I’ve been spending the past couple of weeks protecting my field. This has involved removing something like 9/10 of the contacts from my phone, going whitelist-only on communication, paring back software tools that don’t facilitate right relationship to the practice, pausing new social engagements, removing accounts from two platforms that won’t serve the collective going forward, and firewalling a lot of domain names.

Most of the consumer internet no longer works for me, so I’ve just been reading books, drawing, and focusing on my local people. I wait for my close people to text me, which they do, eventually. I gather in person exclusively. I do the work to fix up my community, as best I can. The closest thing to “gathering” I’ve done since November 05 involved me doing a community trash cleanup, because our institutions have failed us. A day later, I walked the route that we cleaned up to see it covered in trash again.