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March was really all about the music. Five shows — five perfect evenings — with coffee dates, zine stuff, bike rides, and quiet moments spent curled up in my reading nook tucked in between all that beautiful noise. Our traditional midwest winter hibernation has thawed and it is time to get out and get loud again. Time for socializing and song and dance. It started with grimy old school punk in the sweaty attic of miniBar. Madman and The Itch and TV Preacher, who paced and glowered and bounced, like Dead Kennedys meets Stiff Little Fingers. Someone in the crowd shouted out that they dreamed one night that they were playing […]

“Springtime” by Leatherface is stuck in my head, the lyrics “everything is new and everything is clean/And everything is free and there were still so many things to see” spinning around my mind like a Ferris wheel or an ouroboros, no start, no end, on repeat; the fast, gruff beauty of the song like rust and graffiti on a train car, a whistful energy.

Hi kittens! March is off and running — and it’s already halfway over! I started writing this blog at the end of February, and it’s taken me 2 entire weeks to finish it, but that’s okay. The march of time is both persistent and imaginary! Here are some things that brought me joy last month…

It occurred to me the other day that one of the reasons that I don’t blog more is because I lack essay-ful things to say. I am pondering without a thesis. Most of the blogs I read now are Substack newsletters, and most of those newsletters have clear, explicit thoughts: they are articles, written with clear purpose to instruct or explain a concept, often times commenting on the current sociopolitical landscape and our in/ability, as people of conscience, to deal with the horrors of latestage capitalism.

Rabbit, rabbit and welcome to February. 💌 Today is Imbolc and tomorrow is forecasted to be in the 60°s ’round these parts, which has me excited about spring even though it is currently cold and windy, muddy and icy, and the crows are waltzing across grey, cloudy skies. I can’t expect February to be any other way, it is what it is… But! Brighter days are coming soon, I can just feel it! (And tomorrow’s promise of a 60° day has me giddy!)