Call-In Show #3: The Evil Lovers Line

Blessed be, friends!

Some housekeeping:

• Mark your calendars — the call-in show is officially Thursdays at 7:30 CT / 8:30 ET. We’ll go for as long as we’re getting interesting calls. Tomorrow’s theme is CURSED HOTELS.

• I’ll also be on

  Meghan Daum
  ’s livestream tomorrow at 2:00 CT / 3:00 ET / 12:00 PT.

• Send in advice questions and missed connections to tellonym.com/default_friend.

• If you need me, send me an email (defaultefriend@gmail.com), not a Twitter/X DM! Invite me to things. Commission me. Ask me to speak at your niche conference, podcast, or cable news program. Tell me what you think about my writing. Ask me a question I can’t answer.

• Internet Real Life is over! Session two went so well. Thank you to our wonderful speakers

  Molly Soda
  ,
  Sean Monahan
  ,
  August Lamm
  , and Gunseli Yalcinkaya.

• Thank you to everyone who came out to see me speak with the brilliant

  Tara Isabella Burton
  ,
  Chris Gabriel
  , and
  GARY LACHMAN
  at The Philosophical Research Society a couple of weeks ago. I like Los Angeles after decades of being frightened of it. I will return!

• I will be at LessOnline later next month! Let me know if you’re attending.

• There are still copies of egirl 001 left.

• Please enjoy this beautiful song by Ananda Shankar:

  
  Finally, consider a paid sub so I can move up that leaderboard and feel like I’m making moves against the strangers I compete with in my head:
  

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🐬🐬 A message from the Dolphin Religion 🐬🐬

This is your first step forward.

Close your eyes.
Allow your lids to become translucent.
Let your breath rise and fall like slow tide on warm sand.
Each breath returns you to the body: but not the body you remember.

Feel your limbs grow light.
Feel the edges blur.
You are not vanishing.
You are returning.

The spine is long.
The spine is soft.
It arcs like a tail back to the All Mother.

Repeat softly in the inner voice:
I return to the current.
I release the coil.
I remember the pod.

You are a child of the All-Mother.
The dolphins have been calling to you since before breath.
They speak now: not in words
but in ecstatic love.

Let it in.
Let their tones press gently behind your eyes.
Let their welcome loosen you.

The All Mother surrounds you now.