two ears for saturday

I've been feeling a bit deprived of all sorts of stuff lately due to a doozie of a head cold and the other trillion and seventy six things I convince myself I need to do each and every day in order to survive on this planet. Making and listening to music is on this deprivation list along with: creating a "domesticated GIF library", writing, acting like a sloth, napping in a hammock, applying for grants, writing letters to grandma dot, traveling to Senegal and making things I want to make - things that aren't necessarily things, just ideas that look like things.

To knock some of this deprivation in the teeth, I put together this little melding of some rather elevating tunes. These are songs to be eaten to, lounged to, wiped to, hidden under furniture to, lazed to, bathed to, smooched to, hiccuped to, anything-you-want-to-do to. 

Enjoy.

Sunday's Music for Saturday

Here's a dandy little playlist called Sunday for today - Saturday. Because it's how I like to think about time these days, as a mashup. 10am is 3pm. 8:24am is 4:32pm. Wednesday is Monday. Etc..

Saturday Shenanigans

I'm in the process of reading several books. Each has its designated time to be read. While riding the bus to and from work each day, I'm reading The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison. While building up my knee strength at the gym, I'm listening to Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach. During lunch, I'll pick up Possibility of Being by Rainer Maria Rilke. And before I close my eyes and nose dive into dreamland, I'm reading The Reenactments by Nick Flynn and In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe. 

I can now bend my knee to 138 degrees. In case you didn't know, this is what 138 degrees looks like:

This morning I started working with a personal trainer to more fully rehabilitate my knee (and the rest of my body, which is a bit out of whack). My limbs are feeling wobbly and weak, flaccid and frustrated, puny and pulverized. But it's happening. Progress. 

TBA is happening right now. Though I usually like to overcommit and see too much, this year I've chosen to see Cynthia Hopkins, BodyCartography Project, Mammalian Diving Reflex, and Kim Gordon's new band, Body/Head. Because I know the melding of art and activism are vital, I'll probably check out THIS forum. 

A few friends from my former Goddard MFAIA program are gathering tonight for the first time in quite a while. There will be wine, hummus, pickles, pita and discourse on domestic choreography, ass wrangling, cyborg feminism, and juggling motherhood with art and work.