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Stains are durable. 

Long after the spill, the memory remains imprinted in the surface, wearing away after an unknown quantity of sunrises, rainstorms, or footsteps.

BL0T2046 (B00TLEG_LOT2046) is an attempt to deal with the stains. To stare it down and meditate on its signals and symbols. To let the past show us how we can move with intention to a less bad future. 

Old and new, you and me, what has been, what will be.

01. trust in the unfolding*

02. know thyself, DIY

03. balance limits with excesses

04. absorb the journey

05. outfit yourself

06. outfit your friends

07. outfit your scene

08. outfit your community

09. make meaning with mutuals

10. consider the materials your rituals are made of

11. treasure the trash

12. sometimes forward

13. work in the semi-open: translucency not transparency

14. learn to repair

15. execution depends on cultivation

16. hypnotize yourself or someone else will**

17. summon something

18. keep asking why

19. figure out how

20. observe residues closely

21. get the smell of smoke in your clothes

22. find the blurry edges of your soul and signal them

23. witness time through shadows

24. know when to bend, know when to break

25. there’s nothing spiritual about exploitation***

26. escape velocity is an illusion

27. develop splatter vision

28. practice presence

29. gatebreaking over guilds (9 times out of 10)

30. everything counts

31. explore but remember many have come before you, many will follow

32. speed and convenience are extracted from someone or something, somewhere

33. run goods into the ground like life depends on it

34. sacrifice is a kind of editing

35. leave the right traces

36. a cascade can’t be escaped, only survived****

37. invest in what is living

38. trash is tragic*****

39. every thing carries the weight of its maintenance with it

40. do not become encumbered

41. ABG (always be gleaning)

42. there’s no away, no elsewhere, not really

43. move with intention

44. share the loot

45. daily acts of faith

46. we are not kids, not a number, not a brand

wisdom gleaned from:

*Nurhaizatul Jamil

**Jenka Gurfinkel

***Sarah Levy

****Maxim Leyzerovich

*****Melanie Bernier