That’s awful!

I usually curse my cat’s “shit rakes” when he puts them all over my clean table/counter/ etc

Also Area X kept me up many nights, reading your engrossing novel, so yeah!

You wrote in Esquire “Climate Fiction Won’t Save Us,” and I discovered it while teaching my Literature and the Environment course, and you made me think very critically about the use of the term “climate fiction,” which I then forced my students to consider…how dare you

🧵🧵🧵 (agh I’m losing track) it’s hard to keep peace when my neighbors are calling each other and me horrible names. I don’t fault anyone who is choosing a different way to keep their peace, nor do I hope to instruct anyone to change that. I just think it’s worth considering

Ok, so this very difficult and challenging moment we find ourselves in may be the precise moment at which we’re have the opportunity to pause and reflect on the true impact of our ambitious idealism up to this point. We can adjust course to ensure that we move in a sustainable way.

and the pace at which we push our ideals on the world is no longer serving us well. *I recognize that we are a country of many people with VASTLY different perspectives, agendas, and beliefs, but there is a generally agreed upon “American Dream”, yes?*

It’s a bit of a young adult in the grand scheme of things. We’re seen as a relatively young country, prideful (too often to a fault), and with strongly embedded values 🇺🇸🦅 However we are witnessing some extraordinary and painful realizations that maybe the direction we out heading, 🧵

and maybe a little youthful pride. Cups represent emotion, intuition, water—the fluidity of our existence. As I understand it the Knight of Cups symbolizes the transition that must happen when our young ambitious ideals butt up against reality. I immediately thought of our country. 🧵

I like to think of tarot as a tool that helps me focus and identify what’s already going on up in my noodle—which is usually hard to pin down, so something like tarot helps. Knights typically symbolize transitioning into adulthood, some experience mixed in with some immaturity 🧵