after much thought i have decided not to propose any panels for CT this year (though i *might* participate in panels—lmk if you think i’d have something to offer yours). i’m also not going to schedule any readings/signings or tabling to promote ON BEING HALF-IMAGINARY. i want my time to be more open

Chicago TARDIS@chicagotardis.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't forget to submit your programming and panel ideas for Chicago TARDIS 2026 through tomorrow, 10/11! Go here to fill out the form: chicagotardis.com/call-for-panels

signs of the times: some years ago there was a neighborhood rooster that had a call that sounded like “i know where it is!!”. now the rooster i hear sounds like it’s shouting “LIAAAR!”

the smell & feel of the air reminds me of the school camping trips of my tween & teen years, which took place around this time. both schools i attended used the same grounds, in the alleghenies, & i always found the experience very affirming. i had never done summer camp— in summer i stayed with my

poet(s) on a thursday

i’m here, don’t fret. just chugging along with less inclination to post.

urban species // handcut paper collage on recycled file folder, october 2026 a submission for Cut Me Up Magazine‘s next issue, which has the theme “The Fabric of the Just City”, curated by Clive Knights #collage #abstraction #artsky

October 2026 #analog #collage

update on an earlier thing: actually got my new passport yesterday…& it’s correct!!! i am beyond relieved. also kind of flabbergasted bc it took less than a week.

old guys! in the woods

i feel you may be the one to ask, @chicagotree.bsky.social—do you know if anyone’s mapped the locations of local little free libraries? or have any idea who might know?

We're looking for help! Right now, the EIC is the only one here and we're hoping to change that. If you have a love for literature or the visual arts, maybe you'd want to team up to make something cool? Experience comes in many forms - first timers are welcome! Hit us up if you have any questions 🐦

this morning we had the rehearsal for the zaike tokudo ceremony for two of my dharma sibs, which will be monday night. it’s a kind of lay ordination given in soto zen, & it’s the ceremony i had last december. i’m not super comfortable with calling it a lay ordination; i don’t experience zen buddhism

i’ve lived here over 25 years & i’m only just getting a sense of the full world in this city.

furthermore: you do not owe anyone access to your body, regardless of who they are. nor do they owe you access to theirs. full stop.

(please no reposts) the backlash against csa/sa/rape survivors is entrenched, systemic & unconscionable. it’s hard enough to seek justice/care/support when you fit the normative survivor profile, & when the predator you’re naming fits the expected gender for an assailant. if not, it’s even worse.

i love this book & often re-read it around seasonal changes

Uniformbooks@uniformbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay

couple days ago i made up a dish involving a carmelized garlic & tomato sauce (as in both were carmelized) that worked out so well i decided to really do it up as a highly concentrated paste to use for a base. did that tonight & i think it may be a new house “thing.” i see so many options!🍅🧄🫙

so far today i sat zazen as usual, chanted the daihishin dharani for jon mc kinsey, went on a walk in the rain to aid in opening some possibilities in a decision-making situation i’m in. saw maple leaves turning, saw the intensive & extensive damage riot fest caused to our beloved neighborhood park.

i see various people doing the “post a picture of someone looking stylish in/next to a car” thing. i could do that, yeah. but instead here’s a picture of me looking stylish AS a car—last year’s cosplay as bessie, which i didn’t actually pull together in time to wear.

it's not just that there are people who feel entitled to kill us. it's that they feel they are *correct* to do so. & it's not just that we're being murdered. it's the people who think that their job is to make it impossible for us to live. who cultivate an expertise in ruining lives.

(please no reposts) what a day to be a neuroqu♾️r tr^nsfella renewing a passport online. online form! timed login! personal info! high stakes permagamble over whether it will be correctly processed! had to turn off VPN for it to even work! we gotcher cortisol & adrenalin fountain right here.⛲️😵‍💫😵‍💫

If anyone would like to peruse it, I finally have my own personal website up and running! www.alejandrowilson.art

scenes from one of the most enchanted places in chicagolandia.

sometimes, in the light, things look more solid than they are.

i have learned that compassion is a relationship with the world & all its aspects (beings & objects) as much as or perhaps more than it is a practice. discrete (&/or discreet😉) acts of compassion are certainly beneficial, but there’s room for deepening, letting it become everyday.

squirrels are really busy in the garden all of a sudden—i wonder if i’ll find buried pastry chunks again this year when i move the soil out for mixing.

charcoal drawing animation by my amazing spouse

@rupert-glimm.bsky.social · 2w ago

i’m trying to lay out a book, & there is a fly 🪰

My company @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk is putting out a Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red, with a new @marthawells.com Mb short story too! @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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language used to create possibility & open more ways, more liberating relations, will always root more deeply & broadly than language used to control & reduce possibility. poetry is one type of opening-language, but it is not the only one.