Zohran Mamdani and daisies.
... plus some other nice things.
““I think it is healing behavior, to look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it.”
-adrienne maree brown
Rather than an intro, I’m just going to go straight into nice stuff… like this song by Valerie June…
Plus here is my list of June life stuff… things I’ve been doing… things I’ve been enjoying… things that are getting me through…
Valerie June’s new album Owls, Omens and Oracles.
Haim’s new album I Quit.
Lyz Lenz’s book This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended my Marriage and Started my Life.
Baking zucchini bread with the zucchinis in my farm box.
Looking up at the moon with my baby.
Going camping and actually seeing stars.
Being in the woods.
Having the windows open when it’s raining.
Daisies and Echinaceas.
Zohran Mamdani. And New York City. (Ann Friedman shared an article in her newsletter by Apoorva Tadepalli on canvassing for Zohran Mamdani and it’s an article that gave me hope).
Fireflies.
Oak trees.
Protest.
Community organising.
Community defence.
The documentary, A Trip to Infinity.
Wisconsin Public Media’s podcast series, Deep Time. This was truly moving and I’ve listened to some of the episodes multiple times.
Emergence Magazine’s podcast episode, “The Ethics of Listening to Whales.” Within this episode they consider, among many other beautiful ideas, the limitations of language and suggest that we should not relate through language but through care.
Finally, this month’s feminist fashahhhhn collage (a bonus for paid subscribers and also a new addition to the email just because):
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