Welcome to Kranky Town!
There once was a place called Kranky town. The reason for its name, as you may have guessed, is the folks who lived there were, well kranky. Now there are lots of reasons to be kranky. But, the reason folks in this town were kranky had a lot to do with their thumbs.
You see, the folks who lived in kranky town rarely gave their thumbs a chance to truly live. By living I mean do the things that thumbs do like hold a friend’s hand, strum a guitar, read an old fashioned book (made of paper and binding), or simply wave and say, “Hi.” Instead, they spent a lot of time on their human’s phones — from sun up until sun down, checking the news (so scary!), seeing what their friends are doing, and watching people make things over and over again.
After years and years of this, their thumbs just got pissed. And, stayed pissed. Now folks are kranky and live in Kranky town.
BUT, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can make your thumb happy. Happy thumb, happy life!
There are lots of ways to make your thumb happy. But, it all begins by having the courage to put down those cellphones. Here at the Kranky Thumb Collective we are working to slow our scroll and to re-member what it means to be human without those cellphones.
KRANKY MAKing
One way we can make our thumbs happy is by what we call “kranky-making” — giving our thumbs other things to do besides s-c-r-o-l-l. Below are just some of the kranky-making activities we are engaged in. Opportunities to do some kranky-making in person are in the works.
And, we’ve set up Kranky Thumb Collective YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KrankyThumbCollective where you can also learn how to do some kranky-making on your own time.
If you’d like to share some of your own kranky-making activies, please reach out and let us know. We’d love to share them with other kranky folks!
