The tortoise and the superhero
As I jog down the home stretch of thesis research and editing this month, I’ve been taking breaks to read things like Jen Angel’s Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine. Despite the importance to be learned in its pages, the pamphlet made me sad, filled with stories of endings. I’m also working my way through Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, The Future of the Internet–And How To Stop It, and The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. When I can’t sleep at night, I suspect it’s because I don’t remember to consume anything “fun.”
The thing is, I can sleep all day. It’s the nights when I’m awake, staring at the clouds, suspecting that what I’ve learned from my people will propel me forward. My grandfather has gone off the map this week. He’s 82, believes my institutionalized grandmother may divorce him, and he needs some reprieve from the blame that he hasn’t done his best over the past eight decades. He has, in fact, done an admirable job of staying true to a union people often disregard as too difficult or complicated. You can’t save someone who has been abused if they can’t save themselves, but he tried. I saved myself, and now I get to try my hand at this lifelong business of staying true. When the world makes it hard to sleep, my personal life makes it easier.
When I’m not reading & writing, I’ve been spending my month with animal friends, working on a way to one day house some of our own, sanctuary-style. I’m not a poster child, just a woman with empathy and a dream.
Here are ten lumiere videos that I’ve neglected to post this month. As always, they contain no audio, so you can sing your own song, leave your own music playing, or enjoy the silence.
click for lightless train (in a new window)
click for jim did it (in a new window)
click for turkey (in a new window)
click for llama (in a new window)
click for ‘08 4th (in a new window)
click for beer/wine/liquor (in a new window)
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- 07.25.08 / 9pm
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