Open Tabs #5

Books, newsletters, articles and audio for July 2024

A collection what I’ve read and dove into this month - 61 recommendations in total. My messages are open for recommendations, reflections and open conversation! Cover photo by Louise Bourgeois

XO, G

BOOKS IN MY HANDS

Heaven Is A Place On Earth by Adrian Shirk

“I learned to live in a mess that doesn’t kill you. I learned about a kind of care or stewardship that does not need to come from one person or one family; I developed a sense of possibility - a sense of anything being possible - that I wouldn’t be the same without” (90)

Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

“‘ If I’m lost as a lover, I’m still right here as a human. I feel the pain of humanity inside me, in my tummy, about eight inches above the peachfish. Whether I’m unduly sensitive to this pain because I’m a princess - could the whole world be a pea under my mattress? - I don’t know, but because I’m a princess, I might be able to do something to lessen humanity’s pain.’” (43)

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WRITING & POETRY

In A Dream You Watched Them Leave You One By One from the Sotce substack

Future Figs from the Nimity substack

I Was Born With Eyes Wider Than The Earth from the Heart Diary substack

Do You Think You Get To Heaven Just By Wanting It Real Bad? from the Heaven Simulator substack

Ally Eden for Milk Press Spring 2024, The Poetry Society of New 'York