I completely forgot to mention how I am attempting to create a third place with Chinese Dinner and how even that is becoming cost prohibitive to some people now too. But it’s the closest thing I have to a third place.
I loved these meditations, and the braiding together of thoughts on caregiving, travel and ethical non-monogamy. This also made me think of a braided piece I put together during our last cold NYC winter. I wonder if being pent up inside and away from each other naturally gives rise to these longings for third spaces where we can be more often together, and for models from the past or from nature that we might recreate for a better future. This was the piece:
I’m also thinking of the follow up piece, and Chinese Dinner. I think organizing these dinners is one way you practice what my friend Das calls “everyday power” — the power of being a Mother Tree. (And as I say in the piece, that term is not limited to femmes or people with biological offspring — a Mother Tree is as a Mother Tree does.)
I completely forgot to mention how I am attempting to create a third place with Chinese Dinner and how even that is becoming cost prohibitive to some people now too. But it’s the closest thing I have to a third place.
I loved these meditations, and the braiding together of thoughts on caregiving, travel and ethical non-monogamy. This also made me think of a braided piece I put together during our last cold NYC winter. I wonder if being pent up inside and away from each other naturally gives rise to these longings for third spaces where we can be more often together, and for models from the past or from nature that we might recreate for a better future. This was the piece:
https://ryanroseweaver.substack.com/p/3-mourning-and-re-making-the-village
I’m also thinking of the follow up piece, and Chinese Dinner. I think organizing these dinners is one way you practice what my friend Das calls “everyday power” — the power of being a Mother Tree. (And as I say in the piece, that term is not limited to femmes or people with biological offspring — a Mother Tree is as a Mother Tree does.)
https://ryanroseweaver.substack.com/p/5-fed-by-my-mother-trees