late 20th century created many many artifacts.
*Mostly middle-class Gen-Xers who will want to keep or pass along some stuff and whose families have never suffered some disastrous loss of belongings.
#Sewing and #Discardia are in my mix as I practice Perpetual Upgrade and turn some inherited fabric, old stuff from my own stash, and old flannel sheets into a bedroom robe inspired by Japanese fishermans' jackets.
Because my bedroom is on the north side of the house, it tends to damp and bathrobes should never hang in there wet. So I need both a post bath robe that lives in the bedroom (currently in the washer rinsing out the turmeric from its yellowification) and a bedroom robe.
In the end, I'm celebrating #Discardia by trading away this game which doesn't live up to my hopes given a co-designer I like (Elizabeth Hargrave), an unusual theme, and an interesting dice mechanic.
I'm noting that I need to view Kickstarter videos with a more critical eye, thinking about the sustainability and reusability of the game components, and weighing my pledge in the context of what I can see of the games replayability.
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I have taught myself the patience for slow, solo projects which involve gradual improvement to something. It's the 'Perpetual Upgrade' aspect of #Discardia.
The one on my mind this morning is playlist / #music collection building. For years I've been using "radio" features in streaming services to find songs I love and which don't lead my mood down paths that detract from the life I want to live. Then I get that music into my own music library where I can keep it as long as I want.
If you or your parents live in a community with a locally-run, locally-benefitting charity that accepts physical donations (clothes, furniture, etc.) and sells locally at affordable prices and/or provides for those in need, now is the time to start donating everything you don't need anymore.
Stuff does your neighbors no good if you leave it in your closet for years until you (or your heirs) finally pass it on.
Climate crises are getting worse. Share your resources now. #Discardia #MutualAid
I'm celebrating Discardia today by adding photos of relatives (many of them distant and/or dead) to Ancestry.com profiles.
This is the step before mailing the originals off to whatever lovely person for that chunk of the family is willing to take them.
Genealogy is a lovely rabbithole, but not as much fun as game design and worldbuilding, so I'm responsibly divesting from the hobby.
New Discardia post!
Give your social media the ladder check
https://discardia.com/2023/01/25/give-your-social-media-the-ladder-check/
"There are positive aspects to social media, definitely, but it can also suck away a lot of your time, motivation, and positivity. So how do you balance it?
First of all, you do balance it. You think about how it impacts your day; what the impact of different services have on you; how you feel depending on what you’re encountering in your timelines..."
Dinah 🕊🇺🇦
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