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i was just talking about him with a friend (who's not on this app, boo!) on the phone this morning & turned out it's his birthday!

the rare moment "out of nowhere" when seemingly random things add up, build toward something not only coherent but also brilliant & life-generating, just *click* & fall into place; you see the future, present, past collide

the older i get the more i understand why the prophets & saints & sages of yore used to retreat to caves

you're right 🙏🏼 there are still other pillars to rely on too, right?

omg from having tai yin + tian yi this year to this 😭 is now the last 'smooth' month for the herd...

glamorous & playful

saturn return will begin during my saturn profection year, then through another saturn profection year, then the profection of the saturn house itself! this month's lunar return has saturn rising too 🪐 #astrology can be intense

need a date to see goodbye, dragon inn (2003) next month at to keep me from falling asleep

haven't logged in here for almost a year—so much has happened since! e.g published some poetry & criticism (print & online), edited 2 books, met a lot of friends (old & new), been plotting & scheming (alone & with co-conspirators), even considered picking up my TCM training again... next year?

no special star for sheep next year? 🙂

lol ok let me know what you think of it!

whatever katharine hepburn felt in david lean's summertime (1955) except that i didn't meet a hot stranger during my trip

omg i'm also in here (two poems) 🙋🏻‍♀️

"She is the keeper of our redemption unsung." harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/for-bisan-...

this is exciting!

your taste! 🖤

there should be something from yusef komunyakaa's warhorses, right... archive.org/details/warh...

yes please i would appreciate that very much!

is a streaming option available / will this be recorded? 🙏🏼

the loneliness of the mother tongue vis-a-vis the loneliness of the third language

An Open Letter in Support of Adania Shibli’s ‘Minor Detail’ and Palestinian Literary Voices These recent, terrible days have seen — in several European countries — a closing-off and shutting down of cultural events that bring forward Palestinian art, voices, and stories. There…

arablit.org/2023/10/16/a... from the river to the sea 🇵🇸

delighted to find out that anita loos wrote a script for one of the THIN MAN films !!

i have done all of these irl so i need new roles (i'll make them up)

can wood x metal mean literal head 甲 getting chopped? 😭 (re: his brain implant startup trial)

can't say you've moved on till you stop reading astrology for two

to hell with "dating pool" i want "suitors' venue" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svayamv... "The bride wishing to marry would select an auspicious time and venue and then broadcast her intentions... On the appointed day, suitors would gather at the venue and declare their qualifications."

crush is a social catalyst more than an invention of the mind, i'd figured

been here for several weeks (months?!) yet still "nothing"; perhaps it's the lack of usual gunpowder for firing [online thoughts] i.e Crush/ing lol