1. this soap.
{for smelling so good and for matching the bathroom.}
2. these candle nubs.
{and burning them.}
3. this happy accident.
{that maybe wasn’t an accident at all.}
4. these reeds.
{and the memory of my wishful thinking i might actually make a basket sometime soon.}
5. this drawing.
{because if i told you why i’d cry.}
other things:
progress angers people, but change is not the problem. the rage and resentment are.
it’s not their passion, it’s not their source of identity — it’s just a necessity.
that he should die without touch felt intolerable, a punishment for a man who didn’t deserve one.
on behalf of the futures of millions of nonspecific little women.
gentle, colorful animated films, curious animals and adventurous kids.
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Oh, so excited for the BAMkids film fest. Just bought our tickets.
Yay! We’ll be watching “with” you!
Curious about BAM. Looks awesome but what’s the age range. How do the kiddos like moving so quickly from story to story?
When the world news (and the US news in particular) leaves me weary, but I don’t want to turn away, I turn to your blog. I am constantly grateful for the uplifting hand-offered forward that you give. It matters. There’s a cloud over our little farmhouse here in the western appalachian mountains. It can be hard to be: southern, queer, & female with a mighty heart for justice in a rural farming community. It can be hard to strive forward and watch your neighbors vote for people who do them more harm but that old seductive friend: the feeling of superiority that is growing resentful towards “the other” some, well not good, but strength. When the compassionate majority is gerrymandered, antiquatedly unimportant due to the electoral college, and voter suppressed, it can feel lonely. It isolates like intended. It creates rifts in family and sad tired hearts. And I come here. I find something that can lift me up and also propel me forward. I know what you do takes a lot of energy, effort, and I’m sure some gnashing of teeth and I just wanted to thank you. And ask you to carry on.
Congratulations on the NYT article! I hope the new place is a good home for your family!
When we will know the story behind the drawing?
gotta keep some things close!
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