Dispatches from several days in on a new relationship with the news, added over the course of several evenings:| small cypress
It's been a rough few weeks, but the last few days have felt extremely thick. I've been reading, mindlessly scrolling, and deep into comments sections I have no business being in (under the guise of "taking the cultural pulse.")| small cypress
I don't need to go into the specific moment in our news cycle more than just to say that it rings of the same hopelessness I see in some kids' eyes as a teacher. Why read a novel or draw anything in a generation screwed by your grandparents, with even middle-upper-class kids looking at a lowering quality of life by each generation.| small cypress
I am losing patience with people who don't utilize the agency they have. I am figuring out how to write again, and I wrote a long, annoyed screed about so...| small cypress
I'm on the other side of this trip down the spiral. The world has been so heavy. Despite this, the weather cooled into absolutely perfect windows-open, dog-w...| small cypress
A colleague from my last job and city visited me in Baltimore last week and we met at Glenstone Museum, a privately-owned contemporary art museum in Potomac.| small cypress
hard things: (CW: death/body)| small cypress
Onwards! Day 5 for me, and this one is short. Just some interesting things that I stumbled upon that may help you feel a lil spark!| small cypress
Day 3!| small cypress
I went to a show I didn't think I would like and it helped with the kind of existential despair that has been thick everywhere for months. A friend said a lo...| small cypress
I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others blog...| small cypress