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Jacques Monneraud’s ceramic work (not cardboard!) is absolutely incredible. Just gorgeous. I’m obsessed. The “tape” is glaze! 

via Present & Correct 





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What Should Have Been, Is : sketchbook & sourdough 


11/ 13/ 2024

- Ink test scraps in the sketchbook, seeing how they play together and with other materials and colors. 
    This is a new sketchbook, with thin paper that wrinkles and bleeds through- the opposite of what I’ve usually gone for. But I suffer at times, as many do, from letting my sketchbook languish for fear of messing it up with little tinkering experiments and scribbles. 
Determined to stop that, and to feel free to mess around, I got this book that guarantees nothing will come out perfect. It’s working so far, I love it. 

- Haven’t been baking my own bread much lately because of time, but wanting to keep my sourdough starter going, I’ve begun making scallion pancakes with the starter discard.
    I loosely use this recipe. These are very good and I want them pretty much every day. You can really play around with what goes in them- I add lots of shredded vegetables sometimes, random herbs, etc.



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“Poetry arrived
to look for me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or river,
I don’t know how or when,
No there weren’t voices, there weren’t words, or silence. ”

― Pablo Neruda


“Everything is on fire,
but everyone I love is doing beautiful things
and trying to make life worth living,
and I know I don’t have to believe in everything,
but I believe in that.”

– Nikita Gill





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by River Sanchez-Dudik

Resources to support Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanon

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is still providing on-the-ground support to Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and as refugees.

A thread of GoFundMe’s from Palestinians trying to flee Gaza/ survive

Haymarket Books has released four free ebooks: Essays for a Free Palestine, edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz, and Rosie Warren; Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti; Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze; and Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean. You can find them here.

Some of the most trusted reports on the genocide come from publications such as Al Jazeera, The Palestine Chronicle, Middle East Eye, Maktoob Media, and Palestinian journalist and activist Bisan Owda, who is reporting directly from Gaza.

Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Their coverage and interviews are very good.

Here is a complete list of the targeted consumer boycotts, divestments and pressure campaigns for companies profiting from the genocide of the Palestinian people.


Thank you to Halima Jibril




“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn





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Casa Mague, designed by Mauricio Ceballos X Architects in Malinalco, Mexico

Of real importance: snacks, pigeons, to do nothing.


“You are the only thing you have to offer, and you must offer yourself to the world in a true way.” - Charlie Kaufman 

07/ 28/ 2022
Here are some things I noticed this week and some things I made :

    1. Julia Turshen’s post on her love for her air fryer (compact convection oven) here. (I’ve recently been converted by Bach Pham) I’m going to use her technique this weekend to make this salt and pepper tofu, and some roasted shishitos. I miss Soba restaurant in East Atlanta, whose version of this always made me happy.

    2. I made three pigeons for a pigeon show at Faye’s in San Francisco. They’re made from trash. Old seltzer boxes, cardboard, packing fluff from something, leftover silkscreen ink, spraypaint. The show will run August 1 - September 10.

    3. This 1995 speech by Toni Morrison on racism and fascism. “Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing- marketing for power.” The whole speech is incredible and unfortunately more on-point today than ever.
“When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "market- placed," or rights sold, our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly.”

    4. Austin Kleon turned me onto Julie Phillips’ The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem and I’m really enjoying it so far. Could not resonate more. “What you need is the conviction that what you are doing is of real importance, and really worth doing, and you have to do it; and that conviction creates the sacred space around you.” - Ursula Le Guin via Julie Phillips

    5. I’d like to go to Casa Mague and read, lay quiet a while, and do nothing.

    6. Lukas Volger’s new cookbook Snacks for Dinner. I love snacks and I love to assemble fancy little plates of them for dinner. Even just for myself, but especially for friends and family, and every one of the recipes I’ve tried so far have been great.

    7. “A diver in Belize has made friends with an octopus. She named him Egbert and brings him treats in his own jar.”

    8. Here are a few songs that have been calming me down this week : 

Rob Scallon - Le Gentil & the Transit of Venus
Hiroshi Yoshimura - GREEN
Broken Social Scene - I Slept With Bonhomme At The CBC
The Halo Benders - Snowfall




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via Heather Christle’s daughter 


I’m going to build a fireplace and paint it crazy beautiful colors like Luca Guadagnino and nobody can stop me








A Mirical 


08/ 18/ 2022

    1. We’ve been watching all these cicadas appear at Chris’ house and transform out of their crusty shells right in front of us.  And then in this podcast I listened to yesterday Glennon Doyle said: 

   “So, crabs. They have seasons where they start to hide. They go into very dark places of the bay and they hide. And then they’re hiding because they’re losing their shell and they have to hide because they’re very vulnerable when they lose their shell. They’re soft shell crabs that are caught in between losing their old shell and growing a new shell.. Because you are a soft shell crab. I do believe that there is something about going through a deeply sad melancholy time that is about growth. That we can’t understand, what the hell is happening and we think it’s all bad. But what I do think is in this season… there is a time where it’s like a molting, that this depression thing for me is sort of terrible, and I don’t think I would choose it, but it also is a reset that happens every once in a while in my life, that is about getting bigger.”

    2.  I’ve started the book “How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing” by KC Davis after my longtime online friend Anabela Piersol recommended it.  It’s really interesting so far.  
    She repeatedly emphasizes, You don’t exist to serve your space; your space exists to serve you.” and “When we understand what really matters to us in terms of safety, comfort, and happiness, we can begin to let go of others’ judgments of how our spaces must look. One person may be perfectly comfortable and happy in a space that is significantly messier and less organized than another person.” This just hits home I think for so many of us who have a nagging feeling that we’re not “adulting” right, or that our homes should be different to be proper. I like her breakdown that it really just comes down to keeping our bodies and spaces safe and healthy, followed by increasing our comfort, followed by just things that make you happy. 

    3. The Earl Grey ice cream from Van Leeuwen is the best ice cream of all time and you can get it even if you don’t live in Brooklyn now. 

   4. I’m back in a phase where all I do is listen to Kikagaku Moyo every day or either The Morning Show with John Richards on KEXP (10am EST) 
Both are perfect. 





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Good day, I walked away; only to find 
it’s made of wood


Diana Vreeland said, correctly, “There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and make it yourself


08/ 04/ 2022

    1. All I want to eat right now is crudités with dip, it’s too hot for anything else. Here’s my hippie dip which is great with anything but especially with radicchio. 

  • 1 cup sunflower seeds (soaked if you have time)

  • 1/2 cup water (a little more if seeds not soaked)

  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

  • 1 tbsp nutritional yeast

  • 1 tsp kosher salt 

  • 1 tbsp olive oil 

  • 2 tbsp fresh dill (or other herb/s you want) 

  • 1 clove garlic

  • Blend/ food processor it all up, add a little more water if it won’t go. 


   2. This picture book Will Oldham made with Lori Damiano sounds so good. From Drag City:
Shorty’s Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on the song from the album Superwolves by Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy.”
.. The flood stands as metaphor for current impending changes in our planet, and the story works as a springboard for understanding concepts of interdependency, diversity and extinction. Colorfully illustrating as many creatures and their places as possible, Shorty’s Ark is an earth-affirmative vision meant to stimulate the curiosity and passion of those who encounter it.”

   3. Will Oldham’s music hit me at that sweet spot in life where the songs sink in and stay with you for the rest of your life. Back then he was going by Palace Music and Palace Brothers, and those are still the bands of his I like best. 

Here are a few favorites that are etched into me.

  • Palace Music - New Partner

  • Palace Music - (End of) Traveling

  • Palace Brothers - I Am a Cinematographer





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