Notes
I just want to be able to feel grief in my heart and also sleep. It doesn’t seem like a lot to ask but my body disagrees.
It’s never too late to start a year of making, so here I am starting my Year of Making 2023 on November 20. This is the Goldberry shawl, designed by Michele DuNaier in Lion Brand TruBoo in the Goldenrod colorway. The pattern contains many delightful Lord of the Rings references.
Want to read: Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 📚
Want to read: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey 📚
If you’re in North Carolina and interested in having natural organic reduction (aka human composting) available as a funeral option, please consider using this form letter I built with resistbot to contact your NC legislators.
Want to read: Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek 📚
🔖💬 “Your death matters. You can choose something that will reflect the values and beliefs that you held in your life, and translate them into your death. What you choose to do, is your final act, your final gesture on this earth.” Sarah Chavez, The Order of the Good Death
Want to read: Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads 📚
Want to read: Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom 📚
Want to read: The Victorian Book of the Dead by Chris Woodyard 📚
Want to read: A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death by Chris Woodyard 📚
Want to read: Good Grief: Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels 📚
Want to read: The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein 📚
Want to read: The Morbid Anatomy Anthology by Joanna Ebenstein 📚
Want to read: Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Mel Gordon 📚
🔖📚🎭 Read Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Literary Hub).
Finished reading: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary 📚
A helpful framing of normal, baseline anxiety as a source of information that can spur us to creativity and action.
🔖 Read The enshittification of academic social media (The Thesis Whisperer).
Set up the Vapor1994 theme with custom colors on my website until I create a custom theme. A few font-size and color tweaks to make still but mostly I’m very happy with it.
🔖 Read Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?.
Fun to read about all the IndieWeb’s neighbors!
Finished reading: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish 📚
A 17th Century bit of philosophical fantastical adventure.
📚💬 “I endeavour to be as singular as I can.” Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World
Hey Micro.bloggers and other interested parties, do you have favorite resources that helped you learn how to create a Hugo theme?
🔖 Read Two Wins for Public Libraries This Week at the Polls by Kelly Jensen (Literary Activism).
Good things are happening but we need to remain vigilant. The people trying to take books out of libraries and take control away from library professionals are immensely well-funded.