💚Charlotte Donlon

so he’s going to get pretty desperate and he has the nuclear codes

who wants to help make a list of all the things we stopped talking about after he started this war?

pretty brutal

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

💚✨🙌

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

after I complete a significant task on my to do list that I’ve been needing to get to for a few weeks, I feel like I deserve to take the rest of the day off

that’s how that works, right?

um. Hilarious. :)

stuck at a car shop getting new tires that I should’ve bought a few months ago

and since I’ve been here I’ve done about six email-ish things from my to-do list because I’m stuck at a car shop getting new tires

might start coming by for an admin co-working session once a week because who knew

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

This is how you live a life

Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood

Fantastic news: the work of Allan Rohan Crite, featured in two shows in Boston this past fall, will now be on view at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum through the end of July. I'm a huge fan of Crite's work & would recommend a visit if you're in the area zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...

Saw both shows in December. So good. Love Crite’s work.

The Place Between Our Pains by K.J. Ramsey: 9780593727393 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us, no matter how much life hurts. “Unapologetically...

And I encourage everyone to pre-order The Place Between Our Pains by @kjramseywrites.bsky.social because this is a beautiful, humorous, soulful, and joyful memoir about her experiences with chronic illness that will make you want to boldly press into reality instead of succumbing to fear.

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the waters of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and the harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the mouth—rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us—when we think of this, as we are so frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature. — Virginina Woolf, On Being Ill

on the 10th day of this illness (which is now a sinus infection and I have antibiotics now so I’ll be fine)

I present the first (glorious!) sentence of Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

this world needs more tears of joy and delight and goodness

cheers to all the fellow tender hearted olds

The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956

Yes to all of this.

Yes. I have to be very intentional about this. It’s become easier over the years but it still takes some effort on my part. More than one thing is allowed to be true.

I love this. Thank you for sharing.

what’s keeping you from spiraling down into the depths of despair?

@jamesmartinsj.bsky.social also good to know about your new book—buying a copy for myself and each of my kids (ages 23 and 21)

“I often wonder why we don’t put the Beatitudes in classrooms. It’s always the Ten Commandments. What about “blessed are the poor,” “blessed are those who mourn,” “blessed are the meek,” “blessed are the peacemakers”? Why is there never a push for the Beatitudes? It’s a very strange thing to me.”

the spiritual practice of preparing for a book launch by noticing your ego and returning to your soul again and again

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

Minneapolisians (is that a word?) fighting for democracy in seen and unseen ways are in the 30%

people who watch Fox News are not in the 30%

I used to think most people are trying hard to do the best they can but now I think it’s more like 30% are trying hard to do the best they can

honestly, my percentage is probably lower but I don’t want to appear too cynical

or maybe hope is winning

happy Tuesday!