Everyday I read another important piece in the news about how we need community and real conversation, how folks are suffering and struggling to find those vital connections. Rajanaka is here for you. Come whenever you can.
WE begin Krsna Stories this Thursday at 7pm, Kali Songs and Poetry on Saturday at 5pm, and Mahabharata Sunday Stories at 5pm on, umm, Sunday. Join us. All on Zoom. All the links are in past Newsletters and the Kalliyam blogspot for past newsletters with all the links or Message me if you need. I'm hoping that our new Substack brings together the whole community for Notes, Podcasts, and Newsletters. FB will continue becuase we're here.
Yes re “community.” Sometimes I think it’s a scary word for us, in various ways. One is “time,” as in I like the idea but I don’t have time or it takes too much time or I can’t commit, etc. I like to think of community a bit more like strands of conversation strung across the globe. Lots of channels and routes for connection but w highly various densities of exchange. A bit like “community lite,” which, to me, surely does not mean inconsequential or superficial. I think making efforts not to let those tracks or channels that have been created in the past become “dried up” of exchange. One thing about social media I actually like is how it enables that. It’s does not rise to full possibility, perhaps, but it also is, certainly, not nothing. About Substack: good possibilities; but its multiple channels/ disperseness might frustrate exchange. Our FB setup w Sky, Garage Band, Chitra Katha, Asana, etc., has a helpful framing. Perhaps that will come.
If we have rich lives with family, friends, work, just living, time is hard to find. I could not agree more that the brilliance of social media is that it invites folks to drop in when they can, when they have a moment. I'm a bit frustrated by our live Session timings because, of course, I would like to make that easier, meet more folks time needs and constraints. But we'll continue to do what we can and offer recordings and the rest. I'll do everything I can not to "dry up" our resources. I mean to keep FB and our Newsletters active because that will, hopefully, provide places familiar, safe and sound to continue our conversations.
Substack is designed to make things simpler though my first weeks have been a real learning curve. I think the Podcasts are what first drew me to this platform---I think people can listen when they don't have time to read. There are some really worthwhile sources on Substack, I have in mind the brilliant Heather Cox Richardson. So I'm hoping folks will take to it.
Yes re “community.” Sometimes I think it’s a scary word for us, in various ways. One is “time,” as in I like the idea but I don’t have time or it takes too much time or I can’t commit, etc. I like to think of community a bit more like strands of conversation strung across the globe. Lots of channels and routes for connection but w highly various densities of exchange. A bit like “community lite,” which, to me, surely does not mean inconsequential or superficial. I think making efforts not to let those tracks or channels that have been created in the past become “dried up” of exchange. One thing about social media I actually like is how it enables that. It’s does not rise to full possibility, perhaps, but it also is, certainly, not nothing. About Substack: good possibilities; but its multiple channels/ disperseness might frustrate exchange. Our FB setup w Sky, Garage Band, Chitra Katha, Asana, etc., has a helpful framing. Perhaps that will come.
If we have rich lives with family, friends, work, just living, time is hard to find. I could not agree more that the brilliance of social media is that it invites folks to drop in when they can, when they have a moment. I'm a bit frustrated by our live Session timings because, of course, I would like to make that easier, meet more folks time needs and constraints. But we'll continue to do what we can and offer recordings and the rest. I'll do everything I can not to "dry up" our resources. I mean to keep FB and our Newsletters active because that will, hopefully, provide places familiar, safe and sound to continue our conversations.
Substack is designed to make things simpler though my first weeks have been a real learning curve. I think the Podcasts are what first drew me to this platform---I think people can listen when they don't have time to read. There are some really worthwhile sources on Substack, I have in mind the brilliant Heather Cox Richardson. So I'm hoping folks will take to it.