I am devastated by the death of Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, an incredibly generous scholar who impacted my research process for years. If, like me, you always want details in the midst of your grief, Periódico Correo has them but be warned that it involves violence.
🎮 I’ve been thinking about why Celeste feels better to me (as in, more pleasant to play) than Animal Well does, and the reason is simple: in Celeste, when you die, you go back to your starting point on the same screen where you died. In Animal Well, you go back to a save point.
Angry/frustrated over the insurance situation with the school library. I don’t often get very angry. I am at present so angry that none of the things that would normally make me feel better even sound worthwhile.
Finished reading: The Lost World A Novel by Michael Crichton 📚
It’s fascinating to me that Crichton wrote this at Spielberg’s behest, but the movie is so very different from this. Only a few scenes and characters from this are in it.
My romanticized nostalgic childhood summer replay
In her article, How To Balance Being Online With Mindfully Logging Off, Stephanie Fallon says,
It can be so tempting to start over in some romanticized revamp of a 90’s childhood summer.
She’s talking here about the temptation of a radical digital detox but I read this and immediately thought, that sounds super fun! I want a 90s (or 80s!) childhood summer!
So I’m asking myself, what does that look like?
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- Participating in the library’s summer reading program
- And thus maxing out my borrowing privileges (50 books at a time)
- And spending hours and hours reading
- Hanging out at the pool as much as possible
If I want to go mid-to-late-90s, I’d add in participating in one or more theatrical productions and doing some hobbyist web development.
As an educator who only works 10 months out of the year, I think I can get pretty close to this. I’m thinking about how I want to meld it with having my kid at home with me for many weeks, too, as he’s only doing a few camps this year.
What would your nostalgic romanticized childhood summer look like?
Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚
A great time and at its most interesting in the places where the movie departed from it.
💬📚📝 “I offer up the idea of the safety of a sentence for you right now, the possibility of a place to put yourself, to put your heart. A place to rest for a while from these feverish days.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words
💬📚📝 “How do I cut through all the constant buzzing around me and capture the simple truths? With the slash of a sentence.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words
🔮📚💬 “You don’t need to push or clear away your humanness to sit with the numinous.” Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul.
🔮📚💬 Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul:
…the Tarot cannot reliably tell us when something will end or how something will turn out. It doesn’t consistently fix, heal, or tell us precisely what will happen or when it will happen. But it can be medicine in the face of deep pain. It can help us come home to and stay with ourselves, no matter what might be arising.