Kate
Yesterday for reasons I was driving on a highway for an hour with no company or car sound possible, nothing but thought.
Which turned out to be “this moment”, over and over. Late afternoon light, a time that passed, and me, a bundle of cells capable of thought, thinking “this moment”.
Today my daughter asked what the value is in living and I realised it’s just this: we have all met each other in this moment. Bundles of cells, capable of communication. Extraordinary.
Kate
@lauraritchie @dadegroot Our cat wears a bell and birds laugh at her.
Kate
@mhawksey @HEllis @lauraritchie Hey! I find I come here intensively at intervals. I used to feel that was wrong and now I realise it’s just how I am here. I was measuring myself by a different stick.
Francie
YOU ONLY KEEP IT IF IT BRINGS YOU JOY
Alex
I take a lot of pictures of the sky and usually people ignore me or look askance but as I took one today a woman near me in the parking lot stopped, looked at the sky, and said “My god, it is beautiful, isn’t it,” and took a picture of her own
d'Errata
I like the the message they're making in this editor's letter. It tells me Briar Patch Magazine is acutely aware of the big picture.
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/just-transition-a-vision-and-a-plan
And, my idol-of-worship, is that a complete lack of third-party advertising? Respectable. More like this, please. If you're in Canada, give them some coins.
Seriously, if you know of other regional climate crisis-oriented periodicals not relying on ad-tech, point them out.
Kate
@raye I have this and I didn’t know its name. Thank you!
Algot
#Creativity is a self-filling pitcher. No matter how often we pour our ideas onto the page, the blog, the fediverse, new ones or, at least, provoking variations fill the temporary void.
As a corollary, avoiding the step of pouring out the ideas can have the effect of merely bottling and capping the output, trapping the creative process itself.
Moral: Don't hold it in. Pour your ideas freely. Who cares if nobody else cares! And there's a chance someone will make something useful in the end!
Kate
Having the most Australian gardening day ever. Redbacks. Redback nests. Have retreated to the house to stop shuddering.
Kate
@martinfeld at the moment, just in her dreams!
Ana Ulin 😻
I reject the idea that wanting everyone to have acceptable healthcare is somehow "becoming radicalized".
We should be asking instead what happened to those to not want universal healthcare. What kind of trauma damaged their ability to empathize?
RT @AllOnMedicare@twitter.com
When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AllOnMedicare/status/1124042436345569286
Kate
I read this out to her. You’ve hit the jackpot: the quiet lesbian bar is a cover for deep magic.
Kate
@Sylvhem I’ll take a picture of it for you tonight. I think it has to be dark for the full astonishment to show itself. Our house glows like a spaceship. A spaceship for quiet lesbians.
Kate
So my daughter has bought a large neon sign that says GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS from the local junk yard. Apparently it was in a Jackie Chan movie. She says it’s part of her long term plan to open a bar for introverts and quiet lesbians.
Meanwhile our house is bathed in its pink and orange glow and we are all pretty happy about this.
Kate
@jgmac1106 What a beautiful photograph. Thank you for sharing it.
RobinHood
If you’re prepping for the apocalypse so that you can survive alone while your neighbors are starving,
then you’re the reason we’re going to have an apocalypse in the first place
Kate
@GwenfarsGarden @scottishwobbly @lauraritchie @blamb @dogtrax @tellio @socalledunitedstates yes I just went back and found the idea and boosted it. The largest community library ever seen is a delight.
Driving back through my town at sunrise again today I started noticing differently all the smallest signs of life.
Kate
@lauraritchie @blamb @dogtrax @tellio This one came via @GwenfarsGarden, in fact I think both did.
Kate
@lauraritchie @blamb @dogtrax @tellio And #florespondence is bringing me joy.
Pop-up communities at small scale seem like radical acts for these times.
Kate
I am so here for #ourstreets, what a lovely hashtag. @lauraritchie @blamb @dogtrax @tellio I think you’ll like it.
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