Bonus when said friends arrive bearing beautiful and resonant gifts. 🙏

“The national flower of Ukraine has grown into a symbol of sovereignty and courage—the sunflower. I see it as a lovely symbol of victory over tyranny.” ~ @victorygardenoftomorrow 🌻

However it’s worded, one thing I know for sure is that my wife - who manages a farm, drives the hell out of a skid steer and fixes a mean fence - is a far more valuable participant in the I Know a Guy gift and exchange economy than I. 🤓

Interested … but a few thousand kilometres out of the way to join. 😉

A truly wonderful read - content and style both - for any cyclist, past, present or future, from Nic Morales on @bikepackingcom.bsky.social: bikepacking.com/plog/has-mar.... Image via the Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive.

… I feel disappointed, unsettled and reflective about the state of thinking, creativity and discourse, along multiple contours.

So here are some photos taken this morning of flowers my wife and I have cultivated and cared for.