#hthrloooo

primrose; what book does everyone right now need to read?

I’d recommend Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark. I return to it anytime the world seems hopeless. It reminds me that things can and do change for the better, it just doesn’t always happen the way we think it will, and it reminds me that hope doesn’t mean assuming everything will be okay but it also doesn’t mean assuming nothing will. Here’s a quote from it that I love:

Cause and effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later; sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope. To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety.

To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

And if you’re looking for poetry, I’d recommend anything by June Jordan. Her words have been a powerful tonic for me these past few months.

queen’s cup; what are you craving right now?

I almost said sex, but then I realized it’s not really sex I’m craving but making out, the kind of making out where you just kiss and touch one another for hours, almost lazy, and sometimes it heats up and almost leads to something more, but then you pull back from that, and just keep going and going, and it might not even lead to sex at all, at least not right then.

This stunning dress made me think of @hthrloooo

Where would you go if you could travel anywhere in the world? Why do you want to go there? What would you want to do there?

What’s the most delicious beer you’ve tried recently?

Hi, Heather. Thank you for the questions!

Seeing @therustyskull on his Journey to Nippon it made me reminisce about my two week trek there back in 2006 when I was the wee age of 31! I was actually there that year to celebrate my birthday.

Food is a big part, but also the history and architecture were something that I loved. From the Kinkaku-Ji (Golden Temple) in Kyoto to the Hase-Dera which is a Buddhist temple in Kamakura. I also just got so much joy walking in and around Shibuya. It was also a wonderful eye opener. Seeing beyond my own front yard so to speak and it is an experience I would absolutely love to have again. Also riding the Shinkansen (bullet train) is friggin awesome!

As you all regularly see I generally stick with the Juicy/Hazy NE Style IPAs but recently I had an Imperial Stout from Monkish that was made with coconut, and wild Bolivia cacao nibs that weighed in at 13% abv, and let me tell you that it was fantastic.

I wish with all my heart that they would call it. Everyone seems so stressed, and it's not the right time for these writing assignments.

yes. giving everyone credit and the option to continue learning at their own pace until finals if they choose...

that would be a dose of egalitarianism and autonomous agency that might really boost their sense of community. the option to collect a (mostly full) refund seems absolutely necessary to me, too.