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I’m launching a printed newsletter, and the first issue is all about embracing snail energy. Why? Well, it took me over a year to finally put the plan of writing a newsletter into action, so embracing the steady, slow pace of my favorite shelled creature felt fitting. I’m absolutely stoked on how issue one turned out, and I don’t think I would be able to say that if I had blustered my way through making this happen back when I had the idea many months ago. My zine projects need time to marinate. (I also had to work out some kinks in the process; a New Year newsletter that I sent […]

Every time that I tried to sit down and write this post, something about the empty textbox would give me a little pang of anxiety. I felt stuck. No words could patter out from my finger tips. I just stared and started at the great nothing as the cursor blinked its impatient toe-tap, only to eventually give up, open a new tab, and distract myself by scrolling reddit or refreshing the KCZC application spreadsheet and watching the number of potential tablers tick up and up and up.

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.

“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…