A walk outdoors with no chatter crowding your mental space is better than an hour in the gym with the TVs blasting

Proud of you SF Bay Area for a string of peaceful protests up and down the peninsula. Exhilarating and heartwarming to walk in community with all of you! All colors, all ages, all faiths. 🙏🏽

🧵 Print this date on your forehead, creators! Tues. February 25 is the deadline to submit your comments to the UK's special Consultation on Copyright and AI. Writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers—anyone who creates or cares @ protecting our creators' rights, this concerns you.

More info follows:

Have you been BlueSky-roasted? If not, what're ye waitin' for?? Here's where you do it: blueskyroast.com. And here's mine—especially love the "Real You" bit:

(Props to @vwarheit.bsky.social for the tip!)

Pardon the pun but... the first Raindrop just dropped!
Short musings, insights, and observations in the world of #Art, #Music, #Writing, and #Film. Recommend to leave your umbrella at home ☔ — and please drench some of your friends!

themuse.substack.com/p/raindrops-...

Yes, I'm grateful for what Life has given me. For my family, friends, colleagues, past present and future. But I'm even more grateful for those voices who are peeling back the foggy curtains of myth muddying our complicated history.

🙏 to @kathleenduval.bsky.social & @charlescmann.bsky.social

We live chained by a gilded necklace of numerical beads. They are all our creation, our doing and undoing, our liberator and executioner, our truth teller and fake news pundit.

Our god and our demon.

We don’t live and die by the sword anymore. We live and die by the numbers.

bit.ly/3ZnLWFk

🧵 6/6 Because this house… is the forever home all authors should have. A home all your own, on your own land, your own property, not beholden to any corporate landlord, not even an HOA.

We open the doors in early 2025.

I’m building my forever home. 🧵 1/6

I was going to use a template for the blueprints, bc it’s easier than hiring a whole team of architects and bc I really loved it. Clean, white walls, minimalist accents, and lots and lots of open space. So many possibilities...

Breath is the only autonomic function we can control on command. And yet... in so many ways it controls us. If we only knew just how to let go...

themuse.substack.com/p/breathless

#essay #writing #poetics #breathwork