Recently I’ve decided to try and–if not formalize–at least explicate my spiritual views of the world. Some of this shows up as ritualistic behavior and some personal beliefs: gifts may be reciprocated but only in certain ways, fasting is appropriate at certain times, modifying my body requires certain conditions and rituals, etc etc. Part of this is, honestly, a calendar system–the gregorian calendar just Does Not Do It For Me. The new year starts on the solstice, obviously, and the current division of seasons doesn’t fit well with the equinox/solstice dates…oh well. So, I’m fleshing out a slightly modified version of the abysmal calendar–here’s what I have so far:

• Starts and ends on the solstice
• Four quarters (ninety-one days each)
• Seven houses (fifty-two days each)
• Thirteen months (twenty-eight days each)
• Forty periods (like a week, but nine days each)
• Days, and time periods, can be marked by the construction of sentences, or by shorthanding the day in reference to the period/month.
• So, for example, the time around the summer solstice can be referred to as A Halo of Rays Flow from Aperture, or just the 20th of Raise.
• One high holiday (the winter solstice, All of Void)
• Four minor holidays, corresponding to the equinoxes, summer solstice, and first day of the year.

I’m not sure how, exactly, to handle leap years yet. I also really wanted to have a consistent grammatical structure for different levels of time notation–so, for example, houses always being adverbs, months always being adjectives, and periods being words that have meanings as both nouns and verbs–but gave up pretty quickly due to a lack of vocabulary that also fit with the themes I wanted to express in a semi-religious calendar (light, movement, breath, embodiment, and systems.) I’m also considering dividing periods into repeating three-day chunks: a three-day period of rest, a three-day period of progression, and a three-day period of maintenance, maybe? I’m not sure how to demarcate them in a way that will allow me to change my behavior in a way that’s adaptable to a 7-day weekly schedule, but I also want to have a greater specificity of time blocks without resorting to days (by referring to the second tierce of bones, for example.)

Anyway. Trying to find the right words to describe what I felt to be the actual seasons led me to scour a lot of reference material I’ve gathered, and it reminded me that, a little while ago, I’d wanted to compile a dictionary of light–terms applying to light, its absence, and the interfaction of light with other things. (Light and dark factor strongly in my memory, and being able to describe the quality and source of lightness or darkness does a lot to help me explain how I feel about things, so I’d like to have a consistent vocabulary to work with.) Thinking about that reminded me of all the (writing) projects I have on the side burner, so I’m writing them out here for self-reference and to gauge interest. The things I definitely want to do are as follows:

• Dictionary laying out a system of words relating to light
• Zine on how to do stick-and-poke tattoos
• Manifesto for/essay on subversive cybernetics
• Anthology of physical cybernetics
• History of social cybernetics
• Zine on direct action for nonarrestable people
• Essay on form and function in bodytypes and physical movement
• Essay on solidarity between play/exploration and displacement
• Book (essay collection) of specific avenues by which one can reclaim aspects of cybernetic totality, that is to say, DIY body modifications

There are also things that I….kind of want to write about, but I’m not sure on yet?

• What is worth exploration, versus what is better enjoyed as an unknown–and how truth/information has more or less function to different valuesets
• The categorization of things that seek to destroy themselves
• The categorization of music as (crunchy, poppy, motorized, etc) due to how I just don’t understand genres
• My contention with the phrase “I am x“
• The contention I hold for the adjective “my”
• Specific guides for specific parkour movements I’ve found useful in….contexts
• Specific alternatives to policing and incarceration (in whatever form is most digestable for liberals and their ilk)
• Personal considerations of gender and how it intersects with all other societally influenced aesthetics and behavior
• Conceptualizations of anarchist pedagogy and if/how critical thinking could be replicated
• Auto??? biographical anecdotes??????? maybe????????????????

And there’s also recurrent content I want to have on this blog, namely….interesting crimes, and original research. We’ll see what, if anything, comes of all this….but at least it’s here for reference, lmao.

Oh, and I need to name the calendar, I guess….