#20: Summer links
Plus sun phases, mortality, women and envy
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Reading and listening
This interview with Courtney Love: “I have a cat named Cowboy who hasn’t talked to me in two years, but we’re cool”. Every paragraph is golden.
This interview with adrienne maree brown and Prentis Hemphill: “I thought I was a moon person, but I was just in a moon phase of my life. I was all about reflecting the light of others and getting pulled into the tides of others. And now, I’m in a sun phase of my life where I’m like, “There’s something in me that is shining, and it’s not a reflection of something else; it’s from inside.””
A very funny exploration of the metaverse.
Quitting caffeine and neurodivergence: “Caffeine exists to help us ignore the fact we’re expected to do the impossible”. I quit caffeine 18 months ago and it was a wild, wild ride.
Women and envy. Why is it so difficult to own our wanting?
This powerful conversation with Andrea Gibson about illness, mortality and love.
Most read from the last edition:
Watching
Halt and Catch Fire. About five episodes in, you will begin to care very much about a bunch of misfits building a PC in Dallas in 1983.
Silo. The last humans on earth live in a vast, cylindrical underground bunker full of mysteries. Beautiful set design and propulsive plot twists.
Platonic. A sweet and perfect buddy sitcom.
Arnold. Great archive footage of the bodybuilding cultures of Europe and the US in the 60s and 70s.
Writing
An invitation for local government to invest in municipal imagination, as part of my work with Moral Imaginations. Imagination is a core skill of 21st century public service.
A meta-piece, Two years of This Might Resonate, for newsletter nerds only. Reflecting on the assumptions I started this newsetter with — what turned out to be true, what turned out to be different?
Still vibing with…
Tina Turner and Cher duetting in the campest way possible.
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