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.

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.

I’m doing a couple of qualitative action research projects at work and, as one does in qual research, have collected a huge amount of data (mostly student work samples) and now have to figure out how to analyze it. 📓