Notices by jmz🦀(CARCIFIED) (paralithode@mastodon.social), page 2

Goodnight friends! After an afternoon of slowly encroaching shade the unbroken streak of ferocious brightness broke this evening. I couldn't quite believe it until I stood on the still-hot wet concrete pavement in the blue dark, my head damp & full of the thick sandy smell of petrichor.

I was p. knocked out most of today, having pushed my physical limits the past few days. It feels at least unusually temporary, like real exhaustion.

May we grow in understanding of ourselves & each other today!

Goodnight friends! There was a comfortable breeze on & off today, & the first sight in days of significant clouds, looking determined & ponderous. Perhaps a break in the weather ahead? A sticky, glossy beetle-black pool of melted pitch has formed around the base of the telephone pole.

Moving onward w/exercise & research today—my brain+my muscles both reaching a half-pleasurable ambiguous point of struggle, where challenges start.

May we empower each other to act justly & compassionately today!

Goodnight friends! More heat today, & more slow-baked lethargy, the air largely still. Cats seeking refuge under cars, birds hushed, pedestrians doing their best to slide from the shadow of one tree to the next. Only crickets, dry brown in the brown dry grass, seem excited.

I had a few bursts of activity though, most of if a little aimless—surging forward a little with light exercises, more NVC research, drawing that isn't really for anything.

May we celebrate the humble acts of living today!

Goodnight friends! No signs of the heat letting up. Today we finally felt we had to prop open all the doors in the house & let the breeze roll through—the scents of dry earth, baking tarmac, shrivelling flowers & charcoal infusing every room.

Getting into research today, after unusually loud social interludes, I feel a little buzzy w/potential energy...being able to participate, feeling bigger & better possible ideas spreading roots.

May we find people we belong w/& places to call home today!

Thank you kind people for following me—I'd just like to bring to your attention that this account is currently in retirement, please come join me over at @paralithode for new posts 🦀💕

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Goodnight friends! Another long, exhausting day full of delight, sensation, & almost punishing heat. A dappled sky of sinuous, heiroglyphic clouds was a welcome change after days of stark endless blue.

Luckily, while we were about for several hrs we were indoors, at a zine event. I'm beginning to feel a small unaccustomed sense of belonging. I'm imagining something I couldn't for years; how I could become a tiny part of a community.

May we find courage & respite in nurturing each other today!

“On June 23, a historic LGBTQ pride march was held in Homer, Alaska...It was organized by activists from Homer in conjunction with Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic (KBFPC), a non-profit organization that provides reproductive healthcare and education to the surrounding community regardless of income.”

https://www.liberationnews.org/homer-ak-holds-historic-lgbtq-pride-march/

Hey, hi! for various reasons–discomfort w/Eugen as an admin, desire to actually play in the wilds of the federated space I'm nominally part of, wanting to try those sweet glitch-branch features, &c–after having been on mastosoc since November '16 I've decided to try out moving instances! I don't know if this will be my forever home, (there are many excellent instances I may end up taking a look at) but for now I'll be hanging out my shingle @paralithode & seeing how it goes! please come say hi💖

Goodnight friends! The wavering air is rich w/sensation. Flowers dessicated in the heat—scents clarified, dense & syrupy. Electric poles bled slow runnels of gooey pitch. What seemed so much like tiny apples continued to redden w/o swelling until they turned glossy near-black, showing themselves as wild cherries, tart & sweet.

Creative self still dissolute & muffled, but slowly regaining myself!

May we choose solidarity & mutual aid w/our fellow people pushed to the margins today, & every day!

Goodnight friends! Incandescent again, a day that felt like endless listless days of childhood summer holidays, & all the birds seemed hushed by the hot air.

I've felt stuck the past few days—someone tried to scam me on illustration licensing. Weasel tactics got their teeth in me, got me angry & ashamed. Childhood leaves barbs in you like velcro; feeling deep old stuff reopened by trivial new interactions. Re-releasing that anger is the hard work of the next few days.

May we find peace today!

Goodnight friends! A browbeaing blaze of glory today. The heat was crystaline, hard & heavy, impossible to escape. Even well after dark the air has a simmering tarmac & dry stone smell of warmth.

I couldn't resist the lure of the full green furnace of june, so we took a walk around the pool. We saw herons—slender & blue-backed above the water, executioners w/modelling side-gigs.

May we see the unique value that we can give to the world today, & believe in our ability to fulfil that potential!

Star Trip has updated!

We've got some Emotions over here.

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Any advice for someone on a newly formed "diversity council" which includes my boss who is so anti-diversity but believes she is awesome? I feel really stuck. I was personally invited to be part of this group but if my boss is there, I'm not sure I can take part. But I have looked forward to this for the last year and now I'm sad. Thoughts?

Goodnight friends! Summer heat was in full sweltering force. Once succulent, smooth leaves wrinkled & blanched, wild grasses tinged gold. The tiny apples haven't grown at all—but are now a deep, hypnotically lustrous cherry red.

I'm in a slightly strange moment of healing today, where I feel basically recovered but destabilised in some fundamental way, like I'm not quite ready to establish a pattern.

May we find delight in life's slow & meandering paths today, & find rewards in the unexpected!

Goodnight friends! More cloud today than yesterday's crystalline blue, spread thinly across the sky in a uniform translucent gauze, softening the piercing sunlight to something warm but a little melancholic.

Today we went on an unusual outing—to see a community adaptation of the opera Carmen. The biggest impression I came away w/is simple baffled awe at the power of the human voice & the way the singers filled the space+our bodies w/sound.

May we explore new frontiers of learning & love today!

Goodnight friends! A return to the finest form of summer, just as the earth reached the peak of daylight from my european vantage & began its fall into darkness. Near-seamless blue sky scattered w/lost needles of contrail, everything kissed by warmth.

My head is a little clearer again today, & I felt the confidence at last to go fully mobile again. How familiar, & how changed already the trees are!

May we find the compassion & wisdom to recognise the right, & the courage to stand for it today!

Goodnight friends! A little more of a break in the weather, no settled gloom or damp today. Instead moving skies & sun & bluster that made the bright skies exhilarating rather than soporific.

I took advantage of my growing light-tolerance & a more bearable steady, background whine of nausea to get active & outside more—I hung the laundry up outside to whirl & writhe around in the busy air. The special, nurturing joy of housework!

May we find solidarity with those we trust & who trust us today!

having a quick play with the glitch.soc toys, contemplating making a new home over here on pv :'3 thanks for having me!! xoxo

Hey, hi! for various reasons–discomfort w/Eugen as an admin, desire to actually play in the wilds of the federated space I'm nominally part of, wanting to try those sweet glitch-branch features, &c–after having been on mastosoc since November '16 I've decided to try out moving instances! I don't know if this will be my forever home, (there are many excellent instances I may end up taking a look at) but for now I'll be hanging out my shingle @paralithode & seeing how it goes! please come say hi💖