Poem: Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass,...

November 26, 2022 0

November 19, 2022 Bark

[envira-gallery id='11375'] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4a3O-rAws

November 22, 2022 0

Wild Mushroom Dinner by Swallowtail Supper Club

Focusing on experiences as gifts, we decided to give Dad the experience of an incredible Wild Mushroom Dinner by Swallowtail Culinary Adventures. This 6 course foraged menu was certainly a treat for us and a unique experience that has expanded our fungi nerding out from learning in the forest and...

November 20, 2022 0

November 14, 2022 Needle Foliage

[envira-gallery id='10422'] Norway spruce Picea abies The fastest-growing of all spruces, the norway spruce (Picea abies) makes for a good roosting spot for owls and hawks. Its wood is used for paper, construction lumber, and musical instruments, and its needles can be used to brew spruce beer. It is also...

November 14, 2022 0

What Is Silent?

Rocks, millions of years of quiet pulsing from the earth’s core to the surface. Snow as it floats in the cold air to meet the other icy crystals on the ground. Movement of clouds, almost indiscernible in their glacial movement. Leaves of our indoor jungle plants bending and moving to...

November 8, 2022 0

Quote: Knowledge – bell hooks

To bear the burden of memory one must willingly journey to places long uninhabited, searching the debris of history for traces of the unforgettable, all knowledge of which has been suppressed.BELL HOOKS

November 6, 2022 0

Reading: Dark Showers (Hima Batavia)

https://himabatavia.substack.com/p/76-dark-showers And some notes on zen cleaning and co-living by Hima Batavia The art of well-being is truly the dance between my needs and our needs, which can then be wound up in concentric circles of feeling good and guilty, which are further wound up in deeper impressions on where...

October 29, 2022 0