The sea and the soul – gorgeous read on the elemental blues of being by poet, painter, and philosopher Etel Adnan https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/01/etel-adnan-sea/

I'm starting to hope that the perception of Mastodon being difficult to master will keep some people away, while enticing good people at the same time. I love the new neighbourhood. Right now it's like fin-de-siecle Montmartre or 1950s Greenwich Village: Humanities academics, poets, artists, scientists, screenwriters, digital outcasts, satirists, musicians.