“Joy is such a startling word. I guess I've been aiming low, hoping for moments of occasional relief. I feel like I am, like we all are, being strong-armed into reaction and binary thought. I'm drawn to anything that can remind me of playfulness or multiplicity. I was watching a YouTube video on film editing yesterday—a little thing, couple minutes long—and I found myself thinking about lateral movement, concurrent meanings, texture, atmosphere, the consequence of the frame. I don't know if I could call it joy, but I remembered that I had more strategies to understand the world than I was being encouraged to use, and more agency to use them than I was allowing myself.” —Richard Siken, TMR (full interview)

• currently planning: writing goals and creative projects to resume during winter break

• obsessed with: these old school book covers

• watching: kajillionaire is incredible

• reading: the great believers - rebecca makkai & around the world in 80 trees - jonathan drori

• listening to: you’re wrong about podcast

• eating: spinach enchilada leftovers

• drinking: zia pinion kola soda

• longing for: americans to “give thanks” by not endangering those around them; all humans to give two shits about the health and safety of everyone on this planet for as long as it takes. spoiler alert: there is no third wave, “measured risks” are selfish bullshit, and thanksgiving is already a genocidal whitewashed holiday that you can absolutely opt-out of, during a deadly pandemic or any other year.

to aiming low,
rhienna