After last week’s letter on existential dread I present to you a little palette cleanser this week.
Literally everything by Morag Myerscough, but especially connecting to this Peace and Joy garden installation.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory on flow state
One must be engaged in a challenging activity that requires skill.
One must concentrate to experience merging of awareness and action.
Have clear and achievable goals with some kind of immediate and positive feedback
We must believe we have some kind of control over the experience.
One must experience reprieve from consciousness.
A link to his book, Flow.
Painting by my friend and former studiomate Katy Smail (rip to our old studio, The Bakery, which has since closed down).
Diana Di Prima’s REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #16
we are eating up the planet, the New York Times
takes a forest, every Sunday, Los Angeles
draws its water from the Sacramento Valley
the rivers of British Columbia are ours
on lease for 99 years
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every large factory is an infringement
of our god-given right to light and air
to clean and flowing rivers stocked with fish
to the very possibility of life
for our children’s children, we will have to
look carefully, i.e., do we really want/
need
electricity and at what cost in natural resource
human resource
do we need cars, when petroleum
pumped from the earth poisons the land around
for 100 years, pumped from the car
poisons the hard-pressed cities, or try this
statistic, the USA
has 5% of the world’s people uses over
50% of the world’s goods, our garbage
holds matter for survival for uncounted
‘underdeveloped’ nations
Read them all at The Anarchist Library.
Above: some paintings I made this week. Below: a painting from my grandma.
That’s it for the week!
See you next Sunday.
Bekka
Thank you for sharing Bekka 💜