turkeys and the moon brought us together
Greetings, earthlings.
This week was filled with dogs and a little bit of sun and I am so grateful for both.
I’m thinking about fostering a dog when my life settles down a bit in the fall. If you’re local to Vermont and have some thoughts about how/where to go about that, please reach out!
Here are three things I consumed this week worth sharing:
1. Nine minutes of audio that delighted me: “Turkeys and the moon brought us together.”
Vermont Folklife interviewed my friends Meg and Bar about turkey hunting and got a love story instead. It’s nine minutes long and makes me grateful to have these two as friends and to be surrounded by my friends and their love.
2. A song I loved: Seabird, Wildflower
My friend Adrian’s band, Wildflower, just released a new album, Green World. It’s gorgeous. The record art (by local designer Jackson Tupper) is gorgeous. The embroidered hats he’s selling to fund his tour are gorgeous. Everything Adrian puts out is gorgeous.
If you’re local, they’re playing at Radio Bean on March 8th! I’ll see ya there.
3. A thing I read that made me think: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center, Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study
Maybe I’m a bitter single 34 year-old woman, or maybe our culture’s centering of romantic relationships and decentering friendships is the result of historical shifts in the social order and it’s not the natural order of things.
I loved this interview with Rhaina Cohen, author of The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at Its Center.
I’ve been feeling lonely lately, but I’ve also been feeling incredibly rich in good friends, friends that I’d love to see everyday. The tricky part is making changes to my environment and lifestyle so that I see these friends daily and they aren’t merely “slotted into a GCal” because those one-off sessions don’t give me the intimacy I crave. I dream of building an ADU over my garage so that a friend can move in and they can walk into my house at 7am in their underwear to get some half and half out of the fridge because they ran out. That’s the closesness I desire.
“I talked to plenty of people who fell into this intensity later in life, including empty-nesters. One thing they have in common is an eagerness to be in each other’s space — a lot. They ignore the messages that only a romantic partner is an appropriate plus-one or the person to do errands with or be your ride from surgery. They do life together anyway.”
I made my Town Meeting Day guide into a zine!
A handful of businesses reached out wanting to distribute these zines, which is so cool.
If you’re local, I’m hosting a zine folding party tonight(!) so we can get these things out in front of people before Town Meeting Day on March 5th:
Want to support this project? I’m out $300 for printing and I spent about 20 upaid hours on research, illustration, and layout. If you’d like to help offset the costs of this project, you can become a paid subscriber to this newsletter or make a one-time donation on Paypal or through Venmo.
Thank you for being here!
Christine Tyler Hill
Website: tenderwarriorco.com
Email: tenderwarriorco@gmail.com