Seasonal Reading

I can’t claim to have any real understanding of what is going on here but it is fascinating nonetheless. And visually/audially captivating!

Please, read this book. I have just finished listening to it, read by the author. It is important. It is difficult. It is true. It is a call to examine what we are willing to do, what we are willing to sit by and do nothing about. It is brutal. It is necessary. Just read

Please watch this. It will make you smile. And it will break your heart. https://aeon.co/videos/young-palestinians-find-fleeting-moments-of-freedom-at-a-west-bank-skate-park

An exceptional conversation between Helena de Groot and Catherine Barnett. Well worth a listen… https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/74636/poetryofftheshelf

This, this is a stunner of a book. Gorgeous! I chose to listen to it and I felt like I was listening to a book length poem. A verbal painting. An aural landscape. I felt transported. Orbital describes a 24 hour cycle in the lives of six astronauts in near earth orbit in a space

Hey y’all – the year is wrapping up and I find myself intrigued by people’s roundups of reading and such. This is the best one I’ve seen yet: https://shiraerlichman.substack.com/p/my-top-6-novels-of-2024 To boot, I have the Virginia Woolf novel on my shelf and am inspired to dig into it thanks to @shiraerlichman What are you reading?

Been a minute since I was on aeon.co — If you know me, you know I’m an anarchist (anarcho-syndicalist to be precise). This article is a warm and fuzzy explanation of modern day anarchism you may enjoy: https://aeon.co/essays/what-san-francisco-carpooling-tells-us-about-anarchism

Where to start? This book was such an unexpected pleasure. It was funny – hilarious even. It was riveting, eye opening, a surprisingly easy read. The impulse to read this book came from my desire to understand, really understand, what makes a person make the kind of decision that Navalny made – to return to