10th Annual (and Final) OS NaPoMo 30/30/30: Week 4 Curator’s Statement from Caits Meissner

Editor’s Note: for the 10th and final year of this annual series, we’ve asked OS community members to curate weeks in keeping with their own work in the world, highlighting myriad perspectives and networks of making. This year, Ellen Samuels, Kate Hedeen, JP Howard, and Caits Meissner generously agreed to be our final curators. Each of these brilliant humans gave us framework for their approach to their week, which we share with you here. Click through the links here to check out Ellen, Kate, and JP’s notes on the other weeks of the series!
— Elæ Moss, March 2021

How beautiful is the concept of tribute? While curating the final week of The Operating System’s ten year-running 30/30/30 project, I kept marveling at this act of love. To tribute is to tap into the most generous and electric of intentions: gratitude for the gift of inspiration.

In the spirit of generosity, I wanted this introduction to be an ouroboros of tribute that is self-regenerating and circular and endless. And so I made a little game for myself. In each of the tributes written for others, I found I could embed my own special and beloved writer in the familiar sentiments so crisply articulated in the featured pieces.