Friends: my time away was less relaxing than I had hoped. That wind-up toy that sits on my shoulder and says “shouldn’t you be working?” turned out to be fully demon-possessed. It insisted on tagging along and made a big scene.
Also, the moment I went on vacation, things on my desk did fall apart, then the desk collapsed into a pile of dry-rot and the whole thing dropped into a sinkhole (figuratively). So it’s time to find a new place to work (literally).
Ask me about it sometime, and I’ll tell you the story.
I did, however, go swimming.
It hasn’t been totally relaxing, but the past few weeks have sharpened the questions I’ve been thinking about. Here are a few things I’m planning on exploring over the next few months:
Work, its discontents and alternatives.
Hope, as the antidote to anxiety (at a personal and social level) and as a particular relationship to the future.
New worlds, already existing in this one, and how to find them.
Strategy, and the relationship between struggling against unjust systems and building alternatives.
I’ve been away from the newsletter longer than I meant (the dry-rot sinkhole was a doozy), but now that I’m back, I have many things to share.
Meet me back here next week— There is a lot about pirates that I want to tell you.
