Resource Roundup #60
For the week of December 30th.
Well, folks, happy Friday, happy end of the year, etc, etc.
I’m personally finding it hard to believe a whole year has passed, and also that it has only been a year. For me, life feels split between my birthday in July, a clear before and after. I’m especially grateful for everything that has happened in the last twelve months, and for all of you reading this. I know I say it all the time, but there aren’t enough words to encompass how much it means. I hope you do something on these last days of the year to celebrate yourself, and create new rituals as we move into this new time and space.
This week’s roundup is a mix of things I’ve loved this week, and in the spirit of the endings, things I’ve loved this year. As always, reach out with any questions/recommendations/comments.
To be as cliche as possible, see you next year…
This strange thing always happens to me in the winter when I realize Autumn is over (my favorite season) and I never feel I stopped to enjoy it enough. Even if we now have warm weather back to the South, I’ll still be blasting this song, which takes me right back to those first crisp days of early fall.
Nikki Giovanni, always. Here she is on love, care, and rest. And one of my favorite poems of hers, “Choices”, to round out your year.
Since i can't go where i need to go... then i must... go where the signs point though always understanding parallel movement isn't lateral When i can't express what i really feel i practice feeling what i can express and none of it is equal I know but that's why mankind alone among the animals learns to cry
Seventy degrees, working outside, feeling free.
New music this Sunday from 723! Also, the coolest cover art ever ever ever.
And our friends at Trash Tape Records in The Indy’s top reasons to love the Triangle.
Loved this story by Alabama writer Whitney Washington in this week’s Audacity newsletter.
How lucky am I to have gotten to see Lucy Dacus not once, but twice this year?! (FYI, she’s from Richmond, VA, in case you didn’t know…)
Last day to apply to the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize!
“I’m going back to West Virginia when this is over. There’s something ancient and deeply rooted in my soul. I like to think that I’ve left my ghost up one of those hollows and I’ll never be able to leave for good until I find it – and I don’t want to look for it because I might find it and have to leave.”
— Writer Breece D’J Pancake in letter to parents, 1976
Ed Simon and Emily Hilliard in conversation in Belt Mag, talking all the good things: folklore, mothman, Appalachia.
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips has a gorgeous new story in Oxford American.
Big Thief with one of the albums of the year.
A new radio show on wmmt focusing on contemporary Indigenous music!
Lots going down with local journalism here (cough cough West Virginia). Here’s more from NPR about news, journalism, and corruption in the Southeast.
Great jobs at Lambda Literary. Check the thread to learn more!
Ethereal, beautiful landscapes of Louisiana. I want these hanging in every room of my house.
