Ily's

as dewy hopelessness drips from a dimming sun in the shattered horizon, when all dotted lines fade to black & we are at the edge of a very thin knife

time creeps slowly while the heat rises in your belly, i’m remembering a time when you were so cold & i used to be the light in your eyes

silent fields yield to my palms beads of crystallized sweat roll off my tongue, i yearn for freshness, your molasses, your spun sugared hair wrapped around my throat

An Indonesian Economist Links Rural Artisans and Urban Consumers with @sukkhacitta

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After spending years studying Indonesian rural villages and analyzing their market systems, Denica Flesch was restless. “I didn’t feel like I was making an impact — a real, direct impact,” says Denica, who lives in Jakarta. She found her calling when she stumbled into the world of looms and craftsmanship. “As an economist, we are trained to see production as a scale issue. Handmade seemed … well, inefficient,” she says. “Yet there I was, learning about my own roots through stories and values that have been passed down through generations. It dawned on me that development is not merely an increase in GDP or productivity, but culture plays a large role in it.”

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