I’ve stumbled upon a similar practice of keeping multiple notebooks going for different purposes. I’m going to incorporate some of these ideas, like the commonplace book. One that I would recommend adding to this list is a nature journal.
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Field to Film Festival. Behind the scenes, through the amaranth and sorghum fields in the Global South, rural and #Indigenous youth have documented - in their own words and ways - how #agroecology is transforming their communities

Register at
www.groundswellinternational.org/2024-field-t...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Day 6/20)
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge

‘A Gilded Chain is Still a Chain’
I made this in tribute to the medieval Unicorn Tapestries. In the final tapestry the unicorn is imprisoned under a pomegranate tree that is dripping. I imagined if she escaped, she would want to destroy the tree and its fruits!

#unicorn #art #painting #embroidery

A hiker in the northern Italian Alps has stumbled across the first trace of what scientists believe to be an entire prehistoric ecosystem, including the well-preserved footprints of reptiles & amphibians, as snow & ice melt in the climate crisis.
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Mayan canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatán coastal plain.
The ancient canals, paired with holding ponds, wr used to channel & catch freshwater species for at least 1,000 yrs or longer.
#Landscape #Archaeology
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This is the story I wrote about our unexpected butterfly visitor. #naturalist #iNat #conservation #restoration #nativeplants #butterfly

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The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.

Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social

Chickadee-dee-dee. Coloured pencil on Bristol paper. I love watching these birds feed and dart among the cattails 🙂 #birds

Ecological #overshoot is driving the inevitable #collapse of global industrial civilisation – we are using resources, and polluting, more than ecosystems can sustain. Permaculture offers a positive response, working with nature to build resilience and support biodiversity. 1/3

Be gentle with your souls my dear ones. Here’s a Mary Oliver poem to read. Here are some wise words. Here is an old oak tree. Engage in something you love. If you love hiking or birding or gardening or making art, maybe we can do something we love together soon.

We finally got some rain and the mushrooms are back! 🍄‍🟫🥰🍄

Some stunning insects from lasts month’s pollinator bioblitz at Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center.
#entomology
#wildflowers
#photography

What can you expect from me? Nature journaling and other watercolor illustrations of nature, mushrooms pictures, documentation of permaculture gardening journey and birds.