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find Attendance esse quam videri

[racheldoinglines]

Half moon on the wane

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Welcome, Water Year

Hello loves,

It’s the first day of the new year, the 2021 Water Year, and I greet it with relief. Depending on where you are in the world, how the seasons fall and everything like that, people use different calendars for water. This makes sense to me when I think about faith and belief. Liturgical* calendars are ways of counting and measuring that lace together spiritual and physical time. (When I say time I mean feeling. When I say feeling I mean emotion and sensation.) Calendars arrange songs, poems, prayers, practices, seasons, observances, rituals, foods and ceremony in cycles which gather momentum and accumulate meaning differently. (When I say meaning I mean–!!–place and time mixed with what you are turned towards.) Past piles on top of past and I don’t know how, but future piles on future. I’m not sure if that opens the future or closes it down, but–and I mean this in the least flippant way possible–the present barely exists? You know this and thus you follow or invent a calendar, and part of your life is marked by the presence or absence of traditional or ancestral calendaring, and by whether you are alone or together with others in observing the year. 

Sometimes multiple water-related calendars are in use, with varying degrees of relevance. The rainfall year in North America, for example, starts July 1. On the eastern part of the continent–the Atlantic coast and the Gulf, the islands in the Atlantic–the rainfall year groups the months of hurricane season together at the beginning of the year. In the southwestern US, marking the Water Year from October 1 to September 30 lets us catch most of the rainy season in the first part of the calendar and most of the dry season (and fire season) in the second part of the calendar; this allows us to measure precipitation and snow pack as it accumulates (and monitor groundwater and aquifers) and estimate whether we’ll enter or emerge from drought. Water measurement in North America prioritizes information about the drought’s impact on the land for agriculture. 

I wonder about this.

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Tags: #the water year  #the fire season lengthens  #the hurricane season comes early  #the rumors of water wars change shape  #The US Drought Monitor is produced through a partnership between  #the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln  #the United States Department of Agriculture  #and  #the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

To discuss: Thursday drought monitor reports, the curious measurement of population affected, which crops, what’s surface water, defining South

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Welcome, Water Year

Hello loves,

It’s the first day of the new year, the 2021 Water Year, and I greet it with relief. Depending on where you are in the world, how the seasons fall and everything like that, people use different calendars for water. This makes sense to me when I think about faith and belief. Liturgical* calendars are ways of counting and measuring that lace together spiritual and physical time. (When I say time I mean feeling. When I say feeling I mean emotion and sensation.) Calendars arrange songs, poems, prayers, practices, seasons, observances, rituals, foods and ceremony in cycles which gather momentum and accumulate meaning differently. (When I say meaning I mean–!!–place and time mixed with what you are turned towards.) Past piles on top of past and I don’t know how, but future piles on future. I’m not sure if that opens the future or closes it down, but–and I mean this in the least flippant way possible–the present barely exists? You know this and thus you follow or invent a calendar, and part of your life is marked by the presence or absence of traditional or ancestral calendaring, and by whether you are alone or together with others in observing the year. 

Sometimes multiple water-related calendars are in use, with varying degrees of relevance. The rainfall year in North America, for example, starts July 1. On the eastern part of the continent–the Atlantic coast and the Gulf, the islands in the Atlantic–the rainfall year groups the months of hurricane season together at the beginning of the year. In the southwestern US, marking the Water Year from October 1 to September 30 lets us catch most of the rainy season in the first part of the calendar and most of the dry season (and fire season) in the second part of the calendar; this allows us to measure precipitation and snow pack as it accumulates (and monitor groundwater and aquifers) and estimate whether we’ll enter or emerge from drought. Water measurement in North America prioritizes information about the drought’s impact on the land for agriculture. 

I wonder about this.

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Tags: #the water year  #the fire season lengthens  #the hurricane season comes early  #the rumors of water wars change shape  #The US Drought Monitor is produced through a partnership between  #the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln  #the United States Department of Agriculture  #and  #the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Welcome, Water Year

Hello loves,

It’s the first day of the new year, the 2021 Water Year, and I greet it with relief. Depending on where you are in the world, how the seasons fall and everything like that, people use different calendars for water. This makes sense to me when I think about faith and belief. Liturgical* calendars are ways of counting and measuring that lace together spiritual and physical time. (When I say time I mean feeling. When I say feeling I mean emotion and sensation.) Calendars arrange songs, poems, prayers, practices, seasons, observances, rituals, foods and ceremony in cycles which gather momentum and accumulate meaning differently. (When I say meaning I mean--!!--place and time mixed with what you are turned towards.) Past piles on top of past and I don’t know how, but future piles on future. I’m not sure if that opens the future or closes it down, but--and I mean this in the least flippant way possible--the present barely exists? You know this and thus you follow or invent a calendar, and part of your life is marked by the presence or absence of traditional or ancestral calendaring, and by whether you are alone or together with others in observing the year. 

Sometimes multiple water-related calendars are in use, with varying degrees of relevance. The rainfall year in North America, for example, starts July 1. On the eastern part of the continent--the Atlantic coast and the Gulf, the islands in the Atlantic--the rainfall year groups the months of hurricane season together at the beginning of the year. In the southwestern US, marking the Water Year from October 1 to September 30 lets us catch most of the rainy season in the first part of the calendar and most of the dry season (and fire season) in the second part of the calendar; this allows us to measure precipitation and snow pack as it accumulates (and monitor groundwater and aquifers) and estimate whether we’ll enter or emerge from drought. Water measurement in North America prioritizes information about the drought’s impact on the land for agriculture. 

I wonder about this.

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

An experiment, 1 October 2019 — 30 September 2020, on twitch and elsewhere. Particularly engaged with the US Drought Monitor, the Los Angeles Times and first-hand water reports from y’all in the twitch chat on Thursday nights (Pacific).

What is a water year? A calendar measure used in hydrology, especially when monitoring drought as it impacts people and agriculture. The water year helps us understand how record rainfall may not be enough to bring the land out of a drought. Also, feelings.

[racheldoinglines]

My computer is TOAST! Too much twitch. Anyway, The Water Year is extended as long as it needs to be. The Water Years kind of makes sense given le covid, etc., no? Tune back in once I have a better CPU a computer, and ask me anything in the meantime.

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Here’s where you can find the book Attendance, which I wrote with Rocío Carlos.

Order through your local brick-and-mortar bookseller. IndieBound can sometimes help with this, but going straight to the source is ✨✨✨. The ISBN is 9781946031327 / 1946031321.

Find it at a library with WorldCat. Ask your local library to add it! I’m especially happy it’s at the Los Angeles Public Library, since it was mostly written in and of Los Ángeles.

Straight from the publisher, The Operating System.

The big online stores have it too.

Show up at an event where Rocío or I are reading or facilitating! We usually promote those on twitter [@rachel_kaminer / @ninabruja7] or instagram [@rachel_kaminer / @ninabruja].

I also wrote a book called As in the dark, descend. Here!

[racheldoinglines]

New link to The Operating System’s storefront at Bookshop to find Attendance. (As in the dark, descend is on Bookshop, too.)

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

Here’s where you can find the book Attendance, which I wrote with Rocío Carlos.

Order through your local brick-and-mortar bookseller. IndieBound can sometimes help with this, but going straight to the source is ✨✨✨. The ISBN is 9781946031327 / 1946031321.

Find it at a library with WorldCat. Ask your local library to add it! I’m especially happy it’s at the Los Angeles Public Library, since it was mostly written in and of Los Ángeles.

Straight from the publisher, The Operating System.

The big online stores have it too.

Show up at an event where Rocío or I are reading or facilitating! We usually promote those on twitter [@rachel_kaminer / @ninabruja7] or instagram [@rachel_kaminer / @ninabruja].

I also wrote a book called As in the dark, descend. Here!

[rachelmcleodkaminer]

An experiment, 1 October 2019 — 30 September 2020, on twitch and elsewhere. Particularly engaged with the US Drought Monitor, the Los Angeles Times and first-hand water reports from y’all in the twitch chat on Thursday nights (Pacific).

What is a water year? A calendar measure used in hydrology, especially when monitoring drought as it impacts people and agriculture. The water year helps us understand how record rainfall may not be enough to bring the land out of a drought. Also, feelings.