On Being Krista Tippett interviews Craig Minowa of Cloud Cult. Please go listen.
the Other Sides of things
this is First Iris a Cloth that Patricia Spangler made that i bought from her. It's ordinarily on the wall, just to my right as i sit at this screen. I look at it every day. It is maybe the most extraordinary cloth i know.
i took it down today and ran my finger over it, feeling how it knows Things. How it knows what it is to Rise from a tuber that might sit dormant for so so so long. So so so long and yet Rise.
"The great human rights activist and Irish nationalist Roger Casement investigated horrific torture and genocide in South Africa's Putamayo rainforest a century ago and campaigned to end it. While on this somber task, his journal reveals, he found time to admire handsome local men and to chase brilliantly colored local butterflies. Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
Rebecca Solnit
