SCALES #62: projected locality
Hello! I hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Around here, as I think across many parts of the US, the last few days have been when the reality of the...
SCALES #61: devilberries
Hello! This here newsletter has wandered a bit from the original goal of assembling a series of small, imperfect dispatches into the wilds of perpetually...
SCALES #60: "seam in the year"
Hello! Happy 2020! SCALES is back for a new run. Months of patchy silence over this channel hasn’t meant I haven’t been stewing about potential SCALES...
SCALES #59: real, lived-out difference
Hello! There’s been a lot of excellent concert-going recently. (And more to come!) Last night Apollo’s Fire, the baroque orchestra, performed its first night...
SCALES #58: enter entirely
Hello! I’m back. Different town, different job, same newsletter. Easing back into it. I was beat to the newsletter punch in recommending Robyn talking about...
SCALES #57: plantain handoff
Hello! I defended last week! The defense itself was pretty painless but its reality hasn’t quite sunk in. My life has been structured around my PhD research...
SCALES #56: grand under-sweep
Hello! A lot of thinking about geologic time recently. (And no, not just as I look back at the length of my Ph.D., amiright?? *embarrassed rimshot*) Recently...
SCALES #55: concordance
Hello! Brain is still ringing from seeing poet Susan Howe speak last night. The title of the evening was CONCORDANCE, the title of a new poem and book she...
SCALES #54: fixed point
Hello! Well, hi. It’s been a while. There has been… a lot that’s happened. The feeling of having journeyed through some passageway, emerging out the other...
SCALES #53: small silver wreath
Hello! Welcome to the extremely aughts coffeeshop playlist edition of SCALES. Definitely haven’t heard this warbly Bright Eyes song (feat. Emmylou Harris!)...
SCALES #52: spiderlings
Hello! And happy new year. I’m writing from an outpost of what I guess is the new ~cool St. Paul~, a converted industrial space coffeeshop with its internal...
SCALES #51: cube rule
Hello! Time today for an end-of-year check-in with my “go-to 2018” playlist. A reminder of the ground rules: music released this year, ordered by when I...
SCALES #50: other weaves
Hello! Against all odds, I’ve made it to issue #50 (fifty!) of this here newsletter. I’ve found it to be a rewarding project throughout, so thank you, dear...
SCALES #49: (catuerreotype?)
Hello! It’s been busy in these parts—and, you know, just a little eventful in the world—but this newsletter has awoken from its slumber. There have just been...
SCALES #48: polymorphic chocolate
Hello! A bit of an inadvertent relaxed summertime funtime schedule for this here newsletter, with a break that just kept going and going. But I’m here now...
SCALES #47: chameleonic laser
Hello! I read Wait, Blink by Gunnhild Øyehaug, an ingenious short novel written in 2008 and just translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson. Some of the...
SCALES #46: kind & burrowing creature
Hello! There’s been some honest-to-goodness chemistry happening in lab. Setting up reactions, running TLC plates, rotovapping, the whole lot. Honestly, it’s...
SCALES #45: albedo & flavedo
Hello! Things in droplet-land are circling back to the setup from last summer. Turns out, despite previous hopes, cutting out a paper triangle, wetting it...
SCALES #44: full of holes
Hello! Particularly upsetting week to be living here in the U S of A. (Throat clearing: of course the current historical moment doesn’t have a monopoly on...
SCALES #43: respective metal boxes
Hello! I read Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi, a story about a relationship between two young people in Austin. The book happens to fall in a Certain...