Hello Folks,
It’s Friday the 13th, which I suppose should feel unlucky, but after a grueling week today has felt surprisingly pleasant. The weather has been warm albeit cloudy, and I’m sitting in a favorite cafe that happens to be blasting a fantastic playlist. The view is nice, the lights are dim, the personal news has been good today. It’s the little things.
Enjoy your weekend. Resources below.
We’re talking slow activism, rurality, and mythology in the newsletter this week.
Apply to the Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowship!
Unashamed lover of the swamp here. Nothing like it:
This story by my wonderful friend, colleague, and fellow folklore student Sara Graybeal in Uncharted Mag absolutely floored me. Sara!!! I’m so honored to know you.
“You say I loved you like a little sister or a teddy bear. Maybe I did, but it was because I didn’t have either of those things. I loved you like the best thing in my life—see how that sounds different, but it’s essentially the same thing? I loved you like something I hadn’t been burdened with, something I was too happy about to waste time worrying it could go away.”
Learn more about Oil & Water, a short film following two Black towns in coastal Louisiana one year after Hurricane Ida’s landing.