midnightembers
@tomschloegel.bsky.social
Stories will still be telling themselves at sunrise
Ithaca, NY
[Also posting for @deepadaptation.bsky.social]
Ithaca, NY
[Also posting for @deepadaptation.bsky.social]
*It doesn't have to be this way...*
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
June 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
*It doesn't have to be this way...*
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
I think mom topped this chestnut. (I built a taller fence after taking the video).
You must give off a good vibe 🌝
You must give off a good vibe 🌝
June 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I think mom topped this chestnut. (I built a taller fence after taking the video).
You must give off a good vibe 🌝
You must give off a good vibe 🌝
Former forest beginning a path towards food…
May 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Former forest beginning a path towards food…
“A play with no men and no boats” !!
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
May 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“A play with no men and no boats” !!
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
There’s no exclusion zone….
May 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There’s no exclusion zone….
Resource war on.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
May 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Resource war on.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
Two years ago this was a jungle of privet, honeysuckle, barberry and more. Saving pines that we can, and adding birch, chestnut, dogwood, cherry, plus understory food for us and birds. Dead elm down today - looks like 34 rings. What will the world be like 30 years from now?
April 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Two years ago this was a jungle of privet, honeysuckle, barberry and more. Saving pines that we can, and adding birch, chestnut, dogwood, cherry, plus understory food for us and birds. Dead elm down today - looks like 34 rings. What will the world be like 30 years from now?
Get yourself a neighbor who lends you his tractor to clean up after the storm.
April 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Get yourself a neighbor who lends you his tractor to clean up after the storm.
A healthy local ecosystem, and we’re doing what we can to assist.
April 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A healthy local ecosystem, and we’re doing what we can to assist.
Slept on “Poetry is not a Luxury” and coffee with “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Yes and yes. “Death is the final silence.” “Of what had I ever been afraid.” Feelings as spawning ground for radical, daring ideas. Poetry leading to change, a bridge to meaningful action.
April 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Slept on “Poetry is not a Luxury” and coffee with “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Yes and yes. “Death is the final silence.” “Of what had I ever been afraid.” Feelings as spawning ground for radical, daring ideas. Poetry leading to change, a bridge to meaningful action.
From Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
April 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
From Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
Good clean fun; an antidote.
April 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Good clean fun; an antidote.
The whole passage from which these three sentences come is remarkable.
March 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The whole passage from which these three sentences come is remarkable.
"I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
March 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
Cardinal waits after squirrel jumps the line…
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Cardinal waits after squirrel jumps the line…
Back in the garden at last, and in shirtsleeves.
March 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Back in the garden at last, and in shirtsleeves.
Humor is the way.
March 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Humor is the way.
It depends on *exactly when* you imagined the future in the past. And that journey is always continuing.
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It depends on *exactly when* you imagined the future in the past. And that journey is always continuing.
Anticipating the season’s change: a fig leaf in the morning sun, with snow on the ground still, and 70 paw paw seeds now in pots.
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Anticipating the season’s change: a fig leaf in the morning sun, with snow on the ground still, and 70 paw paw seeds now in pots.
Some food for us inserted into a spot that's teeming with food and life for others. We left an abundant patch of wildflowers in the middle of the garden...and planted chestnuts among nurse logs in an overgrown patch...thriving and growing fast if hard to see. A shame a storm snapped that Elm though.
February 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some food for us inserted into a spot that's teeming with food and life for others. We left an abundant patch of wildflowers in the middle of the garden...and planted chestnuts among nurse logs in an overgrown patch...thriving and growing fast if hard to see. A shame a storm snapped that Elm though.
“To those who will not admit morality without a deity to validate it, or spirituality of which man is not the measure…Lao Tzu’s counsel…must seem incomprehensible, or illegitimate, or very troubling indeed.”
- Ursula Le Guin (her note from her translation of verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching)
- Ursula Le Guin (her note from her translation of verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching)
February 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“To those who will not admit morality without a deity to validate it, or spirituality of which man is not the measure…Lao Tzu’s counsel…must seem incomprehensible, or illegitimate, or very troubling indeed.”
- Ursula Le Guin (her note from her translation of verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching)
- Ursula Le Guin (her note from her translation of verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching)