in my 🌏 and on my 🧠
my weekly (ish) substack where i share a few things that moved me or made me think, feel & smile this week [12/30/24]
💭 the works & words of alma thomas
“I’ve never bothered painting the ugly things in life. People struggling, having difficulty. You meet that when you go out, and then you have to come back and see the same thing hanging on the wall. No. I wanted something beautiful that you could sit down and look at. And then, the paintings change you.”
–– Alma Thomas
💭 palm springs oks $5.9 million in reparations for black and latino families whose homes the city burned
💭 this quote from kurt vonnegut
“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
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💭 have you ever wondered what a coyote chase sounds like?
this week i discovered an online library of sounds from national parks. i thought it was so cool, and i spent a lot of time listening to wild shit. enjoy!
explore here + enjoy perusing these additional sound libraries:
Sounds of the Parks by the Colorado State University Listening Lab.
Yellowstone Audio postcards — short stories about soundscapes unique to Yellowstone's ecology.
💭 this letter, entitled "we are the earth," was written by indigenous activists as part of the exhibition titled, our time on earth.
