Writing, writing, and you guessed it…

Books and stories on the boil 📚 A sci-fi romance novella 📕 A contemporary romance novelette 📗 That’s it! I’ve vowed not to put more on my plate until it’s clear.

Staying active

Coasting along in weekly pole classes and near-daily walks. Just strolling for 15–20 minutes each day has been so good for my mind. I wish the air was cleaner where I live, but really it’s pretty decent as far as metropolitan environments go.

Maintenance and care

After getting one shoe repaired, the other began to fall apart. My dad recently asked why bother getting stuff repaired when it costs about the same to replace it, which is a fair question when you’re only considering the money side of things. I just hate the idea of a perfectly good pair of shoes sitting in landfill when all they need is a spot of glue.

Now that I’ve seen the job quality provided by my local shoe repair guy, I know what to aim for in an at-home job, so it should no longer cost a tidy sum to keep my bad boys going another few years. Plus, that repair shop is full to bursting and the owner seems busy AF everytime I visit. I’m betting he’s everybody’s shoe guy and would appreciate one less task on his to-do list!

Terra serenus

Our blueberry bush came back to life! Looks like it just hates Makuru, despite getting oodles of rain. My lovely neighbour furnished me with loads of coffee grounds from her kitchen AND some lemons from her friend’s tree. They’re the comically large lemons you get around here, the “you'll do” of local citrus. They’re the vendor trash of lemons, but I kinda love them because of it. Silly, dopey things that are still useful and delicious, the kind of lemons you only get from friends 🍋

In return, I have furnished her with three big slabs of dichondra for her garden bed. I hope we keep our fun little swapsie relationship going for many years to come 💞

Oh, and I’ve joined a community garden and subscribed to a wetland conservation group. I don’t know if this will go anywhere. I’m really just looking for connections to locations and headspaces where I can steep in thought. There’s no shortage of new people to meet, but right now I’m craving spots to connect the dots on ideas. We acquire so much information in pieces, and are afforded so little time to integrate them into wholer, fuller concepts. Peaceful nature time seems to help.

Recent readings/watchings/playings

• Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Exordia by Seth Dickinson
• Bunnies by Justin Cawthorne
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• The Naked Gun (2025)
• Wind in the Willows (1983)
• FarmRPG

Misc learnings

Literary techniques.
Cosmology & Big History.
Maintenance mindset.
Linguistics.
Tulpamancy & thought forms.
The Artist’s Way.
Attachment theory.
History of economics.
Digital copyright (ebooks).
The Highland Clearance.
Cultural immune systems.
Book cover design.

Current obsessions

Handmaking gifts.
Ships & shipping.
Embroidery.
Sunday roast.
Book cover design.
Vampire lore.
Slow productivity.

Pls no

The genocide in Palestine.
Technopoly.
Culture of uncare.
Hyperactive Hive Mind.
Hyperconsumption.
Bullshit jobs.
Big Social.

This "Now" update was inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement and Kohan Ikin’s Now page.