I made a thing! A woven fly swatter (out of a paper bag + chopsticks)
The finished product is fine but much more interesting and useful is the application of time and attention to creating. A relief to this jumpy brain today. #MakingThings
In State College, PA I ran across a community art fair which offered crafts made by kids. Believe me when I tell you that I was charmed over and over again. One of the most hopeful events I've attended in a long while. ☺️ Look at this original greeting card!
The perfect setting for my restless brain. Colyer Lake about 25min from Penn State. Undeterred by several T**mp supporter signs on the way here, I'm glad I made the trip.
11 days spent in this country of my birth and my most extreme hedonistic tendencies are revealed anew. From Sweet Tarts to Twizzlers to pop tarts to Applebee's to Cracker Barrel, too. Call it a coping mechanism. #travel
Just when I thought I was done book shopping today, I went back in for a bit of poetry and this is what came with me. 100% thanks to @davidnaimon.bsky.social & Between The Covers!
We visited the Penn Museum of archeology and anthropology today and I connected with a deity, I didn't know I needed: Guanyin, bodhisattva of compassion. It was the "royal ease" pose that sent me.
This is a @jomc.bsky.social appreciation skeet. #WrongWay is sticking with me in a way that fiction rarely does. Through the MC, Teresa, we receive a treatment of a woman's interiority that is immersive & expansive where her material conditions actually require her to stay small and imperceptible.
