so this is our lives shitting and pissing and dripping coffee on our white sweaters at best getting drunk enough to believe there is meaning in our exchanges
i wilt i sigh i wear skirts cut in the shape of the saturnine foremothers of the 50's tv depresses me
i am sick to death with disbelief and faithlessness i can see a way out at the peak of a mountain my entire race is too weary to climb and perhaps that was the intent all along to wear us out with insignificance until we are recumbent on the lawn our last signs of life the petering twitches of drowned moths if this is the end then enough already if this is the darkness before then my skin aches for the dawn and the uselessness of solitary efforts
what makes you feel part of the world? a particular poem, weird critters, oddball book group? Let me know. I wanna make a zine. specific sources would be awesome!
There's this quote, about all the great minds we lose because of poverty/oppression/lack of opportunity...it's like "think about all the Einstein's...". Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I'd like to use it in a paper but I don't have enough of the words to make a Google search work for me.
As part of my graduate studies, I am working to develop some kind of theory about the kind of knowing that comes out of communities. I think this has something to do with the way we share knowledge, and how we all grow from that sharing. How we in relationship make each other strong. One of my projects is to put together a 'zine I am going to call Solace. I would love for you all to participate in this, as you are each a part of the community that I have grown from/gotten strength from over the years. I am looking for you all to send me some information, any information at all that has been helpful to you, anything that has given you peace over the last few years, especially in the face of all that we (as a world) have been through recently. Please choose something you stumbled upon or were sent to, not something you made/did yourself. This can be images, poetry, lyrics, strange stories, weird animals, organizations out there doing really good work, I don't care. Just anything that gives you peace. Don't be afraid to offer up media stuff ie YouTube videos; I'll find a way to incorporate it.
When you forward this info to me please include a small blurb about who you are and why this information has given you Solace. You can drop it here as a comment or e-mail me at jack.coren@gmail.com. Please give me the name you would like me to credit you with. This is intended as a community-building exercise, and ideally I would like folks reading the zine to be able to get in touch with contributors. If you are interested in readers contacting you please also give me your e-mail addresses, livejournal/myspace/facebook sites, and any other info you would like me to share with readers.
The zine will be constructed in a (physically) cut-and-paste style, but I plan to scan and upload it as a file...would love to send you all a digital copy. I'll have to check out copyright issues about distribution but I would like it to be something which can be widely circulated for free.
i just started grad school and it gives me the thumpity thumps. I am having to restrain myself from ordering all the books NOW because i want to read them all and know it all NOW. goddard is cool cuz it's like, i have this question and THAT's what i want to know about, THAT's what i care about, and DAMMIT THAT's what i'm gonna do. cool.
i wonder how many lj entries in this wide internet world have that title. whatever, now i'm cool too.
i'm here and alive and not much of an ljer these days but i find myself a victim of downsizing and now am largely bored of unemployment. it was nice for a little while, tho, and i needed to get laid off. that job was killing me, eating my brain and kind of my will to live.
i start grad school in just a little bit. more goddard, because they let me do what i want and i love them for it. i hope when i graduate i can advise for them and continue to be involved with reading and writing the weird papers and whatnot that the place is famous for.
i actually don't have much to say right now. i signed on a little while ago to write about how weird it is to be a member of couple-dom because i was feeling a little tweaked about all that. you become this unit. "partner" is a good word because it is almost a business relationship. or part of it is. obviously there's still all the fucking and the love and it's stellar but as a couple you're also like...can you pick up a 1040 for me when you get yours? math involving bills. renting trucks for moving. scheduling time. we wrote an outline out concerning the agreements of our poly-ness. very specific. no unplanned overnights. coffee is ok but you can't stay for breakfast. etc. i dunno. it's cute, i should put it up. i think we did good. but i like to stay for breakfast. compromise!
