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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Time for a re-intro. I'm a GenX writer, eldergoth, senior editor, and music journalist. I've lived solo in a studio in Portland, OR for 16 years. I was born in NW Illinois but grew up in Honolulu, Hawai'i. I'm long-divorced, feminist, queer-identified, and have no kids or pets. My life pretty much revolves around reading, writing, learning, music, home decorating, and religion. I'm basically a monastic without a monastery. The majority of my interests probably qualify as niche. Here are some interests I’ve rarely casted about, but would gladly do so more often in the right contexts + cozy corners. - gift economy and culture - dark ambient music - "shop talk" for professional editors - cottages and tiny homes - goth home decor - darkness retreats/meditation - car-free living - dance (especially bellydance) - subterranea (basements, caves, etc.) - right-to-die movements - my Swedish + German ancestry and family history - monasticism in modern polytheistic religion - philosophy of work and leisure
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Thank you sharing - has got me wanting to do one. Also, I had never heard of darkness retreats before
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Looking forward to it if you decide to post your own! As for darkness retreats... I wouldn't have heard of them either if I hadn't started searching to see if there was such a thing as meditation retreats in deliberately darkened spaces. Turns out there's a whole lot more to this topic than I ever imagined. Some religious traditions have organized dark retreats for a long time. (This always seems to be the outcome when I investigate a new interest: wow, I had no idea there were so many rabbit holes!) Anyway, if you'd like to read more, here's a good place to start. https://hygienicdarkretreat.com/
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