- Every time I hear of another high-profile tech layoff, I remember the hubris of those founders spending oodles of money like a decade or so ago? They built their little corporate castles in their own image with investor money and called them campuses. People talk about the CEOs lining their pockets and that's valid, but those same CEOs are children with no sense of fiscal responsibility to the business. Ain't no one can tell me that supporting a community is less worthy than subsidizing some asshat a yacht or luxury Italian wedding or less important than adding meditation pods no one will use because they were laid off.
- Speaking of the current era, now might be a good time to read Jonathan Swift again. We are patterns after all.
- Weighted blankets are often recommended to relax but I learned that my fave thing is to use heat. Lately I've been looking forward to decompressing with a book and a heating pad (and a salty snack when I feel extra indulgent). My daughter likes it too, often sidling up to me to get some of the warmth. It always makes me smile when she does.
- Jaq Cieslak, one of my favorite knitwear designers, started a new newsletter called Bodies of Work. The debut post is beautiful, vulnerable, relatable, and worth a read.
- One of the funniest things about living in Mississippi is that grocery stores here do not dedicate a trifling amount of space for iced tea. Oh noooo. It's a whole ass AISLE of every variant one can dream of... sweetened, extra sweet, zero sugar, unsweetened, decaf, lemon, lemonade fusions... That's just one brand too. It's bonkers. I'm a hot tea girlie myself but I found it oddly fascinating to see so many neatly lined up in one place.
- Oh... I learned though doomscrolling Youtube shorts that crabs have been ascended to be a category because quite a few animals evolved to have key characteristics of the original crab. In other words, evolutionarily speaking, the crab bod is possibly many animals' final form O_O I think this showed up because I played a PBS documentary about the mysteries of the deep or something to that tune. Long live the algorithm.
- Current Obsessions: singing loudly and horribly, the first burst of sunshine in a gloomy weather week. Trying new types of exercises (next week I start my new cycle of new ones). Finding new music to put on loop.
Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them.
– Sarah Addison Allen (Other Birds)