Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
1/11: natural rising
When I was growing up my parents would use the phrase "natural rising" to signal that, for a given day, we didn't have to set our alarm clocks. Today is the last day of winter break, and one thing that I've appreciated about it has been the opportunity for natural rising on most days. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to set the alarm clock in the past 3 weeks. And today it was actually the bright white sun that woke me up; what a pleasure.
Natural rising sounds so humane and peaceful. Now that I've been back to school for a week, my Natural Rising returned to "early" and I'm fighting less with that desire to stay under the covers!
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