hi.

i. PAST.

SOMEWHAT RECENTLY, I:

• finished: an incredibly challenging work project

• made: a personalized food & drink memories zine for a friend’s birthday; cyanotypes in the park

• learned: way too much about whole grains

• searched online for: “garth brooks richter scale” “homemade slime” “dog pheremone spray”

• bought: my first squishmallow (a stack of pancakes with pat of butter)

• found: hardcover edition of let the record show by sarah schulman in a free library

• saw: a flame skimmer dragonfly in the backyard

• visited: seattle

• helped start a queer ERG at work

ii. PRESENT

CURRENT STATUS:

• reading: paradise by toni morrison and all fours by miranda july (give her her pulitzer already)

• watching: limited series irma vep

• listening to: melissa carper

• eating: cucumber seaweed salad

• drinking: sampling various non-alcoholic canned apertifs as i work on a new zine

• recovering from: serious burnout

• longing for: time in cool bodies of water

• musing on: memento mori

• obsessed with: my cooling weighted blanket

• harvesting: gorgeous and bountiful itachi cucumbers, herbs, and gladiolus from my garden

MY LATEST:

• writing: tilted house out of new orleans published “plague omens” and smoke and mold published 2 poems i wrote about time and the desert — please support these wonderful publications

• news: at the end of the month, i’m heading off to a writing retreat as one of 2024’s lambda literary fellows for fiction

• playlist: 2024MySummertimeThang

CURATION + RECOMMENDATIONS:

• book: in the dream house by carmen maria machado (also needs her pulitzer)

• films: a ghost story (2017) and the taste of things (2023) (sorrynotosorry they are both sad, but if you’ve seen either and want to discuss, let’s!!)

• listen: this episode of between the covers with megan fernandes

• marinate on: cameraperson by kirsten johnson (i come back to this minimum once a year since i discovered it)

keep cool.

<3,

rhienna