🧵 I made a pillow! Well, I covered a pillow. I used instructions from the Sewing 10 class from Brit + Co. My seams were so wobbly that I actually had to go back and hand sew a gap closed. I used a messy whip stitch to finish it but I’ve hidden the seam on the bottom here.
📚💬 “When no help comes from outside, a lost crop becomes a famine.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Finished reading: Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky 📚
Another delight from Timothy Janovsky. Full review coming soon!
Finished reading: Idol by Kristen Callihan 📚🎧
Disabled writer heroes: Leigh Bardugo. Esmé Weijun Wang. Johanna Hedva. I have more but these are the ones top of mind at this moment.
Finished reading: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera 📚
I love this book. Full review soon!
I’ve been conducting inventory on our 5000ish volume school library and it’s been going well. It’s surprisingly physical work. Today my arms don’t like it and I’m having to take more breaks than I have previously. This is an example of the variable disability of chronic illness. ♿
🔖 Read The real reason Musk retreated by Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence).
This article about the power of collective action really made me feel hopeful.
Finished reading: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚
A fascinating book about what our ghosts say about us.
