Hey y’all,
Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:
I spent an afternoon scanning diaries from 2023 for a speaking gig and I came across all the spring entries from when we had owlets in our backyard owl box. I was obsessed with those owlets and I couldn’t help comparing them to the two young humans we had in our house, except the owlets developed at super speed: They hatched in April, and by this time of May they had already fledged. (To fledge is to leave the nest after you get your feathers.) Our youngest is fledging from elementary school later this month. Counting down the drop-offs we have left. Fledging season.
I’m quickly coming up out of “The Gulp!” I spent the past week and a half recording podcasts. I was a little nervous, but it was a huge relief to finally get to hear what people who didn’t work on Don’t Call It Art think about the book.
Oh, also: I got to hold an actual copy of the book for the first time! It’s truly the most beautiful object I’ve ever published. Crazy proud of it, though I do have a confession:
I shared two brand-new issues of the Don’t Call It Art Deleted Zines — #6 and #7 are called “Not-knowing” and “Complexity.” You can get the first 5 issues in the pre-order goodies, and in case you missed it, I shared issue #8 last week: “Mothers!” (Here is a very nice writeup of that issue.) Issue #9 is, you guessed it, “Fathers!” It’ll drop before Father’s Day.
