"The Whole World Is a Mystery" --Gertrude Abercrombie

On dreaming, aparigraha, Pittsburgh, and surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie

I don’t dream about the future like I used to. I don’t know if it’s just a sign of getting older or a symptom of living in America under the fascists or under patriarchy & capitalism in general, but what feels like continuous beatings from loss, grief, powerlessness, and the many failures over the years has me at a point perhaps more practical and measu…