I want to see it in action.

Repost from our local news. I've lived in MI my whole life and I didn't know they did this: This farm in Sparta is preparing for a cold night by lighting fires and running frost fans to protect its sweet cherry crop. 🌸 Picture via Kylee Rasch.

There's someone who goes to Mackinac Island in the summer that drives one of those--or at least used to. I haven't been up that way in a while, but I used to see it parked by the ferry every summer. So cool!

I just clean-and-jerked a 50 lb sack onto my shoulder like it was a feather pillow. Please refer to me as Peetah Mellark from here on out.

Q: What does “Here Below” mean?

A: Our name was inspired by a line from Marilynne Robinson’s The Death of Adam where she writes, “With all respect to heaven, the scene of miracle is here, among us.” [Continued in the comments] #HereBelowBooks

Summer Internship at The CAT Agency

We’re looking for a summer intern who is interested in children’s literature and publishing, has an eye for art and design, communicates clearly in writing, and can work independently in a remote setting.

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We’ve been busy assembling something worth your attention. 👀

First titles coming soon. #HereBelowBooks

Our logo comes from a simple practice: learning how to look.

Artist Corita Kent once sent students into the world with empty slides—small frames meant to help them notice what usually goes unseen.

The lesson: attention makes the ordinary extraordinary.

#HereBelowBooks begins there.

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Another day, another phone call to my state representative.

The cover of a book (my book): THE INTERNET WILL DIE, AND SO WILL YOU.

Just one more byte It’s possible that to store is entirely the wrong verb. Maybe it ought to be to attend, to give our digital lives the same attention we are called to give our physical ones. Attention, as a noun, comes to us through Latin and French, and, from those languages, carries the sense of to stretch toward, as though my brain, pinned behind my skull, might reach out, feel the tight restriction of muscle as it grasps at the world. But, by and large, attention words point in- ward, not out. We attract it and call it. We can gather it like wheat in a field or draw it up like water from a well. Always, though, attention moves from the world into us—except when it’s to be minted and spent. “Pay attention,” we say, as though it is a com- modity, bought, sold, and traded by brokers. The digital world both beleaguers and demands our attention. The quality of our focus and the metaphors we surround it with have diminished even as we’re asked to spend more of it. I’ve felt it, lately, in the very medium of the book, which rests ever more uneasily in my hands, though I’ve published two, including this one. I’ve read, I would guess, a couple thousand books in my life. It’s harder now, harder than ever. And as it’s grown harder, it’s grown more meaningful, those acts of attentional resistance, as straightforward as reading a book for pleasure—a refutation of market logic, a proletarian revolution in even the word attention, not something I pay for and sell on an open market but, instead, something I stretch toward.

“Whole strata of reality are lost to us at the speed at which we live, our ability to perceive them is lost,” Garth Greenwell writes in his novel Small Rain, “and maybe that’s the value of poetry, there are aspects of the world that are only visible at the frequency of certain poems.” Greenwell advances an argument best advanced in literature, in fiction or poetry, buttressed as it is by the logic of allusion. This logic stands in stark contrast to the totalizing, seductive logic of instrumentalism, which would have us see everything, every act and artifact, as for something else. Reading under instrumentalism is pointless at worst and a form of self-­ betterment at best—merely a way to refill the coffers of attention before spending it again. Greenwell argues for poetry, for reading, for all those many varied noninstrumental activities that demand this “unmixed attention,” to use the philosopher Simone Weil’s language, which are a species of prayer. I mean this in the same way Weil does—in the best and truest sense of the word: prayer not as an attempt to change the world, but as a chance to attune ourselves to a greater will, one that asks of us, Be more human.

The logo of Here Below: Books for the Subversive Work of Being Human

Presenting THE INTERNET WILL DIE, AND SO WILL YOU, out in September from @herebelow.bsky.social, a new imprint doing awesome things.

Here's the cover, a lil' excerpt, and the tagline of the press: "Books for the subversive work of being human."

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This particular scene is powerful in the movie and even more cool when you listen to the directors explain how they made this shot with practical effects ✨

I have the same questions!

I primarily WFH. There's a newish coffee shop a block from my house. For some reason, on Tuesdays, I want to walk over and work there for a few hours. It's always a Tuesday. How do I know? Because Tuesday is the only day of the week they're closed 😭

Honestly, everything I hoped it would be.

I've read the book three times. It's so good.

You pretty much just described the children's imprint of the publisher where I work. It is a great team and a lot of fun.

I am so freaking excited to see Project Hail Mary tomorrow.

I'm from MI and I don't think I've ever had, or have ever been offered, dessert nachos.

I do! More information will be rolled out soon!

New imprint alert!
Give them a follow:

I'm so happy Michael B. Jordan won the Oscar!
Well deserved! #Oscars

THE EMOTIONS I'm having over Autumn Durald Arkapaw's cinematography win. First woman!!!!! At 98 oscars!!!!!!!!!

I thought the same!

That ballet dancer centerstage at the Oscars right in front of Timothée Chalamet. hahaha.

The tall boot situation is real.

I just got rid of all my skinny jeans. I hadn't worn them in a few years. I'm not going back. They can't make me.

why . . . why am I seeing skinny jeans again?

🌺🌼 Need some botanical inspiration on this National Plant a Flower Day? Explore glorious #flowers and #colors in Jennifer Grant's CONSIDER THE LILIES, illustrated by Julianna Swaney. 🌼🌺

"Classy color practice from the natural world, with divine consideration.”
—Kirkus Reviews

Woot! Woot!