by Havi Brooks | Feb 22, 2023 | my personal practice
Image: thick frost on a blue wooden window in my kitchen My life without memory I have always left myself cryptic notes, even before the concussion. A devoted and forgetful scribbler of reminders, I exist in ADHD time: the thing that is right in front of me is either...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 2, 2023 | my personal practice
Image: a field and a fence, in the background tree friends on a sunny day, the light refracting, a bonus blue orb… Do-Overs Forever It is known that I do not hold by New Year’s Eve, and begin my new year on February 2, the under-appreciated holiday known as Groundhog...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 2, 2023 | my personal practice
New Year Experiments We’re talking experiments for the new year (my own experiments, and the idea of experiments in general), we’re covering the gentle art of pattern-rewriting, and there might also be sound effects. Whee! Preface! Context! And the usual parenthetical...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 24, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: Hannuka candles on a table by a window… Quarters, Quarters & the Superpower of X Three Months Later… A trope I adore in a television series is the card that tells you how much time has passed. I am especially fond of Three Months Later… Three months later…...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 2, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: a pool overlooking a river, with water flowing into the pool from the fountain Immersion Each day it gets a little colder here, and I wake up with the daunting knowledge that my first and biggest challenge is going to be finding my way out of bed. Bed is, if...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 14, 2022 | my personal practice
What is the opposite of a fire Each morning I ask a question (of myself), and then I don’t try to answer it. I just kind of hum on it throughout the day, if I remember, which I often don’t because my memory is broken (both in the sense of fragmented and in the sense...