Resource Roundup #12
For the week of July 7th.
Hi Folks,
Bit of a delayed resource roundup/life update/newsletter for you all this week. Good Folk took the week off for the long weekend, my birthday, and an apartment move all at once. It’s been busy! As I write this, I am sitting in my new place in Chapel Hill staring out at the treetops bending over the creek. Trucks navigating the back parking lots of grocery stores. An open sign flashing red and blue through a distant storefront. It feels good to be back in a city, and weird at the same time. Once more I am the observer in the window, watching the world move about me below. Somehow this role feels natural. I am older now, but I feel myself softening into life with age. There are so many things I want and yet I do not know how to articulate them. But I know that this— writing from my kitchen table, drinking coffee in a patch of sunlight— will always be part of that.
Anyways, all this is to say that I apologize for the delay in posts this week, and Good Folk will be back to its normal schedule next week. There’s plenty of good stuff below to make up for it, though, I promise.
Also, another call for stories. If you have a story you’d like to share or have responded to any of our prompts, email it to us below, and we’ll feature it in an upcoming newsletter. And, if you live in Chapel Hill and want to hang out, please reach out! I’m new to this area and always looking for friends.
Solitary Gardens is giving prison cells a new life as gardens in New Orleans.
Last year I read The Round House, and Louise Erdrich broke me open. Currently I am on Love Medicine. The Painted Drum is now next on my list.
Bloomberg is investigating why rural areas are so hesitant to get the Covid vaccine, and the two Americas that are emerging from the growing vaccination gap.
Hurricane season, Southern Louisiana, and a lack of help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for those who need it most, via NPR.
This is really cool, and I wish we did this with more books:
An interview with author Ashley C. Ford in The Rumpus about motherhood, authenticity, relationships, family, writing, and redemption.
Shakey Graves covering Pixies is the peace I needed this week:
Audio documentarian and artist James T. Green talking about better ways to work as an artist, holding yourself accountable, and routine in The Creative Independent.
I already miss living two blocks away from this:
