my week in objects (mostly).
a dress, a seedling, and hardware-store brushes.
1. this dream dress.
{for arriving with hours to spare and for being so perfect.}
2. these bundles of cord.
{and all the party goers who gave crafts a chance.}
3. this can.
{filled with the perfect close-of-workday drink.}
4. this seedling.
{and the other one. happy parents’ day to us.}
5. these brushes.
{mostly used last week, but the thrill of seeing the still-up posters has not worn off.}
other things:
we no longer see the effect of the consumption that we still enjoy.
it’s not nihilism. it’s activism.
other things about making things:
a thinly-veiled anti-capitalist manifesto…
I continue to love your newsletter, books, recommendations - just everything. Continue to hate all of the one-sided Palestinian links. I wish we could recognize that the war is awful, but it also takes two to tango. Hamas also has the power to end this b*s*t. I hope the Solidarity meeting included the mothers in Israel and the US who are still held captive by Hamas, and the mothers whose babies were brutally murdered, sometimes burned alive tied together with other family members, with the intention of getting Israel to react by invading Gaza. Well, probably not.
The first link you shared (from the Atlantic)— some of the numbers on “fast consumption” are positively terrifying (nearly half of Temu’s American revenue comes from people making more than $130k?!). Also, congratulations on publication week!