Sara Campbell

We're hosting Angel City Zen Center's first ever camping retreat in Malibu in June. Wanna come sit with us to the sound of the waves, eat meals cooked over an open fire, and spend breaks at the beach? Super affordable for max accessibility. Join us! https:// aczc.org/retreat

@danielbrottman Adhere to a strict practice schedule and hold it lightly. It's in the way that you live it.

hey how do u guys balance being "on mission" with being carefree, having fun, whimsy etc

@bigjuncofan Yeah for sure. It’s just strange to me that the popular understanding that money can be a corrupting influence seems to have disappeared.

@tinyrevver I think it's telling that "sellout" isn't an insult anymore. Not that the old setup was perfect, but at least there was some effort to be authentic

Reading things on here makes me wonder if there are still young people who care more about art than money, or if getting the bag just supercedes everything these days

Stayed up way past my bedtime last night listening to favorite old records with my best headphones on and it was pure delight

@michelleakin just finished a workout and peeping twitter while i drink my protein shake 💪

mutual monday: tell me what you’re doing rn, RIGHT NOW!

@erinmartina @emokendallroy When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir?

@stephsoussloff 😂

@tinyrevver Because they can’t spell real-i-ty

Why is it that the people with the most tenuous grip on reality always seem to become real estate agents?

Just realized that yesterday was three years since I last had a drink. Time flies when you never worry about hangxiety again.

@sensefulronin it's worth it!! and not all sad!

@tinyrevver Saw the first episode and was already tearing up 😭 Gonna give myself the courage to keep going

I've been watching Frieren in my (very limited) free time, and basically all I want to do is watch Frieren all the time. It's SO GOOD.

@theeroamer yes!

@ericzawo x.com/RichDecibels/s…

Someone who doesn’t know the name of their next door neighbours is thinking about how they too can take advantage of the booming IRL connection economy

@TheWapplehouse Kurt Vonnegut nailed this concept

@strangestloop Not exactly what you’re asking for, but not far off. Wrote this years ago. essaydaily.org/2021/12/advent…

does anyone know of a detailed written account of the felt shift from the luteal to menstrual phases?

Been thinking a lot about why I don’t like to come to twitter much anymore. It’s been clear for a while that my remaining interest in social media platforms is based on three fundamental things: 1. I like to know what’s in the zeitgeist. The primary places that get my attention, twitter and substack, are places where ideas rip through at a rapid pace. This scratches a deep need for novelty and understanding of the human condition and its undying will to move forward. I find it fascinating, I always will. 2. Despite neither of these platforms being the most relational (they’re pointedly not Facebook and Instagram, which don’t interest me at all), I do value the connections I’ve made here, because they’re with other people who are following these human themes. My kindred spirits. 3. My deep love of silliness and play. I love a jester, a person who is moving through life thoughtfully but lightly, aware of the darkness, willing to acknowledge it, but not giving it undue weight. There’s a dance in that that is evidence of a sophisticated mind at work, and I respect and admire the hell out of it. Twitter is a brilliant platform for a jester poaster because of its by-the-minute feel, and the best days on here are when something big happens that spawns a million hilarious riffs on it. I still get all of these things to some degree, and that’s what keeps me here to the extent that I am. But what is actively ruining it for me is the profound mismatch between the dominant narratives that hold sway and the reality on the ground. In my corner of twitter, which I recognize is different for everyone, men and women hate each other and harbor deep wells of suspicion about even the most normal interactions; AI is going to ruin all of our lives; anyone who doesn’t vote the way you do is evil and needs to be eliminated, etc. There are many more of these us vs them narratives, obviously, I’m just so tired of seeing them because I look around and see people working things out all the time. That’s the true human story. Consistently surmounting the insurmountable, working together to move through conflict, persevering against all odds. Anyway, the pope said it better than me here. Amen, Mr Pontifex. This is madness.

me and who

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

If you’re in LA! My brilliant friend Robert and I are offering an experimental sound bath tomorrow (Sunday) at 3pm at Groundfloor in Echo Park. Join us and lie back for a delightfully interdependent and co-arising sonic experience (that you will also be co-creating just by existing!). There’ll be room feedback, bowls, hurdy gurdy, springzinger, wind wand bullroarer, an assortment of everyday objects, a little modular synthesizer, and some poetry from Zen masters of the ancient past. partiful.com/e/zWa4sEPIe1kd…?

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