Nina Goodheart
@goodheart9na
Nina Goodheart
Residents John Comarnisky and John Lokitis, Jr., were evicted in May and July 2009, respectively.
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
A strong sensitivity to color or light or sound can come in handy when you’re making things. However, it’s not so great when there’s a line of people behind me in line for self-checkout line at the grocery store wondering why I am taking so long to finish the checkout process...
I’m Autistic — Morgan Harper Nichols
In 1992, Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey invoked eminent domain on all property in the borough, condemning all the buildings within. A subsequent legal effort by residents to overturn the action failed.
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
Sleep is fine (but it has to be “productive ” deep sleep, no naps!!); self-care is fine (so long as it also involves buying things, resisting aging, etc. etc.); exercise is great (disciplining and regimenting the body). But truly doing nothing, not even birding, not even gentle walking, not even organizing , where’s the moral value in that?
Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
Art is a reflection of the artist’s inner and outer world during the period of creation.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
For the seventy-one thousand people who live in Cascadia’s inundation zone, that will mean evacuating in the narrow window after one disaster ends and before another begins. They will be notified to do so only by the earthquake itself—“a vibrate-alert system,” Kevin Cupples, the city planner for the town of Seaside, Oregon, jokes—and they are urged... See more
The Really Big One
You can tell because deer get bloated, don't know if that's a smell you really can get used to. Not like living on a dairy farm where you get used to it. Death has a smell all its own, it kind of lingers. — Shawn Kremsreiter
Back home in Chicago, my parents grew old. I didn’t see this happening and neither did they. They were busy birdwatching, attending new plays, trying new restaurants. Our relationship had mellowed and warmed with time. But then my father, my sweet, strong, and only father—he began to die, and then he died. Words that still don’t sound true five yea... See more
Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife
Timey Wimey
timeywimey.co
time. and useful sites.
In 1983, the U.S. Congress allocated more than $42 million for relocation efforts.[22] Nearly all of the residents accepted the government's buyout offers. More than 1,000 people moved out of the town and 500 structures were demolished. By 1990, the census recorded 63 remaining residents.[23]