For the last month or so the Monardas, or bee balms, have been blooming at our urban homestead. We have five different cultivars sprinkled throughout our food forest, pollinator and herb gardens ranging in color from lilac through magenta to cherry red and in height from about 12 inches to 24. The leaves and flowersContinue reading “Hummingbird Musings OR Why can’t we see that the whole world is a bountiful garden?”
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A Positive Sense of a New Political Order OR Gifts from the Future
Ya’ll, things have not at all been themselves since last I wrote which is a consequence of [so many things and] the current administration doing exactly what they said they would do and my having to live through the world coming to terms with the turbulent soup of predictions of our worst nightmares coming true.Continue reading “A Positive Sense of a New Political Order OR Gifts from the Future”
Decoupling Pleasure from Consumerism OR happily buying less stuff
On Saturdays [especially when it is not gardening season] I sleep in and read long-form journalism. This Saturday it was the Atlantic. Among the political stuff [which I am giving myself permission to skim or skip right now] I encountered this article from the Atlantic on the new Amazon Haul which I found perversely fascinating. Continue reading “Decoupling Pleasure from Consumerism OR happily buying less stuff”
I have permission to not fix everything broken about the world with this essay
When processing that first Trump victory in 2016, I sought counsel from my grandfather, who at the time I considered to be the wisest person I knew. This was before Trump had even taken office, when the damage he might do was still considered hypothetical or hyperbole by lots of people. But my grandfather, anContinue reading “I have permission to not fix everything broken about the world with this essay”
Slow Fashion and other hashtags
A number of things coincided within the previous month of March that made it a good time for a reflection on my wardrobe. The first thing was #mendingMarch. If you are not spending time in my corner of the Internet, you could be forgiven for not knowing that March is the month for mending garments.Continue reading “Slow Fashion and other hashtags”
Reality, Mysticism and Psychedelia
The first time I ever “tripped” I was sitting in a university classroom. I went on a mystical journey to a time before time, where the totality of what would have been existence represented itself to me as a tableau my mind could comprehend: a committee meeting to choose the laws of physics where godContinue reading “Reality, Mysticism and Psychedelia”
Animal Husbandry, OR Yes, I think we are going to eat these
On our urban farm we already have chickens, but these chickens are for eggs. Yesterday, we got chickens for meat. In some ways, thinking of the adorable balls of fluff cheeping under their heat light in our boiler room, it seems unthinkable that in September we are intending to turn them into chicken, the meat.Continue reading “Animal Husbandry, OR Yes, I think we are going to eat these”
Agriculture: we’re doing it wrong
Humans have very short memories and attention spans. This is by design [not intelligent design, but evolutionary design, which is to say natural selection by the environment for fitness]. Humans evolved as an upright hominid species that exploits technology [which includes both physical technology and complex symbolic systems like language, culture and religion] to inhabitContinue reading “Agriculture: we’re doing it wrong”
The Oracle of Z 