A new home for good enough
Wherein I blame my impulsivity on being a Gemini
You may have noticed this email is coming to you from Substack instead of Buttondown. I realized that while I love what Buttondown is doing, I felt lonely! Substack is where the majority of my favorite writers and thinkers are publishing and I want to have one place to go — rather than bouncing between Buttondown to publish and Substack to read. If I dare switch again, you have full permission to mock me and my impulsivity.
Reading - Deborah Levy interviewed in Marfa Journal (which is sold out but I snagged a second-hand copy on Noihsaf Bazaar.) I think Deborah Levy is the only person in the world my husband might need to be concerned about. I can’t imagine what she’d ask me that I wouldn’t do.
“What is the point of love if it isn't a bit scary. In my books, I usually tend to write from a position of love because it's so much more risky than hate. If you just write about two characters who hate each other, there's nothing to rehearse. I mean, where are you going to go in that story?” — Deborah Levy in Marfa #18
Also, I’m not even two chapters into Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfhemi O Táíwò and it’s giving me language that I needed.
“As climate impacts accelerate, we can expect them to perversely distribute the costs and burdens of climate change, disproportionately impacting those who have been rendered most vulnerable given the accumulated weight of history.” —Olúfhemi O Táíwò in Reconsidering Reparations (Pg 11)
Writing - Words that will eventually see the light of day.
Cooking - My son turned nine last week and he wanted us to bake his cake from scratch which was a lot of fun. I haven’t made a full-on layer cake in years so we kept it simple: Vanilla cake with buttercream. In the middle, lemon curd and cool whip (because that was where my effort stopped.) Leftover lemon curd is about the greatest thing to have in the fridge, too.
WOOOOO
Welcome to the substack party!