I feel like I’ve been lucky, for the most part. Single parenting isn’t easy. Especially with a special needs child. But despite hitting puberty my teen is generally on the easygoing and happy-go-lucky end of the spectrum. Of course I will always worry about him. Worry about his vulnerability and how trusting he is. I am concerned about his inability to communicate nuance to me in complicated situations. Because life gets complicated. Right now something is bothering him and I’m not sure I’ll ever know what it is. That bothers me. And it’s even more complicated than that. Naturally.
Five temporary distractions:
- Tabloid headlines without the sexism: There’s no question that celebrity tabloids are awful. It’s essentially a whole industry held up by casual sexism. To hilariously point this out, Vagenda Magazine asked Twitter followers to re-write recent tabloid headlines, omitting the sexism.
- This arrived in the my mail yesterday. Metal Cats by photographer Alexandra Crockett
- A first look at Mark Ryden’s “The Gay Nineties West” at Michael Kohn Gallery in LA
- In Stanton, Iowa, human chain of 400+ passes books from old library to new. Neat.
- The Color of Noise documentary, about Tom Hazelmeyer and Amphetamine Reptile Records, premieres May 30th. Saw the trailer today. Looking forward to seeing it in its entirety.
The last two nights should have spent in the backyard, having a fire, but I was playing catch up on photo editing and big life stuff. And here comes the rain again. Now I have the Eurythmics song stuck in my head. And you probably do too, if you’re reading this. But it’s a damned fine earworm as far as earworms go.
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