I’m lucky: they gave me a canonical #spidersona, trying to figure out how to make a better world for her kid while dealing with the daily tasks of early parenthood.
Have now escaped 100% of @bullcityescape's rooms. And we'll be back when they make new ones!
I’m here for improv in libraries AND I recommend checking out FairPlayMN’s documents on levels of intimacy & boundary check-ins as part of your programming prep. Understanding that the first thing you have to YES AND is the fundamental dignity of your scene partner is crucial.
Writing music and reading music are different music. My writing music is video game or film scores. My reading music is chill beats, piano, quiet instrumental stuff. What about you? What’s your writing music? What’s your reading music?
I need to be reading & writing about information literacy as a sociocultural/sociotechnical practice, but I think swiss cheese Mom-brain is incompatible with Practice Theory. I just can’t handle words like “ontological” and “epistemological” when I’m running on 2 weeks of poor sleep because of my kid teething and never napping.
I’m trying to find a word to help me navigate these times in 2019. Something having to do with cycles… Being like the moon or like water… Working hard at high tide? Still figuring it out.
Today I listened to Lindsay Mack’s amazing first episode of the new version of her podcast, in which she discusses birth, death, and thresholds with doula/mom/actor/comedian Erica Livingston of Birdsong Brooklyn. It was so phenomenally healing. I might try to listen again and take notes so I can share the moments that really stood out. I haven’t fully processed my birth trauma, even though my kid is 26 months old. I so appreciate being given permission to see myself as postpartum forever, because that’s the reality of parenthood, isn’t it? Thank you so much Lindsay and especially Erica for this wondrous bit of medicine.
What Kimberly Wrote, 12/12/2018
I wrote 2 pages about new models of information literacy in affinity spaces today, or about 968 words.
I’m trying a new thing with my writing. Usually my process is Read > Take Notes > Concept Map > Outline > Write, the whole paper at once. But right now I’m trying a thing where it’s Read > Take Notes > Quick Outline > Write for just a small chunk of the paper and I’m really liking it.
I’ve probably read that this was a good way to write in a million places, but I can’t identify any of them right now.
There are lots of gaps, but I wouldn’t even know those gaps were there before I started writing, so there we are. If you’ve been struggling, maybe try this more cyclical writing process.
Toward a personal brand
I find myself admiring people who seem together. They are well-coiffed. Their clothes are carefully styled. They welcome you into their homes and effortlessly manage to make it feel like everything is totally fine and will continue to be so. They are pleasant. They are calm.
I recently gave myself permission to accept that I will never be one of these people.
Smooth and collected will never be part of my personal brand.
Then I gave myself permission to think about what is, naturally, part of my personal brand, and go all-in on that. Here’s what I came up with:
- scholarly
- whimsical
- geeky
- magical
- enthusiastic
- bada** who gets sh*t done
- big and epic but also sparkly
- warm
- loving
“I forgot to create a personal brand” card by Emily McDowell. You can buy it! There’s also a mug and a magnet.
Three friends with different backgrounds participated in online text therapy sessions from January to April 2018. Friends With Secrets captures a slice of their lives ? the good, the bad, the heartbreaking ? and how they try to process the world around them. The sessions have been refined. The identities of the therapists have been protected.
Just read all of Friends with Secrets and cried and I think there’s a lot of journaling in my future?
Me, to W— this morning: I don’t know if you can cast every musical with the characters from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
Him: Challenge accepted!