Rising Tide – 2019 Week 30

Welcome back to Rising Tide, the weekly digest of things I’ve discovered or been into this past week and consider worth sharing. Enjoy!


June and July have been such a busy month! Regrettably, I have let these weekly blog posts slip and realize they have gotten a bit skimpy. I miss the days of the its beginning, brimming with interesting content. I’m working on building it back up again, I promise! Thanks for sticking with me!

Turn the page

1. Remember by Joy Harjo is a beautiful poem!

Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.

Joy Harjo – Remember

2. After reading Armistead Maupin’s memoir, Logical Family: A Memoir, I dove head first into the Tales of the City series and, of course, recently binge watched the new Tales of the City series on Netflix. Tales of the City is still a revolutionary show.

3. This month, I celebrated a birthday, as did my partner and sister…AND my grandpa is turning 80! Aging has been a topic of reflection lately, hence this quote:

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

Madeleine L’Engle

Listen up

4. This Noir playlist has had my undivided attention lately. Always beautiful, sometimes haunting, all female vocals:

5. Here is this week’s playlist:

That’s it for this week! Until next time…