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Links—Ways of Moving

Here are some posts that treat time, thought, and purpose in non-linear ways. In them I see a world of resilience, beauty, thoughtfulness, and kinship.

Farhad Guerrero’s interview with Dr. Jennifer Kramer, “Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun” on The Hour Is Blue

I was struck by the different ways relationships intertwine and by the resilience that comes from that: continuity between ancestral and current generations; the mutual benefits to the Nuxalk people and the museum; the sense “of wealth as connection and knowledge, to the land, to your past, and also to your future.” This kind of interweaving is not a goal to achieve but something to cultivate.

this edge of the earth” at To Ground

This lyrical photo essay moves two directions, out and back, in the way tide moves out and back, with a sweep of small, spreading waves all alive with wild beings. It’s gorgeous.

Kazakhstan—Notes from a Country I Knew Nothing About” by Shubham

This travel log loosely follows chronological order but with many passages that take place outside time, where impressions connect across the here and elsewhere, and the now, then, and someday. Wisdom bubbles up along the way.1 A long, “pour a cup of coffee and put your feet up” read.

Angry Bunny Man’s home page and “Accessibility in the Here and Now

ABM writes about barriers that prevent people from moving freely through digital spaces. His writing is very goal-oriented, as he fights another goal-driven force: workplace efficiency, which steamrolls over people with disabilities, whose needs are not efficiently one-size-fits-all. He fights fire with fire to make the case that should not be radical but is, for seeing people as fully human.

On Access Trauma” by Robert Kingett at Sightless Scribbles

Kingett describes the relentless obstacles that can face people with disabilities and how those obstacles grind people down with their constant draws on physical, emotional, and cognitive resources. The brick walls of inaccessible materials, spaces, and assumptions thwart basic agency to move in any direction but backwards.

Rabbit Reading Are Cool’s Day 48 reading summaries

I love the way RRAC’s posts gather and muse, gather and muse. In this one I appreciate the reminder of Keats’s “negative capability”—the capacity to endure uncertainty without rushing to closure—and this line by John Ashbery: “Take care of values. The rest is shopping…”—a further reminder to me of the roots of my own way to engage with the world.

  1. Choosing a destination by process of elimination is the opposite of goal-directed, and you are almost guaranteed to be happy to not get what you didn’t want. Brilliant.

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