“That’s how dance feels to me, a person who can’t.”
With courage showing up everywhere in this hour, there is also still the plain wrestling with self and thought and how we learn anything through the embodied lives we lead, and one way and another each step of this makes us who we are whenever we finally show up.
#WordsWorthWriting from @updates
https://press.invincible.ink/story-pile-just-be-free-by-big-freedia/
Even when I have no idea what @Talen_Lee is writing about, the way he writes stops me in my thinking to ask new questions.
This is one of the best things I’ve read on the perplexity that confronts us when we hold up our mortality to the universe.
Ok so this from @Talen_Lee via their @updates blog is gorgeous and a romp. It’s about a game, it’s about teenagers, it’s about how we think in action.
(I’m back on my #WordsWorthWriting collection, which is just me thinking about the human efforts of writing, what it is and why we cherish this work so often given away to us as a social gift)
“There is nothing cooler than kids that dig so deeply into something that their passion for the topic becomes palpable. Oddly that vision of today’s youth is too often buried because the checked-out teen is both a lazier and easier vision to prop up.”
This from @jimgroom is an absolute delight.
Sharing these #WordsWorthWriting by @kristiedegaris about place naming and belonging as it connects for me to @Ammienoot thinking about being Scottish.
What is it about the state of the world that sparks these reflections on land language?
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gaelic-the-language-of-the-land/
“Do what you can reach” is just one piece of the good practical advice from @kissane here, on sensemaking in intentionally chaos-causing times.
It’s opened up thoughts on how things are outside the US where we can reach very little except friendship and, on the other hand, travel boycott. As I was already thinking seriously today about whether I will attend something if held in the US, this “do what you can reach” lands right on that thought.
“The process of writing is a matter of making a mark, staking a small claim on the world, seeing how the world looks from the vantage of that claim.”
This is so important, to see writing as process that makes a place (holds a space) for looking out further—not just as what got written.
Thanks @bonstewart for these #WordsWorthWriting I read today.
https://bonstewart.com/belonging/posts/beyond-here-there-be-dragons/
This morning I started my post-university life reading this short post from @kfitz.
Holding space towards a better moment is the detail that’s really struck me. Holding that space is the work of crafting and then conserving readiness, like throwing a pot. It’s Rebecca Solnit’s wise thought that hope is not a door “but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.
Pulling together the threads of this moment in poli-tech as the disgruntled broligarchy fume about woke (still, again, as if), a stellar piece of critical thinking from Audrey Watters.
This is #WordsWorthWriting for me this morning: a brief story of place that nested right in to a thought I’m having since I just read @kissane’s big thread on niche cultures vs big corp tech cultures.
Erin sparked a thought for me about anti-suburbanism. This lovely new blog reflects on moving unthinkingly through non places without noticing that they also have living and tacitly resistant features, and they still carry the marks and memories of what was there before, especially in creeks.
Here it is again, from @monicarettig.
https://falconcreek.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/riparian-riffs-part-i/
The more that AI promises to do the work of reading, summarising and composing for us, the more I’m searching for signs of human writing. That’s what this hashtag is to me: respecting the effort and craft and all the signs of life, the writer’s own handprint.
It’s the moment where you see the palm shape of the potter in the pot, the typo, the irregularity in the quilt. I once saw a boot print in paint on the margin of a huge Pollock canvas and I’ve never forgotten it. I think we can see it in digital writing too.
Today’s #WordsWorthWriting, this lovely piece from @ccohanlon.
“Disappearance is an art and those drawn to a life on the sea are adept at it.”
https://www.tumblr.com/ccohanlon/765701934957166592/unmoored
Quick! Read this by @kin on digital fracking, as ever it’s #WordsWorthWriting:
In 2025 I’m reclaiming my attention from the hamster wheel world of work multitasking, and off work tiredscrolling, and AI of any stripe. I’m re-learning how to read #WordsWorthWriting.
Starting the year with this short piece from the always excellent @kin.
“I predict that in the 2100s we’ll be working hard to extract AI from our daily lives in similar ways to how we are working to extract automobiles from our daily lives today.”
