"Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone."
-Everything is Waiting for You, by David Whyte

#poemoftheday #quotes

I got a LEGO set for Christmas and:
a.) now I have a plant adapted for my low-light room and my tendency to forget to care for it
b.) it turns out LEGO is really good at instructional design and maybe I'll take a leaf out of their book.
#adultlearning #pedagogy

Each of us contributes incrementally to a future we may never see. If it is in our lifetime, if our science, or our contribution, is part of a practical solution, it will likely be one sentence in a vast tome with contributions from thousands of authors across dozens of (not just science) fields.

Love this quote: "We find installing a clean energy source to be one of the expressions of our faith. The numbers show it is wise financial stewardship, but it also is wise earth stewardship."

There are ways to talk about #climatechange across partisan and belief divides.

in which Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield will just...not pay for anesthesia if a surgery goes over a set time limit? (this video is obviously a skit; the news behind it is real.)

go on long walks and make beautiful friends who send you #poetry #caminodesantiago

(what resembles the grave but isn't, by Anne Boyer)

Of all states with food waste bans, “Massachusetts alone has reduced landfill waste,” according to a study published in September in the research journal Science.

Love this suggestion for ag education: "Expansive learning, where a group of people with different experiences and perspectives work on shared problems and jointly develop new knowledge or tools to address them." (Mukute 2010, citing Engeström, 1999 and Edwards, 2005)

#pedagogy #adultlearning

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

-Our Real Work, Wendell Berry #poemoftheday

Looking for a forestry career? The Society of American Foresters has updated their job postings. San Francisco to New York City, and everywhere in between.
#forestry #jobs #careers
careercenter.eforester.org/jobseeker/se...

This acknowledgement made my throat catch: "The authors are grateful to...Ukrainian farmers, who, despite the war, are doing everything possible to prevent a food crisis in the world." (Nifatova et al. 2023)

Things far away still affect us (both ethically and pragmatically). #foodsecurity

“Of all the problems you may meet on your journey, it will be people who are the greatest danger. But it will also be people to whom you must turn if ever you are in need of aid.”

-A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park

#quotes #quoteoftheday #pottery #booksthataregreat