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Happy Friday patrons and thank you for your continued support! One of my friends wrote me in an email that he's decided never to wear pants again, and my very awesome neighbor accidentally started a neighborhood (email) riot, so it would seem that a lot of intelligent people are going a bit nuts.

How have you been?

Maybe I'm obscure

dunno, found this in an image search and DuckDuckGo said it was from this Quora thread. Speaking of obscure...

For whatever reason, a psychological quarrel was raging in my head all week. I had too many dreams. My brain is anxious. It seems to associate obscurity with being static, and it's pestering me with unhealthy and unrealistic expectations.

It might sincerely be possible for someone to decide not to take the better paid job, not to publish another book, not to seek high office – and to do so not because they had no chance, but because – having surveyed the externalities involved – they chose not to fight for them

I am not a static person, but I have built a quiet life that isn't quiet. I feel driven to participate in the world, especially now. I'm being asked to help build movements. I am cooperating on public sector masterclasses for country leaders. I'm critical, but maybe the State has an important role to play in society? I was a teenage anarchist. I am contributing to a world that doesn't yet exist, but should. The co-op is doing important work.

So why, on Earth, am I grappling with the quietness of quarantine? Why do I keep thinking I need to be doing more, when it doesn't' seem to be a reasonable expectation on my part? I feel angry too.

Maybe I'm contributing

From Charlotte is Creative's newsletter

I think a good portion of you might like to contribute to A New Co-operative and Radical Education Zine. Short contributions 750 words or less, maybe some artwork? I'm guessing a lot of us have stuff already written/made that we could repurpose. The deadline is Thursday, May 14th.

A reader sent me a tip about CreativeMornings.com. There are people organizing creative talks in a city near you. They're online, at the moment, but maybe you have a need to connect to some local folks?

Finally, in this section brought to you by Collaboration & Contribution I need to find time to clean up and contribute to this distributed teamwork guide/multimedia piece. Usually, I would remix or write about it, but this time I kind of want to plan and podcast a quick piece.

Maybe I need help?

That's it for this week. As always, if you hit reply and tell me what you like, what you don't like about this newsletter, I can improve it. Hope you're well ;)

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