I mostly use recycled yarn so that also liberates me from fretting about wasting materials

I’m amazed that I seem to finally be developing patience—and learning that patience is the building block for learning! And you can only get there by focusing on the doing.

Anyhow, here are the last two things I made, both in the last week.
-A crocheted necklace that I gave to my friend who was visiting from Portugal (pattern by Aluma Klein, my favorite freeform crochet teacher!) &
-a gel plate print of a couple of young people starting out life in a new city.

-practice patience and self-compassion—it’s ok to rip out a row of stitches or start over with a project (and observe that the original enjoyment of the process has not gone away)
-avoid the cultural tendency to judge art making in terms of monetization. The practice itself has value! 3/4

Some things I’ve learned:
-focus on the pleasure of the process: sensory, physical, emotional
-start small so you don’t get overwhelmed
-try new things until you find a form or technique that you deeply enjoy—for me, it’s the flow experience and a feeling that my dendrites are almost tingling 2/4

We killed how many cancer research trials to pay for this?

The Golden Bough! Tale as old as time

Their show tunes faves:
My Fair Lady
Annie Get Your Gun
Music Man
Jamaica (all-black cast 1950s musical deserves more fans)

Also Rosemary Clooney’s Italian songs (Come-onna-my-house, mambo Italiano, & baci me my baby)—complete earworms that sound like an Irish girl meets Italian guy musical

Hahaha! My kids loved old show tunes as preschoolers and went on to acting, directing, playwriting, and best of all theatre tech as teenagers/college. College radio doing too. Made loads of very creative friends (last weekend we went to one friend’s avant-garde puppet show in LIC, wild stuff).

OP is an incredible energy WRITER. Word choices are what makes a good writer and so he is seeking better idioms. Have a nice day!

Pretty much all speech is performative, so it’s not really a gotcha. Gotta go, cooking something on my not performative induction stove! Oh look—I can do BOTH at the same time?!?😱

And believe me “top down clean energy policy” will meet a lot of popular and greenwashed resistance unless we shift away from fossil fuel culture and language that reinforces that “bad common sense.” Even if heat pumps, induction stoves, and solar panels are super cool and better tech than oil/gas.

We won’t topple fossil fuels with a few language tweaks. But maybe we can needle ourselves into being a little more intentional. Language reflects our aspirations, our desires, our standards. Let’s try to keep it clean.

Seriously, send me your ideas: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...

I’ve been amazed that no one has taken the “mind your own business” route and pointed out that anti-LGBTQ folks are annoying busybodies