Nola talks to trees...and summer rain
happy belated solstice everyone <3 i hope you had a good Juneteenth and start to cancer szn.
summer is such a fascinating time. everything looks different in the light of an overhead sun. not that it’s easy, but i feel possibility returning. dancing, scheduling timebound activities that will only work in the heat and long days, seeking out water, being off work… i’m lucky to have routes back to optimism, to be safe and loved enough to take my time getting to hope.
what a privilege to have access to nervous system healing techniques, phenomenal chosen family, and these gorgeous stinking aching lakes. the water reminds me that we can love things that we have poisoned and that there is no poison that can keep us from what we most love. the land, ourselves, each other. and the art we alchemize from every distorted narrative we choose not to carry with us.
love,
nola
listen live ~
Sunday, July 19th: 7:00 PM; The Cardinal; 18+; $10; playing with Marble Teeth
listen at home ~
Body count (on patreon - free): eviscerating the glorification of sex and romance
literalize the music ~
Tightrope postcards: free; send them to friends or ask me to write you one ;)
Tightrope tanks: $25 or sliding scale; I consider all current subscribers inaugural “fans” and am happy to gift you one
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life sparks ~
listening to: Peaches (Burry), Helpless (Suki Waterhouse), Achilles And (Runnner), California (Chappell Roan), Pretty Girl (Hayley Kiyoko), Your Girl (Towa Bird), In the Sun (Joseph Arthur), Clean It Up (Indigo De Souza), Lipstick Lover (Janelle Monae), Sober (Lorde), The Suburbs (Arcade Fire), Closer (Tegan and Sara), Loudspeaker (Muna), Angel from Montgomery (John Prine), Ankles (Lucy Dacus), Know How It Hurts (IDER), Believer (Syml), What’s Up? (4 Non Blondes)
reading: still slowly working on Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships (David Schnarch) (thanks Faith!)
watching: Pillion, How to Shoot a Ghost, D.E.B.S., The Wonders, Waitress, From the Land of the Moon, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, 10 Things I Hate About You, Shiva Baby, The Ultimatum: Queer Love, Roswell
practicing: dancing, concert tix, homeopathy, swimming, smoothies, shooting (platonic) shots
creative themes: depression & efforting, surrendering to love/grief, problematizing madison
learn about each other ~
ask me an anonymous (or not) question and I’ll respond in the next email <3
