As part of my Personal Goals for 2023, I decided that I want to create a piece of music that I could use in my videos. I know extraordinarily little about music and music creation, so I have no idea if this is a reasonable goal or not. However, the only way I'm going to …
Brainstorming Video Ideas for 2023
As I described in my post on my Personal Goals for 2023, one of the things that I'm going to try and accomplish this year is to create five videos of different types. I chose different types of videos to create because I thought it would stretch me further than if I nailed down a …
I’m not dead
Hey everyone! I'm not dead. That might seem like a weird way to start out a blog post (and it probably is) but this is 2021 in America during the COVID pandemic where things are now much worse than they were last year at this time. Hospitals are full again despite so many people being …
Cannabis, mushrooms, and the case for community-based care systems
Hi, I'm Rose. For those of you who don’t know me, I'm an autistic, queer, polyamorous, nonbinary human and psychedelic mushrooms and cannabis have changed my life. I am the complete stereotype. I'm half joking but it's not untrue either. Cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms changed my life because they gave my former partner Wren and …
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A quick update since I’ve been MIA
Sorry to be absent so much lately. I know I don't need to apologize to anyone but myself for not writing but I've been thinking about the blog a lot lately and have been wanting to write, but I've been struggling to find the motivation to set aside the time and energy to focus on …
Overwhelmed by the pace of life
I'm having a bit of a crummy, overwhelmed sort of day today. Nothing really major happened, really. I'm going to the doctor later this afternoon because I have this sub-dermal skin infection that's been going on for about two weeks now despite having antibiotic pills and ointment from the convenient care doctor. He said that …
Burnout in the Era of COVID-19
I have struggled with pacing myself my entire life. Pushing myself and attempting to use every last drop of my available energy has been my default for a really long time. In part, this is because I saw other people putting a fraction of the effort in and getting good enough results and I thought …
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