Aki Gibbons

An extraordinary ballet of life and death.

Taos Earthships: What It’s Like to Visit — and Spend the Night Off the Grid 🛖 - The New Mexico Travel Guy Curious about Taos Earthships? Here’s what it’s like to visit Taos, take the tour, and spend the night off-grid — quirks, comfort, and sustainability included.

Looking into Earthships and “biotecture”, I came across this article on touring and sleeping in one in Taos.

newmexicotravelguy.com/taos-earthsh...

Honestly, the pieces are coming together for a series of horrible events - the AI crash combined with a government shutdown and millions of poor and starving people encountering a racist invading federal force.

I think we are but a hair’s breadth away from a vicious civil war.

The reason I started Substack.

I’m still waiting for this to happen…

Thanks Michael 💕

“Tech is a speculative industry, money is made not on the product working, being any good or, in many cases, even making it to market. The money is made by making us believe.”

“My friends grew up dreaming of Farrah Fawcett – I dreamt of the Brontë sisters and Mary Shelley.”

- Guillermo del Toro

nothing left
of the war

except forest

So much has happened, a constant flux and pivoting with no solo time to muse and think.
A lot of life and work and people stuff and very little creative stuff.

And now here we are deep into October.

These sacred tattoos were banned in Okinawa. A new generation is bringing them back. Once worn by nearly every Ryukyuan woman, these intricate hand tattoos were outlawed for over a century.

Written by Haley Harrison.

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A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.

An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I ori…

In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I shared the morning of my fortieth birthday. They are now a book of cards:

Thank you, same!

Handcrafted Yomitan pottery, just right for a cappuccino or a small bouquet

Summer people

Beautiful, soul-stirring things are more precious than ever. Flowers on the table and a perennial friendship, handwritten notes and light through leaves. A well tended garden. Innocent laughter of children playing outside. Getting lost in an ancient town. And always the ocean.

the size of the world decreasing

rubbing my palms
to shed stiff new jeans

a garter snake
floating over grass
a line
slipping between
lines

fenced in fenced out
round and round

#poetry #micropoetry

From the temple to the garden Participating in the birth of a new media system

Maybe I’ll explore putting stories on Substack.

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Over five years on, this little beauty is still being borrowed in libraries, for which authors get paid (which is how I know!). You can also get a fresh copy from @saltpublishing.com here
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Frida Kahlo synchronicities

It made me realize I need to seek out more live performances.

Piedmont Piano Co. signage in Oakland

Row of grand pianos in Piedmont Piano co.

Open grand piano in Piedmont Piano co. Sunlight streaming into the showroom

Moon detail of ornate antique grandfather clock in Piedmont Piano co.

Attended an astounding performance by jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano Co. This piece: Hutcheonite. Hearing it played solo on a handcrafted Yamaha grand a few feet away from me was mind blowing. youtu.be/wJNPOw0q5TU?...

Fucking Trump and his clan of losers. So mortified for Zelensky.

Weekend goals: The Brutalist and The Substance

… choose 20 paintings/prints that have stayed with you or influenced you - one painting per day for 20 days , in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just paintings/prints.
#blueskyart #art #painting …

Day 10

Nathaniel Russell

choppy sea
I am the waves
and the boat

#senryu

I can’t wait to go back.