Hey Hartlist,
There are certain moments in life where one thinks, Wow, this is exactly who I am.
UPCOMING EVENTS/LINKS:
May 21 & 22 @ 12PM & 2PM, Mary Had a Little Lamb and Also A Substitute Teacher
@LaMaMa downstairs - Delightful kids’ musical ages 5 & up!
(I am performing! On multiple instruments!)May 29 @4PM EST The Chrysalis #62: IN JUNE
Now-monthly livestream concert on Youtube (link), FB, InstaJuly 9, 7PM The Not My Birthday Show @ Rockwood Music Hall 2! Full Band! Tickets here.
FROM THE CHRYSALIS:
So…. how is everybody?
I personally woke up today unable to think of much besides the Supreme Court. I went for coffee, saw my cousin holding his (loved/wanted/planned) baby while reading about the Supreme Court. We said a lot of things about the Supreme Court, like … and I guess progress is never linear? and some other things (apologies to the lovely family just trying to eat croissants).
Back in my apartment, I went immediately into posting impassioned content to my ‘socials’, which is actually not a super typical reaction for me. I’m talking like seventeen reposts of other peoples’ quotes and a three-minute video to my regular audience and then a whole different video to my Clear Tarot audience and the whole thing took about two hours because have you ever tried to talk for only three minutes about something you care about and then also add captions? to say nothing of hashtags oh the humanity.
And then I went on to the next thing on my list, which was … to rehearse a song about a sheep.
Which involves playing guitar and kazoo, which I wear in a kazoo harness over my head, because I have a solo. On the kazoo.
It took me WAY too long to start laughing, or even notice the incongruity. There was no break in the degree of serious concentration. I just got up and was like Right, what’s next? A-one-two-”have- you- ever -had -a- friend- so- fluffy…”
I wish I’d filmed it. Recently on a dating app, someone asked me, “So what’s a typical day for you?” and at the time I just groaned. Now I have a GREAT answer.
Anyway, I was coming here to say “and that’s why I have nothing to write to you today”, but of course I do. Maybe I’m saying No moment is only one thing. Maybe I’m saying the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, but also maybe it’s less like an arc and more like a Jeremy Beremy” (that was for my Good Place fans). Maybe I’m saying we can and must continue to tell our kids stories about how to make friends, trust and respect other people. And how sometimes actual people matter more than, say, imaginary friends or abstract ideas. Ahem.
That’s it. Love to you all. It’s a bleak time in so many ways. Meet me at the coffee shop; they have croissants.
love
rebecca