It's fall y'all

Happy fall equinox!

I enjoy noticing the seasons and celebrating the changes around me. It’s getting darker and rainier. Time to hunker down. More warm beverages, less ice cream. Bring on the sweater weather

fore + shadow

The book I’m reading atm -- Fish do not Exist by Lulu Miller -- has some excellent foreshadowing in it. Things come back around and I’m like yes you did mention that briefly

Do I do this as I minimize things, as I slowly let details unfold about myself, about what’s on my mind?

Do we do this as we test the water for bigger things? Things that we’re afraid to say?

As we ease into phase 2, as we go back into the world what is being foreshadowed? What is being planned?

What was foreshadowed and ignored in reports many moons ago? How do ideas and threads and thoughts echo through time and culture? Through lives?

What is being foreshadowed by this moment now? What choices do we make about the future? In a few chapters where will we find ourselves?

Record of loss

This quote pulled me today. It’s about loss and change. I don’t know where I got it from. I wasn’t keeping track then apparently.

It makes me think of “God of Loss” by Darlingside, a song that comes up a lot these days. Partially because it’s topical. Partially because it’s in my forest fires playlist.

I think about what we’ve lost, all collectively at once. I think about grief, a personal and ongoing process as I recover from injuries, as I mourn the future I’d had planned and no longer have. We are all in different ways grieving the future we’d had planned and that we’d lost.

We also live in an era of broader loss and precariousness, something that we must all reckon with.

But there is also the fact that the only thing we can be certain of is change, that being alive means loss to some extent. With that loss comes new things.

Flexible workspaces are more productive

As much as I miss studio I also enjoy spending more time working from home. Everything is set up just as I like, and having my stuff in one place instead of two is really nice. It’s also quiet here so it’s so much easier to concentrate. Open plan offices are unawesome and I am getting way more done now. My final submission was my best work of the semester despite being sick in part because I was doing something I have a knack for and in part because my energy just went towards working, not ignoring all the stuff going on around me.

Haircuts

I have general thoughts on hair — I’m working on a book about hair and Harry Potter — and in this season of quarantine haircuts this seemed like a fun one.

Transit is rad cursive

I thought it’d be cool to try as a cursive too. Looks like it could be embroidered.

Transit is rad

Play around with fonts and enthusiasm for transit. Thinking about doing a few of these.

Questions

A Krista Tippet quote

To find a home

A lovely wee quote. I often wonder where my home is and where I might be able to go to feel at home

Let's build better places

I'm on a let's build/make better places kick. Stumbled upon a @adamstones quote for today. Seems fitting.

rest + assured

A fun turn of phrase. Feeling sleepy

Lean into each other

A quote from Holding Space pod by Dr. Cassidy Freitas. I was playing around with the colour palette of navy blue, grey and light pink. Don’t know if it’s really working. Something to explore more.

Health care is more than hospitals and doctors

Canadians are really proud of our universal health care, which we are lucky to have. But also only covers some things. When I have needed other services I’ve been struck but how wildly unfair it is that I live in a place that loves health care but where your income decides whether you get to go to the dentist or to physio or to therapy. It’s wrong.

Health care is more than doctors visits and hospitals. Uninsured services are a big problem and we need to close the gaps.

Whatcha reading these days

I can map out periods of my life based on how I felt when I was reading a particular book.

Why + not

Really why not