Re: the last repost - it’s so important to find moments of stillness right now so we don’t burn out, which is exactly what this admin wants. I play with clay and I cook. What are your strategies?
08.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@swampyw1tch.bsky.social
Arts admin, writer, potter in Chicago
Re: the last repost - it’s so important to find moments of stillness right now so we don’t burn out, which is exactly what this admin wants. I play with clay and I cook. What are your strategies?
08.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
08.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 591 🔁 238 💬 13 📌 33Two pieces of leather hard pottery in a studio. A small bowl and a mug with a rounded belly and chunky foot.
The cylinder above eventually became the mug on the right here :)
08.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A cylinder thrown on the potters wheel with mud splashed on the surface
Grateful to have (re)discovered wheel throwing in my thirties. It’s one of the only things that keeps me in the moment
08.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Showing up to work day after day amidst all of this requires that I shut off (or seriously limit access to) the deepest emotional part of myself. And that is feeling increasingly untenable and even dangerous to do in this climate.
06.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HAVE YOU SEEN ICE? ¿HAS VISTO A ICE? We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago who are collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and traffic stops conducted by federal agents. Share video: tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists Contact us: chicagojournalists@protonmail.com We won’t share video publicly without your permission. Share video / Enviar video Somos un grupo de periodistas de distintos medios en Chicago recopilando videos relacionados con el uso de la fuerza, detenciones, controles de tráfico y retenes por agentes federales en Chicago. Enviar video: tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists Contacto: chicagojournalists@protonmail.com No compartiremos video públicamente sin permiso.
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With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support.
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Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com
The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com
WBEZ: @wbez.org
RIP Jane Goodall 💔
A while back I wrote this piece for @bwdr.bsky.social on Brett Morgen’s documentary, Jane, composed of gorgeous 16mm footage shot by Hugo Van Lawick.
It’s a beautiful tribute to her and her work, and a dream to watch.
Four vessels lined up on a table in a studio.
Migrated here after a long break from Twitter/x. Hello! I write sometimes and hope to do more of that soon. I also make ceramics
28.09.2025 16:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0