Happy April! Welcome back to my experiment in sharing, sans social media 🔮

Whether we talk every day or haven't talked in years, I hope you take it as an offering and please let me know if we intersect anywhere. If it’s not for you, there’s a way to unsubscribe at the bottom :)

In the rock tumbler of my mind

Non-fiction & speculative fiction about climate change

• Ministry for the Future wiki

• Venomous Lumpsucker goodreads

• Braiding Sweetgrass wiki

• Bonus: a tumblr user discovers (and decides to personally preserve) Native River Cane read

Essays/blogs

• Paul Romer's argument for a progressive tax on ad revenue. A proposal to start chipping away at the outsized influence of a few big corporations, along the lines of Chokepoint Capitalism; read

• Solomon Brager's webcomic about hostage posters - the different messages they send in the US vs Israel, and the conflict over them; read

• Matt Yglesias on AOC + the slow-grind of being a politician; read

• Patrick McKenzie lays out why banking systems + help centers can appear dysfunctional to customers; read

Currently-airing TV shows

• The Girls on the Bus (if a show about an election isn't all a bit much for you this year). It reminds me of Good Girls Revolt.

• A gorgeous adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow feat. Ewan McGregor

Upcoming plans

Travel

• Seattle May 22-28

• Chicago May 28-June 4

• somewhere in Europe in July - TBD ✈️

NYC in the spring 🌸

• Sundays at the community garden 🌱

• April 23: The Twenty-Sided Tavern

• May 5: Sorry Darling @ The Sultan Room; tix

• [manifesting it] May 10: Wicked @ The Bushnell, Hartford; tix

• Unscheduled:

  • Sometime in mid-May: The One With Violets In Her Lap @ The Flea

  • Queens Botanical Garden; deets

  • Beatrix Potter exhibit @ The Morgan Library & Museum (until June 9); deets

  • Toshiko Takaezu @ The Noguchi Museum (until July 28); deets

Where does the time go?

in 0.074 photos

• I'm finally back to my ~December levels of stair-climbing ability after a minor knee surgery last month 💪 bicycling coming soon!

• Thinking about ways to share my photography offline - a show could be fun (do you know anyone?) and there might be a book in the works 👀

• Work is an onslaught of small fires + an abundance of low-hanging fruit, and I'm trying to carve a coherent work-stream out of it all

in 6000 words

until ~midsummer ☀️

xoxo,

Beth