2023 in Reading – Lucy Bellwood
Someone said they had a hunch I went through books "like food," which is true. "A book a month?" someone suggested. I looked shifty. "A book a week?!" I had to pull up this list to check.| Lucy Bellwood
Instantly delighted by the premise and format of Genderswap.fm, a classy little database made by Eva Decker that catalogues covers and original tracks sung by artists of different genders. (Particularly love getting to filter by tags like “more danceable” or “less acoustic”.)| Lucy Bellwood
A number of fantastic ducks lined up in the month of June and I want to talk about all of them, but there isn’t time to do it in one giant post. One duck, however, took the form of appearing at the 14th International Melville Society Conference to speak about my time aboard the Charles W. Morgan eleven years ago. (You can read the comic about that trip here.)| Lucy Bellwood
Hey I loved this. It also reminded me to go check up on the phone line and see if there were any messages that needed witnessing. I keep them close to the chest because that’s part of the project, but I will say that there were and they moved me to tears. Maybe that’s what it’s all about.| Lucy Bellwood
“I feel the answer to your question will always exist outside the world as it presents itself, beyond the matters of the day, distinct from the temporal. It will be found within the mysterious, the unsettled, and the sacred, that faraway and intangible place where truth and music and your father reside.” — The Red … Continue reading Elsewhere| Lucy Bellwood
Cat’s been out of the bag for a while: I’d rather be operating a switchboard than a megaphone these days. | Lucy Bellwood
While working on this project I’ve gotten an in-person tour of Ocean Rainforest’s pilot farm here in Southern California and read more than I can say about different farming methods and kelp life cycle stages in order to craft a big informational poster about the history of humans and kelp. Building on these experiences, plus some work I’ve done in the past for the Schmidt Ocean Institute and Mystic Seaport, I’ll be hosting an hour-long presentation on how cartoonists can help transla...| Lucy Bellwood
Turns out I'm always trying to illuminate the thing that feels big but unspoken at any given moment in my life.| Lucy Bellwood
"By powerful I mean achieving your goals, realizing your hopes, and that's most often done incrementally, imperfectly, and by working with people who don't agree with you about everything."| Lucy Bellwood
Every day when I sign out of our company slack, I post a moon emoji to signal ‘goodnight’. I’m careful to choose the actual correct moon emoji for the time: 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘, as is appropriate to the day. I don’t know why, except I like the idea of incepting my coworkers with some kind of moon-sense. But for my site, I wanted something more specific to my spot in the world – and the moon is a global phenomenon.| Lucy Bellwood
Are these really the messages I cast aside so I can pounce on contracts from shipping companies?| Lucy Bellwood
Someone said they had a hunch I went through books "like food," which is true. "A book a month?" someone suggested. I looked shifty. "A book a week?!" I had to pull up this list to check.| Lucy Bellwood
