1. EachPod

Make the Best of this Test

Author
Michael Chilcutt
Published
Thu 29 May 2025
Episode Link
https://shows.acast.com/poems-and-whiskey/episodes/amy-le-ann-richardson

To have something better, we have to dream it first. Whatever form it takes, you are allowed to create for yourself, for the joy and discovery it brings.


All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them...If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. - Ursula K. Le Guin: The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)


Amy Le Ann's tree of links


🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️


Mentions:

Rebecca Gayle Howell

Covid Garden Workshop

Ross Gay, Book of Delights

Guy Clarke, Cold Dog Soup

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Andi Tillman

A.P. Harbor

Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land

University Press of Kentucky

Eastern Kentucky Mutual Aid

Willie Carver Jr.


Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs


Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery


INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


Legacy of War Foundation


UNHCR,


*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.


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