Fuckin’ Chucky: Why We Should Feel Rotten Right Now

(Spoiler Alert: Things Will Be As Good as We Dare Imagine)

We’re so earnest right now. ’Cuz we’re supposed to be. But the girl in this vid-loop is not doing a “s’posed to.” Fuckin’ Chucky bit her in the head.

Fuckin’ CoVID-19/the Economy/[insert here] Bit Us in the Head

Under stress, we keep only one thing in our minds. For some, stress or not, that’s their regular way of functioning (unfortunately, a few of them are elected officials). Some of us can keep only the economy in frontal view. For others, it’s the virus. For still others, it’s our latest nightmare.

The “one thing” is the “s’posed-to” that Chucky Girl tells to fuck off.

We Never Lost Our Imagination

In Untamed, Glennon Doyle notes that “imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it”:

In order to move our culture forward, revolutionaries have had to speak and plan from the unseen order inside them. For those of us who were not consulted in the building of the visible order, igniting our imagination is the only way to…