Writer, reader, knitter, sometimes organizer. Student of climate & shifting seasons. Contentedly discontent.
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Last Notes npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I’ll be reading tomorrow evening in #Fairbanks (highway conditions allowing). Come join if you can! npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Got some snow npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I read this piece (https://atmos.earth/climate-solutions/could-social-media-serve-the-people-instead-of-profits/) then checked in here for the 1st time in A WHILE to see my reply to @inquiline from over a year ago got another like: "Mostly, I just want a functional networking tool, but I don’t even know how to talk abt what makes the fediverse the fediverse. while I’m always happy to be part of an anti-capitalist experiment I also, if I’m honest, don’t really know what makes a server a server vs a potato with some wires stuck in it..." npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson icymi: #Alaska State Writer Laureate Vera Starbard highlighted an Alaska Native book a day throughout November, and here they all are, compiled in a list 📚 npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I know we all hate M*ta, AND it's still where a lot of stuff happens, including book promotion & sales. Unfortunately, my publisher, Porphyry Press, was just kicked off FB & IG for unknown reasons🤨 npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson The vibes are weird on the whole internet right now, aren’t they 🫠 npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson ah, love this one! I’ve been talking with a neighbor this winter about how hard it is to capture the quality of winter light coming through the trees npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I think so often about the infrastructure needed to get X number of people from point A to point B, & what they do when they get there, & what they take...& there's a permeable line between extraction & experience, & I don't always know where it is...but it's always unnerving to hear people suggest that tourism can be our post-transition economic replacement npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson thanks so much! npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Resharing an evergreen publication on #Alaska tourism, for AK Humanities Forum Magazine, because I learned last week that it's now available online in a more readable format. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson that’s good to know. I’m trying to bring it back, to be a little more deliberate in the social media fluxes, but it feels like an atrophied muscle. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Reading some emails from 2007 for…art reasons, & I’m struck by how conversational & far-ranging they were, spanning distances & topics; real exchanges. Like, before we were traumatized by email it was like “hey, have you read this book? I think you’d like it. How was your date last week? How is your existential dread? Oh and I ran into ___!” npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson goddam npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson thank you- that seemed to do it npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson hey y'all, i'm back, and... npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson In light of recent & ongoing news, here are some dogs who have been in my dog’s head-level PO box: npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson still need to track down a copy- looking forward to it! npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Morning ski, 10°F and dropping, slight north wind is biting enough to not mess around. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson -23°F with moon npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Have you signed on to this petition addressing sen. sullivan's latest mining road nonsense? npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Sigh. I’ve reluctantly joined bluesky too. My social media choices right now feel like just throwing spaghetti at …well, my metaphor sucks, just trying to stay hyper-connected and anti-fascist and also try to think about book marketing and so…anyway, I’m over there now too. Same handle. Same messy struggle for connection and relevance. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I’ve reemerged after a magical 2 weeks sailing around #Svalbard as part of the #ArcticCircleResidency. For now, I have few words to share, but that will come in time. Stay tuned. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I'm so excited to share that my essay collection will be published by #PorphyryPress next year! It's been a long time coming, but this is the right fit. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson “America’s favorite pastime is amnesia,” (Alicia Harris, a Native art history professor at the University of Oklahoma and a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes) said. “That’s maybe nowhere more evident than in these land art works, when we’re asked to just presume that there wasn’t anything here.” npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson land vehicles in water is the most terrifying thing to me and I can’t stop staring at these photos. Just…wtf. Amazing recovery npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Gorgeous morning on the Denali Highway this morning npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Dead trees, fall colors npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Mile 234, parks highway, 8:45am npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Dog tail wind report npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I finished my 2004 #tempestry for the #DenaliNationalPark weather station centennial. This was such an unexpectedly thought provoking project. npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson Berry day. Photo of me by a friend npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson I’ll be part of the climate perspectives panel, talking about knitting a tempestry, but gonna talk about some other stuff too 😉 npub1nr8gfwenhzlzcv024tk553y0pcvhlpcpmr6j4url0mahsmzvlg5s5uzzjv Erica Watson New #introduction because it's been a while:
