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Zine Review: “Processes: A Meditation” by Terra Olvr

Posted by strange on February 6, 2019
Zine Review: “Processes: A Meditation” by Terra Olvr

There are many different ways to meditate that have been proven to calm your anxiety, depression or other mind obstacles, and to ground you. Some people like guided ones, where a person is speaking for the entire time and tells them what to do or visualize. Others enjoy practicing in silence, and simply letting the mind journey and wander to wherever it needs to explore. “Processes: A Meditation,” a zine by Terra Olvr (she/they) that I bought at their San Francisco Zine Fest table in 2018, is an inbetween option.

For each set of pages, there’s one philosophical sentence on the right-hand page that seems to both acknowledge daily mistakes and struggles, and to encourage taking healthier choices of self-love. And on the left-hand page, there’s a drawing representing what it would look like in a meditative physical form or “how the verses live in the body,” said Olvr.

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The Strange is Beautiful 2017 Goals and Recap

Posted by strange on January 1, 2017
The Strange is Beautiful 2017 Goals and Recap

It’s easy to lose sight of why you started something – the genuine, root, pure catalyst. Below I’ve revisited the root reasons I started The Strange is Beautiful (TSIB), the original goals and the actions I’ve taken, which goals have changed and the future goals for TSIB in 2017 and beyond <3 <3 <3

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The Strange is Beautiful ~ will be at ~ SF Zine Fest 2016 !!

Posted by strange on August 24, 2016
The Strange is Beautiful ~ will be at ~ SF Zine Fest 2016 !!

Hi SF loves and zinester pals! The Strange is Beautiful will be at SF Zine Fest this year :) I’ll be in town Friday night until Tuesday 5 p.m. so if you want to kick it, email me at strangeisbeauty@gmail.com. Our table will look something like this:

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