{"id":45941,"date":"2026-04-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45941"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:08:04","slug":"whats-in-my-now-camille-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-camille-newsom\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Camille Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Camille Newsom<\/strong>&nbsp;is a poet, artist, educator, and land steward who weaves creativity, collaboration, and community-building into her work. She facilitates Offers and Needs markets, writes custom poems for strangers on a manual Smith Corona typewriter, and loves exploring all the nooks and crannies where the meta and mundane meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>LINKS:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/camillenewsom\">Linktree<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cameljonescards\">Instagram<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/camillenewsom.substack.com\/\">Substack<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/04\/wimb-camille-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45942\" width=\"589\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/04\/wimb-camille-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/04\/wimb-camille-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/04\/wimb-camille-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/04\/wimb-camille.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ayinpress.org\/selah-a-bayo-akomolafe-reader\/\">Selah: A B\u00e1y\u00f2 Ak\u00f3mol\u00e1f\u00e9 Reader<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ayinpress.org\/selah-a-bayo-akomolafe-reader\/\">&nbsp;<\/a>\u2014 \u201cWhen times are urgent, we must slow down.\u201d This book is an essential challenger of all human conditioning, an existential thirst trap, tool, a teacher, a gift.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitneydawn.com\/zoa\">The Zone of Authenticity: Authentic Connection Cards<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 This deck of cards has helped me reconnect with my mother and father after years of distance. We spend one hour a month picking cards from the deck, answering the questions, listening to one another, sitting with each other\u2019s unfolding authenticity. It\u2019s playful at times, heavy at times, and an invitation to soften into new shapes of old relationships.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockbluelight.com\/collections\/computer-glasses\/products\/daymax-oscar-blue-light-glasses-tortoise\">Blue-light Blocking Glasses for Daytime Use<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockbluelight.com\/collections\/computer-glasses\/products\/daymax-oscar-blue-light-glasses-tortoise\">&nbsp;<\/a>\u2014 As someone who spends hours a day looking at screens and suffers from headaches and migraines, these blue-light blocking glasses are a true lifesaver&#8230;and they are cute! Yes, sometimes it\u2019s awkward to be the one on the video call with yellow-lensed glasses, but don\u2019t we all need a simple way to practice giving fewer sh*ts what others think?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>DIGITAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theshadowedarchive.substack.com\/p\/an-existential-guide-to-making-friends?r=azdf5&amp;triedRedirect=true\">An Existential Guide to: Making Friends<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;For you\u2014you who some days (maybe most days) wish you were moss, you who find eye contact with animals pleasureful and eye contact with humans uncomfortable, you who struggle to answer the ice breaker question because you are every color, you who, at your core, only want to be held and cared for.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You%2C_the_Living\">You, The Living<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>A black comedy that begins with this quote from Goethe\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Roman Elegies,&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cTherefore rejoice, you, the living, in your lovely warm bed, until Lethe\u2019s cold wave wets your fleeing foot.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>hard on the systems\u2026soft on the people\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a good reminder for us all right now and always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsinmynow.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to get\u00a0What\u2019s in my NOW?\u00a0a week early in your inbox.<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec17518-5a1f-4d72-bb4c-90894919687f_600x600.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #251<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[2389],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45943,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941\/revisions\/45943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}