Another week lost in the tumultuous jungle of life. Yeah. That’s how it felt this week. So it’s nice to spend this Saturday evening on planting some seeds on this garden.
Happenings
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On my active fight of the Attention Economy, recently reduced significantly my use of social media, mainly by deinstalling most of the apps, and focusing on going for walks, reading, but also recently practicing just doing nothing, like literally sit outside for 30 minutes open to observe and tuning in into whatever the neighborhood shows me. It’s being a nice practice.
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The NYFR - The New Furry Review zine was officially launched today! And I got so exited. A zine that you only can get printed and inside some community rings.
Picnic at the park photolog. -
We did a photoshoot with Seezy for Tetherbound which we’re launching this week our Batch 001 of leather harnesses, handcuff and more.
Watching
- Brazil (1965). A dystopian science fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. And i can’t believe i didn’t watch this movie before. Astonishing world building, poetic framings, and a representation of some of the systems we believe today that even hurt for some moments.
Reading
- How to Change Your Mind book by Michael Pollan (2018) traces the full arc of psychedelic drugs: from their explosive emergence in the 1960s counterculture, through the political backlash that buried decades of promising research, to the quiet but rigorous scientific revival now reshaping how we understand consciousness, mental health, and the nature of the self.
- The most exciting part, to me, is the resurge of serious research happening right now around psychedelics in Psychotherapy : opening real possibilities for healing, reprocessing trauma, and reconnecting with ourselves. And none of this is new: humans have been in relationship with medicinal plants for thousands of years (which Pollan goes into great details).
- Time is not linear, a reflection while walking on Green-Wood Cemetery