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Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
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Momento mori.
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Momento mori.
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But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
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Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
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Life as a Democrat:
He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Life as a Democrat:
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I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.
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I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
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I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...
We Were Made for This
Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, a huge hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans's levees failed, as had been predicted, and much of the city went underwater. Although the authorities had issued...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...
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Once 4 billion chestnut trees spanned most of the Eastern US, before a blight destroyed them. Restoration efforts began in 1985, with story-telling as a key component. It's the most far reaching example of trees in public history in a new essay collection: 1/x
barnraisingmedia.com/the-trees-at...
barnraisingmedia.com/the-trees-at...
The Trees at the Center of Our History
From the Pequot War to the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, trees have played a central role in North American history.
barnraisingmedia.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Once 4 billion chestnut trees spanned most of the Eastern US, before a blight destroyed them. Restoration efforts began in 1985, with story-telling as a key component. It's the most far reaching example of trees in public history in a new essay collection: 1/x
barnraisingmedia.com/the-trees-at...
barnraisingmedia.com/the-trees-at...
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The Mounds, Townhouses and The Sacred Fire - Some say that the mounds were first built by another people.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The Mounds, Townhouses and The Sacred Fire - Some say that the mounds were first built by another people.
August 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The Mounds, Townhouses and The Sacred Fire - Some say that the mounds were first built by another people.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The Mounds, Townhouses and The Sacred Fire - Some say that the mounds were first built by another people.
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📸 The Pygmy Nuthatch is the smallest of the 3 nuthatches in western North America. It can weigh only 0.3 to 0.4 ounces, and they will always roost at night in a communal group which may contain up to 100 birds.
Or 40 ounces. 🤔
🕉️ Now you know. 🪶
#TheLittleThings
#TinyTuesday
#Birding
Or 40 ounces. 🤔
🕉️ Now you know. 🪶
#TheLittleThings
#TinyTuesday
#Birding
August 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
📸 The Pygmy Nuthatch is the smallest of the 3 nuthatches in western North America. It can weigh only 0.3 to 0.4 ounces, and they will always roost at night in a communal group which may contain up to 100 birds.
Or 40 ounces. 🤔
🕉️ Now you know. 🪶
#TheLittleThings
#TinyTuesday
#Birding
Or 40 ounces. 🤔
🕉️ Now you know. 🪶
#TheLittleThings
#TinyTuesday
#Birding
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Actually, sometimes the news is good (haven't read yet).
July 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Actually, sometimes the news is good (haven't read yet).
"Storms make sense of shelter. Shelter is an issue of privilege."
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1969)
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1969)
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Storms make sense of shelter. Shelter is an issue of privilege."
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1969)
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Beacon Press, 1969)
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Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part.
But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can—and behaving as beautifully as one can—under completely impossible circumstances.
~ Toni Morrison
But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can—and behaving as beautifully as one can—under completely impossible circumstances.
~ Toni Morrison
July 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part.
But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can—and behaving as beautifully as one can—under completely impossible circumstances.
~ Toni Morrison
But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can—and behaving as beautifully as one can—under completely impossible circumstances.
~ Toni Morrison
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Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
…
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
~ W. H. Auden
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
…
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
~ W. H. Auden
July 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
…
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
~ W. H. Auden
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
…
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
~ W. H. Auden
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Why, it contains no king.
June 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why, it contains no king.
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Well that explains it.
New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole
Black hole cosmology suggests our entire universe formed inside a black hole from another universe
www.independent.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Well that explains it.
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Es sollte eigentlich klar sein, aber TON AN. Und bis zum Schluss gucken.
I was recently asked if I had ever captured wolves howling on camera. This is one of my all-time favorite captures.
March 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Es sollte eigentlich klar sein, aber TON AN. Und bis zum Schluss gucken.
"To harm a person is to receive something from him. What? What have we gained (and what will have to be repaid) when we have done harm? We have gained in importance. We have expanded. We have filled an emptiness in ourselves by creating one in someone else.
1/3
1/3
March 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"To harm a person is to receive something from him. What? What have we gained (and what will have to be repaid) when we have done harm? We have gained in importance. We have expanded. We have filled an emptiness in ourselves by creating one in someone else.
1/3
1/3
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Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
~ W.H. Auden
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
~ W.H. Auden
March 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
~ W.H. Auden
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
~ W.H. Auden
"when it all makes sense
'deciphers'
a great crystal forest
enchanting
terrifying
because it seems only a sneeze away
from incomprehensible chaos
whose lineaments we are
only beginning to
decipher..."
-Anselm Hollo, "Bright Moments"
from Outlying Districts (Coffee House Press, 1990)
'deciphers'
a great crystal forest
enchanting
terrifying
because it seems only a sneeze away
from incomprehensible chaos
whose lineaments we are
only beginning to
decipher..."
-Anselm Hollo, "Bright Moments"
from Outlying Districts (Coffee House Press, 1990)
March 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"when it all makes sense
'deciphers'
a great crystal forest
enchanting
terrifying
because it seems only a sneeze away
from incomprehensible chaos
whose lineaments we are
only beginning to
decipher..."
-Anselm Hollo, "Bright Moments"
from Outlying Districts (Coffee House Press, 1990)
'deciphers'
a great crystal forest
enchanting
terrifying
because it seems only a sneeze away
from incomprehensible chaos
whose lineaments we are
only beginning to
decipher..."
-Anselm Hollo, "Bright Moments"
from Outlying Districts (Coffee House Press, 1990)