Yesterday, while having some feels, I picked up an old favorite book with a small note inside:

“Smith Family Bookstore, 1pm, 8/18/14”

Who knows what else I had been up to that day? — likely an uneventful work day in Eugene in which I stole away during the lunch hour to wander the aisles — dreaming my favorite dreams for a bit before real life came crashing back in. Perhaps I would have recalled the day anyway while re-reading, or conflated that with another time?

Someday, the boys will have to sort thru all of the detritus I left behind…never fully knowing why this book stayed on shelf after shelf, moving from house to apartment to house, across an ocean no less, only to end up in the ‘donate’ pile that we all leave behind. Maybe it won’t survive that long, as I live on a tropical island now where Nature’s damp, mold, floods, or hurricanes might re-claim the delicate little pages before anyone else needs to concern themselves with whether or not I loved a thing, or simply couldn’t let go.

A bit of melancholy musing, but not sad. I’m here. I’m now.

And there’s even a bit more of this August left still for a re-read…

xoxo,
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This little Kickstarter-project clock using literary quotes to relay the time is adorable. It also seems imminently doable in a DIY sense, so…. maybe go support them (?). Or make your own? Follow your own rainbow, dear Maker.

Victoria Chang

Dear Memory is Victoria Chang’s writing based on fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and “the silences of her father” as an assemblage of mementos, poetry, and literary criticism in letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets. [via NPR] **

** (obvs, note the above link is an ‘affiliate link’ & gives this site a kickback if you happen to purchase from Bookshop. Tx.)

ALERT: BadaSS Women in History

Last Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day… hope you got in on the action & were inspired to flex your curiosity. Personally I like to make a whole week of it

THE BEAUTY OF DANCE, SEEN THROUGH THE POWER OF TOUCH

I was checking out some of the submissions for the Hackaday Prize, & saw this amazing project called KINETIC SOUL, which Shi Yun describes as a platform using computer vision to allow “the visually impaired to experience dance via kinetic feedback“. Very, very neat.

…as always, some #NewMusic

Oooh, Snarls has a new EP coming out soon: