2026 Gender Survey - if you or someone you know aren’t always in only one box of the gender binary, there’s an anonymous survey you might like to take. 2025’s results are here, if you maybe just want to feel less alone.
https://eliseesther.bandcamp.com/album/prelude-to-ocean - harp and piano and some occasional bits of violin. Soothing acoustic ambient.
https://knitty.com/ISSUEff26/FEATff26WK/FEATff26WK.php Brioche knitting is apparently not the very devil if you’re working each row in 2 colors? Or at least according to people who know how to do it. I may need to practice this skill.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2026/06/01/yanss-340-how-to-think-sideways-like-a-chess-player-so-you-can-make-better-choices-by-considering-fewer-options/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0FKzeuVVs - Yoga Nidra guided meditation
https://the10lenses.com/ common lenses through which race and culture may be viewed. I don't necessarily think these are very well put, but it is one set of ways to look at all the different ways people look at race and race relations.
In other news I have changed my journal colors to dark pine greens, teals, and minty aquas. It’s very restful for my eyes, which need to rest after we spent 4.5 hours outside today mowing the lawn some more. It is fire season so having foot-tall dry grass near the house just sounds like a bad plan.
https://eliseesther.bandcamp.com/album/prelude-to-ocean - harp and piano and some occasional bits of violin. Soothing acoustic ambient.
https://knitty.com/ISSUEff26/FEATff26WK/FEATff26WK.php Brioche knitting is apparently not the very devil if you’re working each row in 2 colors? Or at least according to people who know how to do it. I may need to practice this skill.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2026/06/01/yanss-340-how-to-think-sideways-like-a-chess-player-so-you-can-make-better-choices-by-considering-fewer-options/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0FKzeuVVs - Yoga Nidra guided meditation
https://the10lenses.com/ common lenses through which race and culture may be viewed. I don't necessarily think these are very well put, but it is one set of ways to look at all the different ways people look at race and race relations.
In other news I have changed my journal colors to dark pine greens, teals, and minty aquas. It’s very restful for my eyes, which need to rest after we spent 4.5 hours outside today mowing the lawn some more. It is fire season so having foot-tall dry grass near the house just sounds like a bad plan.