Weeknotes 2025-10
Happenings
I called my representative and senators.1 5 Calls made it all so much easier; they provide phone numbers and scripts.
Visited the parents, where we shared a meal and helped pay their bills. My dad gave us a tour of his garden, filled with hanging CDs and fruit-shaped sticky insect traps. We stopped by their (very large) avocado tree. Avocados are in season, and we came home with six.
Painted my nails bright red & it instantly lifted my mood. 💅
Costcooo! Once again, our fridge and pantry are full. I have ambitions of eating more oats.
Reading, watching
Make Art or Die Trying by Stuart Semple
Jon Stewart & Maria Ressa on the U.S.’s Authoritarian Slide — I did not know who Maria Ressa was before this interview, and now I am a fan.
Thinking
Letter from Birmingham Jail (emphasis by me):
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.