Hello, friend!
In the last newsletter about what I learned from a monarch butterfly, I mentioned that I’ve been writing Starlight & Strategy for seven months now and am assessing where I want to go next with this project. I made a super brief survey to help me determine the future direction of this newsletter.
If you’ve already filled it out—thank you so much! Keep your eye out for a special prompt coming your way shortly. Also, I added a new question—Would you be interested in receiving the newsletter via snail mail, for a small monthly subscription ($3-5 / month)?—if you have thoughts on this, let me know.
If you haven’t taken the survey yet and you have three minutes to spare, I’d deeply appreciate your feedback. I am especially excited by people’s suggestions for future topics to cover.
I’ll be randomly drawing 3 people to send a care package to, and everyone who fills it out and leaves their email address will get a special prompt from me.
We have what we need: Messages from artist Molly Costello, whose work I’ve just discovered and am a little obsessed by, and the Mentor of Bones from the Collective Tarot, which I’ve drawn several times this month.
Image description: Two cards side by side with heart-shaped stones above and below them. The left card is an image of plants and flowers, with arms of different colors reaching out to each other with the phrase “We have been given all the tools.” Stars pour from palm to palm. The right card is a drawing of a cougar with a monocle, wearing sharp green suit with black tie and white shirt. They have their paws crossed over a skull and bones. The card is labeled “Mentor of Bones.”
In evaluating this project and mapping its next steps, I’m pondering just how far outside of capitalism I might be able to travel, and what that might look like. And it’s re-awakened my curiosity about the ways other people and groups have or are creating communities and structures that enable them to resist the harms of capitalism. This will probably be a topic for a future newsletter—so if you have suggestions for books, articles, or websites I should look into, let me know. Or, if you have questions that you are grappling with on this topic, send them my way. You can do it in the survey, or just email me back.
That’s it for now. Thank you, always, for reading and co-creating this digital, star-lit space with me.