Kimberly Hirsh

🎙️It’s taken me more than 2.5 yrs, but I have finished listening to Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy. It is a delight. A Theatre Person walking you through the history of sketch is a lovely thing. And I do have a list of stuff to watch now.

Yesterday: Noodling on work stuff while swapping out winter clothes and putting away laundry.

Today: Getting. Things. Done. and marking them off my to-do list.

Both kinds of days are important.

📚💬📝 “All academics write but not all see themselves as writers.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest possible audience.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “The point is not to render ideas less complex—the point is to make the complex clear.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work without changing individual habits of being…” bell hooks, remenbered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein individual action can be united with collective struggle.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. Hubris? I’ve got special tape ordered to try and repair it but this is super disheartening. (Tears aren’t covered by the warranty.)

📚💬📝 “… the being we become in the very act of writing is only ever intimately present to the one who writes.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Writing that keeps us away from death, from despair, does not necessarily help us to be well.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow of ideas in my mind.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good fortune to be able to write only what I want to write when I want to write it.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the imagination allow.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

Giant cat!

It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.

📚💬📝 “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work that is distinctly feminist in outlook.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the struggle to create and maintain a culture where women’s words will be heard and valued is over. That struggle continues.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the passion of writing words.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

There have been 22 weekdays this September. My kid has been in school for only 14 of them. The 8 remaining days: 1 holiday, 1 school break, 3 home sick, 2 dentist appointments mid-day, 1 hurricane flooding cancellation. This has made it hard to establish a fall workflow.

I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I think) but Howl is actually a post-ac wizard whose family is v. disappointed he isn’t doing more with his PhD. This delights me. 📚🍿

Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚

Super fun! Highly recommend.

🔖 Read Howl’s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic

Finished reading: Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure by Patricia Ellis Herr 📚

An uplifting and compelling read. Herr documents her daughter’s successful climbing of the 48 NH mountains taller than 4000 ft. Highly recommend.