Hey Good is Better family,
It's your weekly-ish love note from Tilly Hinton. This week, we talk fog in Los Angeles and how to teach in a pandemic, we bask in the light of Storytime Episode 9, we gaze at a sweet potato, we tell you about an important online conversation series that is made for these times, and we present you all four Good is Better Instagram accounts.
Oh, and one last thing. If adult-you you were a schoolkid again, and it was your turn for show-and-tell, what object would you bring and why? Tell us using the button right at the end of this love note.
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Los Angeles is famous for our swathes of golden light, our big blue skies, our soaring palm trees, and sometimes, just sometimes, our resilient concrete river. But those who know the city of angels know that heavy fog is just as characteristic here. The kind of fog that rolls in overnight, stays well past lunchtime, borrows the mountains, drenches the landscape, and then burns away, revealing once again the city you know and love. This week, on Tilly's LA River X Instagram project, we're featuring the incredible work of T. Chick McClure, a photographer who makes images of our river, of our fog, and of places glowing like gems in the darkness of the night. Follow, to drink up their art day after day throughout this takeover. It's a mood, and we're as excited as can be to bring it to you, over at LA River X.
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You'll remember Char Miller from Storytime for the Apocalypse Episode 2 where he read a selection of poems by Emily Dickinson, and from Episode 1 when his essay ‘Walking in a Pandemic’ was read out loud (yep, yep, couldn't get enough of his involvement!). Here he is reflecting on teaching history in historically unprecedented times. And - a secret just for you - one of those "really remarkable activists" he mentions is your very own Dr Tilly Hinton. Thanks Char, and have an incredible Fall semester.
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Here's what was read at Storytime for the Apocalypse this month. One of our many collective realizations from yesterday’s Storytime was that our readers should record themselves reading phone books out loud….those mellifluous voices would have people listening for days! You loved Storytime, you lingered long for the peach-themed after-party, and you said lovely things, like these:
"So so so stunning. My ears needed that!"
"So rich and so lovely. Thank you."
"Poignant and lyrical in two languages."
"Spectacular! Thank you."
"WOW! Again! Another perfect reading. Wow. So much to process here."
"Just so perfect and delightful! such a lovely escape."
"Fabulous! Amazing readers and thank you!!! (Totally worth waking up at 3.30am for ;-)) xx"
"This is the reason we need stories- thank you so much."
The next Storytime is on Monday 31 August, 7:30 pm, Los Angeles time. See you and yours there for beauty, nourishment and, as always, more love.
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Kim Holtyn is a photographer from Buffalo, NY, who featured on LA River X last summer. She shared this recently on her Instagram, and sent us a note with the backstory:
"When COVID19 first shut everything down in March, I found myself like many people with extra time on my hands. I was at the grocery store one day searching out sweet potatoes when one unusual sweet potato grabbed my attention. It had extra growths on it which reminded me of human appendages. It was bent and a little twisted, as if in pain. I decided to take it home and document what I saw as the pain we all were experiencing at the harder times of this pandemic. You can view these images in my IG gallery @kimberly.h.photo. It is a series of five images labeled Emotions in Isolation."
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Poet and Educator Kate Reavey who featured in our outdoorsy Episode 6 of Storytime for the Apocalypse is part of a collective at Penisula College that is creating online social justice conversations weekly through the summer. They are thoughtful, kind, challenging, and important. Join via Zoom, on Thursday afternoons, Pacific time.
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Let us introduce you to the Good is Better family of Instagram accounts: @tillyhinton, @storytimefor, @iamthelariver, and @lariverx. Click on the images below to follow.
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