Keep Writing no. 177 January 2024

A better way to say how are you?

If you haven’t yet heard Yoko Ono’s Revelations with Catpower, go now. Listen. Then come back.

This song has been haunting me since I heard it on a mix CD when it came out and re-introduced to me during a session of Homework Club with Beth Pickens.

As I struggled through the winter of 2023-2024, I wanted a better answer when someone asked me how I was doing. Because I knew I was going to be fine even though I cried daily. And that was a rough conversation at the coffee shop.

Two color risograph printed at Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland.

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