This abridged archive consists of notable memories, texts, art, artists, poems, and stories, beginning with the most recent experiences of the year and moving back in time (not necessarily linear time, but a bit queer).
Running in the rain
Rekindling the culinary arts
SkyE saved the caterpillars in the garden from threats
Beautiful sunset, first day after longest night
Double cup tea ceremony for winter solstice
Butterfly eggs and tiny caterpillar on the threshold
New music platform
Listening to the loving sounds of family laughing and chatting drifting in from the other room
The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art
A shortlist of the most resonant queer theory texts this year:
Barad, Karen. 2012. "Nature's queer performativity (the authorized version)." In Kvinder, Køn og forskning/Women, Gender and Research, no. 1-2, 25-53.
DeFrantz, Thomas. 2017. “Queer Dance in Three Acts.” In Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings, edited by Claire Croft, 169-180. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Halberstam, Jack. 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press.
Muñoz, José Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, 10th Anniversary Edition, New York: New York University Press. Apple Books.
Additional significant scholars: Gloria Anzaldúa, Judith Butler, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Petra Kuppers, SanSan Kwan
The politics of citations
Smiley, The White Lotus, The L Word: Generation Q, The Warhol Diaries
Her return from seven months in South East Asia
Dream encouraging a vine to grow other way, and it did
“The function of the homosexual is to make you uneasy.” Martha Shelly quoted in The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library and Edmund White audiobook
My Barbadian performance Double Feature 12.10.22 livestream - “a tepid response to the climate crisis” and “ancient circle”
Blocked EPA emissions control #vote
Respect for Marriage Act saga
Rain on the roof and drizzle in our bones, cold moon full moon, save the pangolins, and he said the pandemic was over
“Because a ghost needs to buy a place in heaven.” -SkyE #capitalism
Earth colliding with another planet to tilt and make the moon
Great Uncle’s passing
“What do you think it will be like after we die?” Eddie easily replied, ”Probably like it was before we were born.“ - Jim Hahn’s weekly writing
She chews the sunshine
Made sandwiches and saw Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage
Aguahoja installation, by Neri Oxman
Beaver Blood Moon eclipse (last one for three years)
Flock of Red-winged Blackbirds squawking in the trees, all fly away in a burst (silence except for the beating of wings) only to resettle in another tree, and start up a squawking chorus… repeat…
Club Q Colorado Springs, deaths by hate-crime on eve of trans Remembrance Day
Dried Passion Flower leaf flying and spiraling in the wind, almost going over the building and landing far away
The Butterfly Ballet, every day for weeks
Sam Smith and Kim Petras LGBTQIA+ history Billboard chart #1
Projected Imaginative Potentials
8 billion world population
“Art is the anticipation of art.” -S
Fall Artwalk, Layers and SPIRITBODY performances
Reconnect with people we haven’t seen for 3 years
Can’t assume things will be the way they were yesterday
Butoh performances
Ancestors evening offering
“We are on the path of queer enlightenment.” -S
The Shamanic Bones of Zen, by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers
Of Water and Spirit, by Malidoma Patrice Somé
Swim out in the ocean a ways to see what it is like
Focus on only one thing at a time
Cleared the street
A.I. art prize
Healthy striving
Fall Equinox
Trimming the big tree outside the window and the heat is coming
Last member of an indigenous tribe in Brazil passed away
Artist in residence summer program at the J&S Gallery with Yves Gore and Frank Fu
The Forest of Copper and Green poem excerpt
“Color creeps across the land reflecting the passage of life moving into shadow. The fire tipped tops off the trees grow more auburn as the years go by. The white skeletal spines of giants stand out against the lush hues of forest growth…” JH
Extended stay and family reunion in Sequoia
Watched the sunrise symphony this morning
“Look! Little land birds with babies” -S #quail
S love sonnets for J birthday
128: everything is lovely for a day
“Crying on Instagram.” - an old fashioned country song by SkyE
Thich Nhat Hanh: ‘if the mind is too loud you can’t hear the earth’
“I don’t want to do poses. This isn’t a runway.” -S #yoga asana
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
Drove across the new 6th street bridge and felt the memories of our performance under the old bridge before the demolition in 2015
Uýra: The Rising Forest screening
Finished 5 weeks of first Ph.D. residency
“Live your life as a garden” -S
Playing With Myself, by Randy Rainbow
Atlas of the Heart, by Brené Brown
Taylor Mac Whitman in the Woods films
Kate Bush resurgence
SkyE queering the canvas series
Lone turtle walking in the grass, a family of meandering skunks, and an owl hooting in the dark
Inflation
Flowers falling from the sky and are all around us, 53 year anniversary of The Stonewall Uprising 6.28
Overturned Roe v. Wade
Unicorn raindrops
Summer flooding
Heart an audio play by Jade Anouka
“We are all queer plants, and the queer love and support flows like a river to the world.” -S
“my cursor hugs your cursor” -S #long distance
“Relaxing into authentic style
Surrounded by sparkling stars
We each shine our unique color
Multifaceted manifestations.
…
The time to see
The time to notice
The time to be
Together” -SkyE LGBTQIA+ pride poem
Queer Pride month and cinema festival
“Life is not something to be coped with. It is meant to be lived in miraculous ways.” -S
The light in the sky blinks 4 times
Death to the middle class - The Simpsons
1 million Covid deaths in USA
“Like being a particle flowing with the river.” -S
“You folks have really graduated to the equivalent of making spaces into sacred retreats - or even better: making places.” PSC
“Space binds space binds, sacred nonsense my goodnight to awakeness.” Simone Forti live poetry reading at Geffen MOCA, May 6, 2022.
“They gather and explode” bubble “everything is bubbles, what is real?” -S
Unexpected tiny gecko dropped from the blast doors and scampered off
Late April purple puddles
Memorial
AB dance SPIRITBODY reenactment
Day 1 Artwalk 2022 first time opening our doors since moving in 2020
NYC sized ice shelf collapses in Antarctica
4th mass coral bleaching
Heat dome in late March
Amaryllis bloom, first time in 2 years
The Plastic Bag Store screening, by Robin Frohardt
Spring equinox and garden tea
Mary Lattimore at Hollywood Forever - harps, flowers, and puppets
3 million left Ukraine
LA gas prices rise 22% in 3 weeks
2 year anniversary of WHO declaring pandemic 3.11.22
Attended Slave Play, by Jeremy O. Harris
The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
Time is a Mother, by Ocean Vuong
Don’t say Gay bill… ‘Gay’
Yes TWU
Drought is the worst in 1500 years
Sequoia National Park massive burning from the KNP Complex
Joni Mitchell pulled music off app / live performance at folk festival
24 hours beyond time with you: A love poem (except)
“In the dream world our day begins or night stretches into forever. We adventure in the everyday or the intimate landscapes of the beyond…The darkness of the morning gives way to light that peeks through the seams of our enclosure. A smile while you fly…” JH
Thich Nhat Hanh’s passing and cremation ceremony
Björk live in concert
Awareness & Equanimity
Silent retreat
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