I'm taking a break, friends! Subscriptions paused until January

I'll be reveling in the deep reflection of this season; of solsticetime, long nights, low skies, torrential rain, and the replenishing dark

Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash

Hello everyone, I hope you’re doing well and that your days are bringing you warmth, rejuvenation, community, and more!

I’ve paused paid subscriptions for now. My copy writing and editing work has picked up considerably as it tends to do in the fall and winter; and what’s even more exciting is that I’m preparing to teach an art appreciation course this coming winter quarter at South Seattle College.

I’m also taking this opportunity to fall back and regroup as I reconsider my overall thesis, which I’ve been holding close to my chest as I build up to it. I sort of realized it might be more interesting to work backwards, expose my conclusions, then go into everything leading up to it. Is that obvious? Yes, but I’m astonishingly slow sometimes. Is this cryptic as fuck? It absolutely is, lol. I guess what I’m learning is I still have a lot of extra material to shed so I can get further into the material I care most about. My best feature is also my worst, sometimes—I see a lot of patterns and connections across genres, topics, and issues; things stack up and even I get lost in it. So looking ahead at this extended length of quiet time, I don’t want to charge you for the remaining duration, however long it will be.

Keep fighting for a just world, towards liberation for us all. Hold fast in solidarity, reciprocity, kindness, and compassion. We’re working towards the same ends and goals, so let’s trust each other across our differences and embrace our multivalent ways of accomplishing them. Take down systems, not each other. Seek and create art and beauty and joy, no matter how small. Whatever it is that you are doing, everything you can do, with your strengths and skills, matters. Here’s to our collective fruitful days.

In the meantime, if you’d like to revisit some of my previous materials, here are a few essays I’m particularly proud of!