What I’m up to now

Writing, writing, and you guessed it…

Books and stories on the boil 📚 A sci-fi romance novella 📕 A contemporary romance novelette 📗 That’s it! I’ve vowed not to put more on my plate until it’s clear.

Staying active

Coasting along in weekly pole classes and near-daily walks. Just strolling for 15–20 minutes each day has been so good for my mind. I wish the air was cleaner where I live, but really it’s pretty decent as far as metropolitan environments go.

After 10+ years of trusty service, my walking shoes are starting to complain, and I’ve just had my first ever experience of taking shoes to a shop to get repaired.

Maintenance and care

Recently, I read The Maintainers Study Guide and can no longer unsee what falls through the cracks when we focus solely on innovation. Developing a “maintenance mindset” doesn’t sound at all boring or arduous – in fact, it sounds rather fun if you’re a curious person or engineeringly inclined. Apparently step one is to slow down and enjoy things, which sounds pretty bloody awesome to me.

Terra serenus

Our blueberry bush is dying, but also flowering and fruiting. I learned not long ago that blueberries are part of the azalea family, and demonstrate a very on-brand azalea fussiness. My guess is that it loves the rain we’re getting, and I must now swap out the veggie fertiliser for azalea fertiliser 🙄 We are overrun with dichondra now.

Recent readings/watchings/playings

Misc learnings

Cosmology & Big History.
Maintenance mindset.
Linguistics.
Tulpamancy & thought forms.
The Artist’s Way.
Attachment theory.
History of economics.
Digital copyright (ebooks).
The Highland Clearance.
Cultural immune systems.
Book cover design.
Fiction archetypes.

Current obsessions

Handmaking gifts.
Ships & shipping.
Embroidery.
Sunday roast.
Book cover design.
Vampire lore.
Slow productivity.

Pls no

The genocide in Palestine.
Technopoly.
Culture of uncare.
Hyperactive Hive Mind.
Hyperconsumption.
Bullshit jobs.
Big Social.

This "Now" update was inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement and Kohan Ikin’s Now page.