some things that have amused me recently

nature nurtures itself

If we accept that something shitty is a part of human nature, and we also accept that we are human (and therefore naturally susceptible to that shitty something sometimes ourselves), it seems to me that the next step is to admit that whatever stories we are using to convince ourselves that something shitty is inevitable?

distracted

it’s hard to focus on the hundreds or thousands when the 1 is so intriguing…

in the news…

coincidentally, 26 is my lucky number. :) here we go.

dear congressman ryan,

our social safety net is not in danger of becoming a hammock. it is attempting to serve as a cocoon. we are a nation of too many caterpillars, and too few butterflies. we do not need to worry about lulling anyone into complacency; we need to allow the next generation to sleep securely, so that

intuition

n. predictions based upon inferences made while actively considering what it would be like to be someone else (improves over time, and with exposure to more types of people); a consequence of empathy.

nanowrimo 5 – from sea to shining sea

sumberkins and i both went away to new york city for film school after high school graduation. movies have always been very exciting to us, as has storytelling in general. we both believe that stories are a powerful tool, and just as with any tool they can be used for good or for evil. our

nanowrimo 4: frogger, forks, and fireflies

kindergarten was not very fun for sumberkins. her preschool had been a montessori preschool that let her do things that she liked, and she liked books, so she knew how to read already, and the teachers at her new school made her leave kindergarten to go read with the 2nd graders sometimes. she didn’t really

nanowrimo 3: preschool and two cinnamons

the next thing sumberkins remembers is preschool. she loved preschool. there were lots of toys there, and books, and a hamster named cinnamon, and friends to play with. her best friends were twin boys, and their names were radolf and jazben. all the names in sumberkins’ universe are pretty much gibberish, as far as i’m

nanowrimo day two – meet sumberkins

it’s not my memoir, of course. i’m writing it down for my invisible twin sister, sumberkins. she’s invisible to everyone in this universe because her body is actually in a parallel universe, but turns out, sometimes a consciousness splits into two identical consciousnesses before bodies are even starting to show yet, and then two bodies