Well it was another crap week of work with my two crap projects lingering long past the time when they should have been out of my life. Ten days and counting. Then on to the next thing. Which will be only one thing, not two. Lesson learned.
Reading
I am nearly finished with Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, which is rewiring my brain as have few books in recent memory. This is a book everyone should read, especially if they are in a position where they need to make any decisions at all which affect anyone, including themselves. I wish I had read this when it came out, 18 years ago.
Writing
For all its chaos and frustration, this was a pretty good week for writing. I put down a couple more drafts for poems for the time capsule project, and should have the best one completed by the deadline in two weeks. If not, well, I still have some new poems to play with.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Fae, Mutants
Setting: Library
Genre: Romance
Listening
Luna, “Season of the Witch,” from the soundtrack to I Shot Andy Warhol.
Interesting Links
- “On Falling Out of Love With Moscow” (Svetlana Satchkova, LitHub)
- “Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man” (Leah Schnelbach, Reactor)
- “The Structural Incentives Of Western Capitalism Make Competing With China Impossible” (Ian Welsh)