Ouroboros Lab Notes: Endings & Beginnings
the newsletter revamp
Is it overthinking or is it devotion
Dear Beloveds,
I’ve been running the hamster wheel on the reboot of the newsletter for awhile. Circling, second-guessing, rearranging the furniture of it ( I do love to move furniture around). I finally landed on what feels right to me (at least for now. Hello Gemini).
So here is my humble offering for the beginning of the month and you can expect a mid-month offering as too.
I have really missed this way of connecting. Newsletters are strange vessels. You send them out not knowing where they will dock, or if they will dock at all. But even when the landing is uncertain, it’s worth it for that one perfect moment of connection. It’s the magic where something you wrote meeting someone exactly where they needed to be met.
I’m deeply grateful for the two founding members who signed up before the first newsletter event went out. Yes, I’m grateful for the pledge. But even more than that I’m moved by the vote of confidence, that sweet nudge that says keep going. Support like that feeds something essential. It reminds me that the work is not happening in a void.
It’s easy to convince ourselves that no one cares about what we’re building and tending. That story is seductive but also false. So, this is a reminder for me, and maybe it can be a reminder to you too. Keep writing. Keep sharing. Keep making what only you can make.
And if you need a more personal reminder, know that I’m here, ready to support.
Lab Note: New Offerings at Ouroboros Writing Lab:
Lab Note: Writing Experiment on Overthinking
Your turn. What if overthinking is a form of caring that hasn’t found the right container. Here’s a writing experiment for you:
Recall something you’ve thought or (overthought) before. Now explore it but explore it from your body instead of your mind.
Lab Note: Where I’m finding Inspiration
I’ve been to the Teresa Hak Kyung Cha exhibit at BAMPFA twice, so far. Each time I was really taken by the way she holds memory. Her ability to capture the porous nature of memory. I love how memory shows up throughout the exhibit in the same way that we hold memory. Sometimes it’s layered, sometimes it’s convoluted, and other times there’s so much white space that it serves as a reminder that there’s as much impact in what we don’t remember as there is in what we do remember. Finishing up the second visit I came to recognize the gift that Cha’s work holds for me. Memory is something that is so completely us, that we deserve to give ourselves permission to write it. Till next time.