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The neonate on my chest, light as this fog-cum-drizzle that’s partially evaporated. They are suspended on me with light animations of breath. I’m some cloud, tethered to some larger weather system and subordinate to infinite pink above that unfolds the earth. I am in suspended animation, much like the cast...

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All my memories before now feel laminated with a cheap filter. As in leading me to force air through my mouth and whisper to myself nothing mattered until now. This while laying in bed. I don’t believe these words, they’re someone else’s romantic. But the phrase parrots a scent of split with the before times...

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If you’re rocking the neonate up and down, leave the upper body alone and bend at the knees. Drive through the heels and give the big muscles of your horse half something to do. You filthy new monster in your new fantasy of epic proportions, you doll of a man.

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A week before she was born, the woman at the front desk introduced herself as “sequoia.” That’s an evocative name. I remarked, “that’s a beautiful name,” trying to angle the sounds just so in the hopes that my observation would drift over the cubicle wall without a whelmed masculine omen.

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Did we chose the...

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You’ll topple that which stands in your way
\nwith jagged confidence
\nwhile you’re having a whole body jag
\nyou’ll succeed with this mother confidence
\nas a mother parting a crowd to reach the child

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The neonate stage is a distinctive mix of emotional properties.

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Boredom unbroken even by the offbeat strangeness across the pages of Joanna Ruocco’s Dan (perhaps muffled by circumstances already too strange, as I will note below shortly).

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Tugged at into giddiness by the child’s reflexive paroxysms:...

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NAMES

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early girl\ntomato\nlittle monster\nmy unaverse\nthe unaverse\nlittle nut\nlittle nut hatch\nmy una and only\nlittle face\ndude\nman\nsir

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Good things are
\nlaying horizontal next to each other, falling in and out of sleep
\nalacritous latch
\nB in repose, having a nice family wind down
\ncute new noises from the neonatal
\nbrother got the booster
\nmom’s ease on the porch, sun drenched, listening to bird calls
\ncheezits on demand, thanks mom
\nwaste...

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Good things are\nlaying horizontal next to each other, falling in and out of sleep\nalacritous latch\nB in repose, having a nice family wind down\ncute new noises from the neonatal\nbrother got the booster\nmom’s ease on the porch, sun drenched, listening to bird calls\ncheezits on demand, thanks mom\nwaste curves...

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While watching the mother breastfeed the early girl tomato, I noticed her shoulders tensing. Remarkably familiar. I offered a gentle reminder, bringing two fingers together, fore and index, just strong enough to lift a bookmark, and sent them into shoulder closer to me, strong enough to feel through callus,...

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Perhaps the most frequent utterance on the training floor is “relax your shoulder.” The shoulder gathers desire for upper body action as tension. Whatever the move required, that’s where we seem to steel ourselves and become ready to engage. Even for a lunge or slide, ostensibly in the realm of the lower...

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Django is perfectly-sized for your small app that does something significant: softlydeveloping.micro.blog

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Don't sleep on Django admin as a development tool: softlydeveloping.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://softlydeveloping.micro.blog/2025/12/17/django-admin-is-stupidly-useful.html","date_published":"2025-12-18T02:42:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Ross Chapman","url":"https://internetross.space/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F03%2F62453.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"internetross"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-18 02:42","date_timestamp":1766025755,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"73988897","content_html":"At every moment, birds passed by the overhead that I did not see, clouds and bees, the rustling of breezes, the sun on my flesh. I lived only in the greyish, insensate world of my mind, where I tried to reason everything out and came to no conclusions.\nIn the hands of a less deft writer, Sheila Heti’s meditation on Motherhood might be a thickly uneasy rumination to bear. Appended to an emerging canon of what Kim Brooks calls a “literature of domestic ambivalence”, witnessing Heti naval-gaze-seesaw for hundreds of pages on a big life question for women of art – like whether to gestate – could be tediu... relaxedgeometry.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://relaxedgeometry.micro.blog/2025/08/28/getting-out-of-the-insensate.html","date_published":"2025-08-29T04:40:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Ross Chapman","url":"https://internetross.space/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F03%2F62453.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"internetross"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-08-29 04:40","date_timestamp":1756442458,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"52937367","content_html":"

Loud clattering of can\nBy co-living sub-tenant

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Sarah Hurwitz has a Zen “don’t know” before-thinking enlightenment moment on a hitbodedut retreat.\nI love this.

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That’s all I could say: “I don’t know. I don’t know.” I was saying that over and over again until I said, “I don’t know, but I can’t do this alone.”

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It was a moment of openness, of some surrender. I was so astounded that I started to cry and I thought, “I don’t know what that was about.”

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Don’t know about don’t know! Real talk. She’s staying in that don’t know, letting go.\nWarmth in my chest as I hear her vocal audio bits through my WH-1000MX4s.

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Tu B'shvat: internetross.space

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The guy in combat boots with a skull reading Love In the Time of Cholera on a call through the over ear headphones with coffee.

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End products, habiting difference: internetross.space

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Seung Sahn's Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: internetross.space

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The kind of extro: internetross.space

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From Amy Kurzweil at The Ruby in San Francisco on February 29th, 2024: internetross.space

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Two drinks max or else: internetross.space

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Sunday Prayer before heading to altitude: internetross.space

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