Month: August 2022
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Monsoons in Tucson and Fall in Michigan
Watching a record monsoon season from over 1,600 miles away while here in Michigan it’s already fall. (Plus, are the storms in Michigan changing into something like a monsoon, or is that just me?)
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Reintegrating with Nature: Food-Foraging Edition (via WaPo Magazine)
Next in my series Reintegrating with Nature, an article about foraging in The Washington Post Magazine last weekend led me to thinking about how I’ll implement foraging into my life (post-graduation!), and the food-rich plot of land I’d like to call home at some point, not a small farm anymore, but a food forest instead.
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Reintegrating with Nature: Relocating ‘Wilderness’ within the Self
Toward re-establishing our stewardship within the natural world rather than beyond it.
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The impact of hearing myself reciting my poems
Reflections (mostly surprise, even shock) on feeling the impact of hearing my poetry, simultaneously the poet and a stranger to words I know reflexively.
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Autistic Eye Contact: the intensity of a shared gaze
Reflecting on my aversion to casually meeting people’s eyes.
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If you tell me “It’s like Portuguese author Saramago’s…” you can stop: I’m already buying a copy.
Excitment for Mohsin Hamid’s new book, compared by Michel Martin to Saramago’s Blindness. Also: read some Rushdie!
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Autistic Folks Study Autism: Intense World Theory
Musings on my journey toward realizing that I’m autistic, plus a neurological study I encountered this morning that for the time ever managed to represent my own experience.
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What’s left to say (with audio)
Climate grief and raw rage within a realist’s view of the status quo
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 