I live for these "What's Working" volumes - thank you! My own "what's working" for the past week...Miles Davis' album Sketches of Spain, Adrienne Maree Brown's new book "Loving Corrections", and Elizabeth Gilbert's weekly LETTERS FROM LOVE newsletter.
this combo of cozy autumn adorableness coupled with radical reads/listens on mutual aid and community as survival is soooo up my alley. love this & you!!! <3
Obsessed with these reads and listens, thank you! 😍😍 (I mean, always obsessed with your link roundups, but this one is particular and I’m grateful to be included in it this time)
Obvs also obsessed with the witchy, fall, new-school-supplies vibe you have going on over there.
It’s starting to be ‘puzzle while listening to an audiobook’ season! Also I read You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian last week (queer romance in the 50s). It’s the second in a series and it’s delightful. Heartwarming and little angst.
Flo, I discovered "puzzle while listening to an audiobook" last winter and I love it so much! I thought I wasn't an audiobook person until I tried it in this way.
I applied for the 2025 Cabin Cohort inspired by the Supernuclear case studies! I also highly recommend the book Momo by Michael Ende. It's a children's book that my friend Abigail Rose Clarke introduced me to and I think you would really like it.
Thank you for the tip about Hana Albaioumy's story. I'm going thru some similar discuussions but with family in a different country. Its good to hear her thoughts
Reading Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's What If We Get It Right, Ferris Jabr's Becoming Earth, and the climate solutions fiction anthology No More Fairy Tales. Also, I just got the "my hold just came in!" feeling from Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice, excited about it since I really enjoyed the first book in the series.
I just got a kindle page turner so I can stop holding my ebook in a way that hurts my hand/wrists while I'm reading. I had no idea these existed as a thing! (I got "Oresoc RF Remote Control Page Turner for Kindle Paperwhite" - it's usb-c rechargable and silent and has decent industrial design.)
Watching the 2008 tv show Leverage, a crew pulling elaborate heist-scams against the greedy and corrupt that's cute and fun so far.
Leverage! \o/ I love that show. I especially love that they don’t tear the protagonists apart just to make it ‘interesting’. Relationship building can also be interesting. It’s also quite satisfying to see the greedy and corrupt face consequences for once.
I’ve gotten totally sucked into “silent hiking” videos on YouTube. 45 mins of ASMR hiking in Nepal?? Yes pls. Reading Descent and Rising: Womens Stories and Embodiment of The Innana Myth. I feel like I’m climbing into my body and my ancestry with each page. I love walking cemetery in my neighborhood, reading the gravestones and crunching leaves. Earl grey tea with milk. Windows open and extra blanket on the bed, fall in Vermont is pure magic.
What’s working: moving throughout the day instead of getting sucked into my couch. Lemon ginger herbal tea. Breathing as though my breath is a wave. Blue Bottle Hayes Valley espresso beans. The delicious tiredness from marathon training.
Trader Joes brought back their crumpets (which always makes me think of the UK retreat!) and I bought extras to put in the freezer because of how much I love butter and jam on a freshly toasted crumpet with a nice mug of tea during cozy season. Hooray for fall!
I immediately put I Hope This Finds You Well on hold at my local library and talked myself out of signing up for Compositing Capitalism (because I just don't have the bandwidth right now). Top notch recommendations 😊
I live for these "What's Working" volumes - thank you! My own "what's working" for the past week...Miles Davis' album Sketches of Spain, Adrienne Maree Brown's new book "Loving Corrections", and Elizabeth Gilbert's weekly LETTERS FROM LOVE newsletter.
Oh! I didn't know Loving Corrections was out yet. Ordering immediately! Thanks, Bethany :)
The Letters from Love are amazing! Writing this way helps me so much!
this combo of cozy autumn adorableness coupled with radical reads/listens on mutual aid and community as survival is soooo up my alley. love this & you!!! <3
True witch season in every way!! Love you right back🖤
I came here to share two words: Eggplant involtini.
And a few more: Smitten Kitchen. Thank me later. Adding the lemon juice at the end is essential and delightful!
Marching orders received!
Obsessed with these reads and listens, thank you! 😍😍 (I mean, always obsessed with your link roundups, but this one is particular and I’m grateful to be included in it this time)
Obvs also obsessed with the witchy, fall, new-school-supplies vibe you have going on over there.
I think I’ll also be taking the Composting Capitalism course so maybe we can compare notes 🤓
Yaaaay!
It’s starting to be ‘puzzle while listening to an audiobook’ season! Also I read You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian last week (queer romance in the 50s). It’s the second in a series and it’s delightful. Heartwarming and little angst.
Also, finding the right pace for me (for work, my newsletter, movement, etc), even if it doesn’t look like what other people are doing.
Love a devotion to right pacing!
Flo, I discovered "puzzle while listening to an audiobook" last winter and I love it so much! I thought I wasn't an audiobook person until I tried it in this way.
I applied for the 2025 Cabin Cohort inspired by the Supernuclear case studies! I also highly recommend the book Momo by Michael Ende. It's a children's book that my friend Abigail Rose Clarke introduced me to and I think you would really like it.
On it!
Thank you for the tip about Hana Albaioumy's story. I'm going thru some similar discuussions but with family in a different country. Its good to hear her thoughts
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Reading Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's What If We Get It Right, Ferris Jabr's Becoming Earth, and the climate solutions fiction anthology No More Fairy Tales. Also, I just got the "my hold just came in!" feeling from Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice, excited about it since I really enjoyed the first book in the series.
I just got a kindle page turner so I can stop holding my ebook in a way that hurts my hand/wrists while I'm reading. I had no idea these existed as a thing! (I got "Oresoc RF Remote Control Page Turner for Kindle Paperwhite" - it's usb-c rechargable and silent and has decent industrial design.)
Watching the 2008 tv show Leverage, a crew pulling elaborate heist-scams against the greedy and corrupt that's cute and fun so far.
Sounds like a show I would love!
Leverage! \o/ I love that show. I especially love that they don’t tear the protagonists apart just to make it ‘interesting’. Relationship building can also be interesting. It’s also quite satisfying to see the greedy and corrupt face consequences for once.
added those books to my libby - thank you!
what's working in terms of self care - hydrating and moisturizing, taking collagen/protein/mushrooms mixture in my morning coffee.
Ooo which mushrooms?
I’ve gotten totally sucked into “silent hiking” videos on YouTube. 45 mins of ASMR hiking in Nepal?? Yes pls. Reading Descent and Rising: Womens Stories and Embodiment of The Innana Myth. I feel like I’m climbing into my body and my ancestry with each page. I love walking cemetery in my neighborhood, reading the gravestones and crunching leaves. Earl grey tea with milk. Windows open and extra blanket on the bed, fall in Vermont is pure magic.
Oo I am intrigued by that book title! Thanks for sharing, Tracey.
What’s working: moving throughout the day instead of getting sucked into my couch. Lemon ginger herbal tea. Breathing as though my breath is a wave. Blue Bottle Hayes Valley espresso beans. The delicious tiredness from marathon training.
"The delicious tiredness from marathon training." This just gave me a full-body fizz of nostalgia!
Trader Joes brought back their crumpets (which always makes me think of the UK retreat!) and I bought extras to put in the freezer because of how much I love butter and jam on a freshly toasted crumpet with a nice mug of tea during cozy season. Hooray for fall!
*runs out to buy crumpets IMMEDIATELY*
I immediately put I Hope This Finds You Well on hold at my local library and talked myself out of signing up for Compositing Capitalism (because I just don't have the bandwidth right now). Top notch recommendations 😊
Books by Camila Sosa Villada!