A treasure trove of links for you this week.
I’m preparing to launch Entwined next month (which is a lot more exciting than it sounds.) Right now that looks like scheduling podcasts, recording voice overs, and sending emails.
I thought I had nothing to show for my work (photographically speaking) until I remembered that I did manage to shoot some video for the crowdfunding campaign. There was a green Hot Wheel and collage clippings already on my desk so I just went with it.
I’ve also revived my dormant Sourdough Starter this week. I’ve been mentally composing a post called “Sourdough for Chaotic Neurodivergents” but I haven’t tracked down enough photos to fill it out. I’m sure I have more somewhere.
Reading 📖
beautiful rifts in time on motherhood and time travel by
Time Loop Masterclass by Joseph Mallozzi (responsible for one of the greatest time loop stories of all time Stargate SG-1’s Window of Opportunity).
I also finished up my Way of Kings reread and Reaper Man this week.
Considering Sir. Terry Pratchett is no longer with us I thought this quote was particularly meaningful.
…no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is har-vested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
Listening 🎧
Writing Excuses (Episode 19.07 NaNoWriMo Revisions)
Lots of great stuff in this episode, but this quote from DongWon Song is probably the greatest argument for traditional publishing,
In part, you wrote the book because you don’t have a simpler way of explaining whatever it is that you were trying to get to with writing the book. Right? That’s okay. That’s great, actually. That’s my job to figure out how to frame it up in a pithy few sentences…
Learning ✏️
Word of the Week. (Courtesy of my Scottish friend Shelley.)
dreich
(watch for pronounciation)
adjective
(Scotland, Northern Ireland) Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.
Digital Foraging 🍁
There are a lot of links this week! This is partly because half of them are from last week. I felt like the email was getting too long so I pushed them forward. Now I still have too many, but they are too good to cut.
This song by Lewis McLaughlin. I’ve been using it in a lot of my Instagram reels this month because it’s summer and I love the rhythm.
A real life hobbit dream home. Book filled and grass roofed.
Needle felting a dragon on a jean jacket. (I’ve already started pricing wool roving.)
My Retro TV. 📺 (It’s fun. Just try it!)
“They were young scrappy and hungry.” Men’s Gymnastics Team set to Hamilton
Kamala Harris celebrates having her mother’s laugh.
Speaking of which. I’ve bought two copies of Kamala Harris’ memoir so I can give one away. You can enter over on Instagram. Open to American residents who plan to vote.
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