vs with eve ewing: community is mutual accountability

my friend, andrew binet, tipped me off to the podcast, vs, and it’s amazing. food4thot is on break right now and vs is very much holding that space in my podcast lineup for queer thoughts and words right now.

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matthieu ricard: transform yourself to better serve others

one of my favorite quotes of all time is this line that i quote from grace lee boggs (though, no doubt, she wasn’t the first one to think this):

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ways i spread myself through my community

today is about eight weeks out from the average first frost in boston. that means today is the last day i can prune my rosemary. all its current growth needs to get hard and woody over the next four weeks so that those parts make it rhough winter. all the green on the plant will freeze and die off but the woody stuff will survive and produce lots of new leaves and things next year.

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alternative futures: what to do with a ubi

note: this world was inspired by a convo with grant williams on 12 sept 2017.

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conversation rundown with m.b.

this is a weird thing but it’s essentially a transcription of a convo that happened on 11 sept 2017 in copley square sitting in the sun with our bare feet in the fountain water. it’s mostly intended for me to have something to look back at when i want to expand on these thoughts later. they probably don’t make much sense to anyone else. &shrug;

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