Steph
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Steph
@fieldandtable.bsky.social
Finding a life somewhere between an ascetic monk and a drunken bard.

They/them // queer ecology // 🌈🍄
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Couple this, from the marvel, @mariapopova.bsky.social, with @emergencemagazine.bsky.social's fascinating December 2nd interview of @zoeschlanger.bsky.social, author of The Light Eaters. Treasures, both of these resources. Mind-opening and wondrous.
“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

Fascinating read on the new science of plant intelligence and the mystery of what makes a mind
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 7, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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One day, your skull will be as empty as a conch shell on a fence post,
full of wind and gentle quiet.

Today, it’s a cauldron of ghosts.
Flesh and electricity.
Water and memory.
A machine that makes reality.

Now. Here. Your skull is the garden where fact flowers into meaning.
December 7, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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“’The Serviceberry’ as a slim volume arose at the inspiration of Chris Richards, my editor at Scribner. He had read the essay in Emergence magazine and was convinced that these ideas need to be in public conversation.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
Robin Wall Kimmerer Is Learning From ‘Rest as Resistance’
“It is an important idea and a serious challenge for me, at which I consistently fail,” says the author of the best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass.” Her new book is “The Serviceberry.”
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Plants miraculously eat light. Yet here we are, seemingly convinced not only of their dullness, but that humans are the best and brightest beings on Earth? In this week's newsletter, climate journalist @zoeschlanger.bsky.social dispels such delusions. mailchi.mp/emergencemag...
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM