Went to Death Faire at The Plant in Pittsboro this weekend. Paperhand Puppet Intervention led a drum circle. Cool event showing how important it is to make space for communal grief and joy.

At the artist reception for Death Faire at the Plant w/ @dangerwood.bsky.social and other artists selected for the exhibition. Fun event and great art on display. Current favorite (other than Sarah’s) is Millicent Gomez’s magical broom piece Threshold of the Ancestors www.theplantnc.com/deathfaire

Deer season.

Feeling grateful for the landscape. @dangerwood.bsky.social got our first deer of the year and we’re trying to be more deliberate about connecting to the forest through our stomachs. Deer bone broth. Hickory nuts for banana bread. Muscadine grapes. Chicken of the woods. Beech nuts. Goldenrod tea.

Paperhand Puppet is the best www.paperhandpuppet.org

Me and @dangerwood.bsky.social are scouting for remote public land in the Appalachian Mountains to hunt black bear. We’re experimenting with paddleboards for access and packing out. Hunting WNC without dogs is difficult post-Helene climate disaster, but it seems very rewarding.

Bug world.

Five years ago. Peak pandemic, I tried linocut printing. The ideas behind these images still feel like characters in my my life.

Today @dangerwood.bsky.social talked about art’s ability to bring people into relationship with the landscape. I spoke about the nature writer’s role through history and the challenge of defining nature writing, when everything is ‘Nature’ . blueridgebartram.org/bartram250/

We are here! Sarah and I are both on panels to talk about the purpose and the practice of art, writing and natural history. Super excited to be in this place with so much biodiversity and beauty to mark William Bartram’s 250th anniversary of trekking across the southern Appalachians.

My partner @dangerwood.bsky.social is speaking and has art on exhibit next weekend at a symposium celebrating naturalist William Bartram’s trek across the Southeast. This is in the exhibit, Contact 2, colored pencil and ink on paper. Check out Bartram and the event blueridgebartram.org/bartram250/

New episode: Fairies, land spirits. Co-creation and relationship. Episode art by @dangerwood.bsky.social

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See us live, as Sarah and I interview Dr. Robert Pyle about butterflies, Bigfoot and his band with Nirvana's Kris Novoselic. You can join our Zoom meeting at 6pm ET here us06web.zoom.us/j/5670542004?p…

Truly epic finds washing up on our urban creek’s sandbars these past couple weeks.

Nature writer Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt joins us to talk about bird synchronicities, the communion of saints, and love for Earthsea, etymology and corvid culture. Lyanda is the author of six incredible books. thecampfiresedge.com/2025/02/22/s...
Raven art by @dangerwood.bsky.social

Plantin onions and watchin wrastlin. It’s been a day.

I’m excited that my 2018 book Rust Belt Arcana is available again in print with @beltpublishing.bsky.social I’m offering some free Zoom tarot readings in the next week to get back in practice of reading for other people. Hit me up or reply if you want one and we’ll get it scheduled.

I’m inspired by Brent Martin’s poems in our last episode. Our mutual friend, John Lane introduced us. I went back to John’s poems and they are so good. John was on the podcast as well, here thecampfiresedge.com/2024/09/11/e... Love that we to get to combine poetry, paranormal experience and nature