one of my favorites from yesterday

Here's the link to the piece on arts-based and creative methods in environmental research: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

I have a short piece, "Arts-Based Environmental Research," in this nifty new & open access Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research"-- over 40 contributions to inspire all kinds of researchers to mix it up! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #greensky

No prairie too small! Madison parks and engineering landcare on Starkweather Creek path includes managed burning to clear detritus, nourish soil, and support fire-loving pollinator friendly plants 🔥❤️🐝🦋🐦‍⬛🌼

the alacrity of obedience going on all around just overwhelms

Submit to the Wisconsin Writers Awards by Feb 7! Open to any writers in Wisconsin—or who lived here a good while -- and who published work in 2024. Book length work ($1000) short-form in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry ($500) plus more! #booksky #poetrysky artlitlab.org/programs/wwa

*sigh* this just about sums it all up right now...

I haven't finished this book yet, but so far it's fitting company for this dark moment. Nayler's world is an appropriately dystopian one, especially its imagining of corporate AI off the rails, but his creative mind-expanding writing on our top-down, mind-body divide is the perfect antidote.🐙

More recent events in the story include individual people trying to resist this change, to try to protect what they've built and have personally invested along this shoreline. Much of the rest is actually public land.

Yesterday I took a shoreline walk on a nearby frozen lake with a friend. He pointed out how the bending trunks of trees reminded him of the level of soil that has eroded away here since he started hanging here in the '80s. It's the beginning of story...