Dear Friends, Every time I gather with people I love, the question arises: what should we be doing? Certainly, we’re in a collective emergency, and emergency demands a response, doesn’t it?
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is my newest hero! Thank you, Sal! I want to quote all of it.
* "What is the relationship between maintenance and freedom? What is the relationship between maintenance and life's dream?" These questions beset me, too.
* Maintenance = "to keep the dust off the pure, individual creation."
* And from you: "Maybe what we need to do is hold steady."
Sister Sal, I am lucky to have found you here on Substack. This whole post is music to me. I am honored to be named in this company. I'm glad I know my way to your archive, so I can read this again and again. (I'm also glad I saved it to read on garbage day. How perfectly appropos!) 😆
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is my newest hero! Thank you, Sal! I want to quote all of it.
* "What is the relationship between maintenance and freedom? What is the relationship between maintenance and life's dream?" These questions beset me, too.
* Maintenance = "to keep the dust off the pure, individual creation."
* And from you: "Maybe what we need to do is hold steady."
Sister Sal, I am lucky to have found you here on Substack. This whole post is music to me. I am honored to be named in this company. I'm glad I know my way to your archive, so I can read this again and again. (I'm also glad I saved it to read on garbage day. How perfectly appropos!) 😆
this is what I needed. thank you Sal
Archiving as care, looking in the archives as care, making community spaces as care, teaching and writing as care.
Great post. Wonderful video at the end. Such a clear voice for bringing some sanity to how we live our daily lives.
Yes, I loved hearing her speak — the sheer sanity of it, and the way that ordinary sanity has become courage in these times.
thank you thank you thank you so many resources here so on point so much care
Sadhana as care, high garden as care, aliveness as care, poetry and radical memes as care, twin-care as care.