august 21 etc
I didn't mean to go so deep yesterday but when I sat down to write, that's what came out. After posting I felt lighter, like I had vomited out something that was making me sick.
Today I have a slightly different perspective.
I have an extensive backlog of thoughts that I couldn't expel for decades. Quitting drinking in 2020 helped me get reacquainted with parts of myself I hadn't seen in a while. Those parts were actually pretty close to the surface but obscured by alcohol, illness, and sadness, and the bad choices that precede and follow alcohol, illness, and sadness. Over the past few years those thoughts and parts have risen all the way up to the surface where they can be more easily seen.
I still feel lighter but not like I tossed my cookies. I feel lighter because as I know myself far better than I used to, writing all that stuff felt more like sharing than unburdening. Make of that what you will.
On y va!
🖼️✍🏽 Miss the 90s? I get it. Miss zines? So do I. Wanna make zines like it's the 90s again? Electric Zine Maker has you covered. (unicornycopia.com)
🎮🎮 Want to play indie video games but don't have any money to buy them? Do like I do and sell your autograph at the car show periodically browse the free section over at itch.io.
👩🍼💰 I want you to read this NYT story about how momfluencers are making money by catering to families outfitting their kids' dorm rooms so I'm using one of my gift links. (NYT)
🗑️♻️ Related: this piece is about how "colleges and universities were left with a mountain of waste that had been discarded by students in the resident halls." (Waste360)
📰📖 Last but not least, it has come to my attention that some folks don't know what RSS is, so when I write things like "subscribe to my blog via rss feed" on the home page of this website, I'm not being clear enough.
From Wikipedia:
RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitors sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.
If you are so inclined, you can use something like Feedly and curate your own feed of things and sites and whatnot. Algorithmic curation like what we experience on corporate social media sites became the standard largely because it was simpler and more convenient —— and also because no one back then realized that social media was going to define reality for billions of people and offer brands and bad actors an opportunity to hijack those realities.
RSS required people to actively curate their feeds via separate software (like Feedly), and still does. TL;DR you can curate your own feed or you can let an algorithm do it for you. If you want to do it yourself it takes a bit more time and effort but the results are worth it in my opinion.
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch
🌳 grass
🌷 now
Be good to yourself.
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