“We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with.”
- Sherry Turkle
It’s been a while since a Flush & Brew newsletter has emerged into the world, but it is time :D
It’s been quiet on the digital front as I’ve been taking a lot of time away from my usual online obligations to enjoy the warmer weather, see people, visit new spaces and have adventures that I haven’t been able to go on since the pandemic began.
The last time I held a tea workshop was in 2019, and since the pandemic, gatherings in the home to drink tea and chat for hours have become a privilege. It’s a strange time we are all navigating, trying to figure out what it means to and how we should live in a time permanently altered by things that are beyond our scope of comprehension.
I am bringing these back in a relatively intimate format, a mode that protects and centres the communal joy of sharing tea, but also a mode that is critical and honest in its scope and consideration.
I hope to be hosting two every few months, with each session only seating 5, as 6 total (including myself) is my current preferred limit for tea hosting. Tickets for the upcoming session in late August can be purchased HERE or by clicking on the image below!
Workshops are part of the Flush & Brew universe, and are accessible only to newsletter subscribers or the lucky passerby wandering through the substack. So make sure to subscribe if you haven’t already to keep an eye out for all future workshops and other programs or gatherings.
August is also a season of slow making for me as I’ll be doing a tea brew a day over on the studio insta, before heading into another round of coursework in tea and embarking on other tea-related projects in the fall.
Song I’ve been listening to lately:
遠行 by Yellow黃宣
SAN PRESS UPDATES
New title:
There is no wifi in the afterlife
Poetry and Short fiction by Emily Lu
Layout by Ryookyung Kim
Artist Illustrations and special print by Abby Ho
There is no wifi in the afterlife is a refusal and a betrayal, written mostly during the pandemic. In this mixed short story and poem collection, fan-fiction, email, houseplants, housefish, and at least three ghosts sit in the same waiting room falling asleep to unhinged reimaginings of justice.
Restocked:
Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
Poetry by Natalie Wee
Illustrations and Layout by Ryookyung Kim
Special print by Wenting Li
A survival manifesto and celebration song both, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines by Natalie Wee, special edition, is re-imagined as both poetry collection and art object. Featuring never-before-seen poems and re-interpreted older poems, this edition asks us to consider what it means to exist in bodies that are pathways to extremes of grief and joy. Illustrating the body as a site of resistance, lineage, and testimony, this collection invites you to explore both the tremendous suffering and radiant possibilities of living: “watch me swallow / the hardest thing / my body has made / & live.”