Trust Fall on a Friday

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Hello and welcome to the new! weekly! version of Trust Fall—the slippery, shapeshifting newsletter that is once again making a lane change!

We like movement. We like multi-directional wind momentum, we like pivoting around here. 

May the perennial pivoter ( pivoteur?) in me see, honor and provoke the pivoteur in you. 

If you’ve followed me for any time or know me at all, you know I love nothing more than a wiggly lane change in pretty much all aspects of my life. 

You think it’s like this, but really it’s like this…you know?

I was in conversation earlier today about changing your mind as a radical affront to these boring ass oppressive systems we live under that cause us to feel like we need to be so airtight with our offerings, so consistent with our brand messaging, so CERTAIN about our direction before we put one lil baby toe on the path.  I call for mutiny to this programming in every way every day. Mutiny, people! 

If I could be anything when I grow up, which I can, I’d be a technicolor rainbow lighthouse blasting out the good word of YOU GET TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, and you get to do it publicly if you wanna. Mostly nobody cares, and it is never too late. More than likely people will appreciate you deeper for your realness. Or they’ll leave, and we’re all learning to be just fine with that too.

OK assertive! Anyways back to this newsletter catching a new look.

Moving forward, Trust Fall will come out every. single. week. Fridays! Today! Yeah baby Trust Fall Fridays. Let’s get weird and consistent maybe!

We’re getting more visual. Less long form essay and more digital art zine. I love to draw so very much and don’t make a lot of time for it, so this is an act of generous-elbow-carving for my drawing and drawing-adjacent, whatever that means, practices.

***if you’re like, wow this email is hella wordy with no pictures for a digital zine thing or whatever, believe it or not substack is letting me upload ZERO pictures right now lol and I really just wanna get this out at 6pm on a Friday, the precise moment when everyone sets their inbox on fire and reads nary an email! 😎***

The format will be something like:

Hello, here is a visual diary of all the things that inspired me this week, drawings of quilts I made, drawings of fantasy quilts I probably will never make, blind contour drawings of the present moment, weirder spicier memes that I do not feel comfy to post to the wide open, treacherous waters of Instagram. Again, you’ll just have to imagine and wait for next week, because substack network scourge.

In case you’re wondering, this is inspired by the surge of inspiration my “followers diet” on Instagram gave me ~ remember when I first told you about my experiment to stop following people on social media? Well that happened for SIX whole months and my brain changed in some miraculous and mighty ways, and also I'm still addicted to social media just like every other schmoomoo head.

But in that time I did learn that I actually enjoy ~making content~ for the internet void when I pay less attention to what other people are doing on the internet. Which is not a truth I knew to be true before my lil ‘followees to zero’ experiment.

Attention is so wild. It continues to be the most fruitful and beguiling creative asset to study.

So now I write words on pictures and craft my pithy plucky pseudo art therapy memes and am having so much FUN. I am REVIVED by what my inner creative authority has to say when I find the right containers for right now to pour myself into. And when I create the conditions to feel safe and cozy to do so.

So there you go. That’s what we’ll be doing around here now.

If you are someone who is like I do not need another freaking thing sliding into my inbox on a weekly basis, I hear you, I am in fact one of those people myself. May we challenge any codependency that lives within us and may you hop skippity do da out the unsubscribe door immediately if this is not your freak or flavor.

If there is anything I celebrate, it’s that we all continue refining what IS and IS NOT for us, and if this new newsletter vibe is not for you I commend you on the radical work of culling the dang flock of what you’re putting your attention on.

Ok yay yeehaw happy Friday, see you next week i love you.