midnightembers
@tomschloegel
Stories will still be telling themselves at sunrise
I already know everything about my own deeply held, subjectively based, passions and opinions. I want to know yours! Tell me - show me - how you’re based. I can’t necessarily grok myself only from my vantage. Your perspective may shed light on mine. +1 to infinite perspectives.
Like great-grandmother and grandmother like granddaughter. Intergenerational installment of you can just do things. Photo on right is Betty and Chickie dipping the chair they’re recaning in the lake to dampen the cane. Also: Chickie is a such a classic nickname.
If I was 20 this is what I’d do.
Seems to me that those in college or applying ought to be completely reconsidering the consensus trance leading them astray rather than towards skilled jobs that require hands and brains (and not college degrees). 20-ish new grads could also pivot, be their own bosses, make bank.
And they’ll keep doing it for the right reason, no laurels needed, no guarantee of heaven either for that matter. AND, the financial spoils will keep going to the wrong people. Caregivers should be top of the pyramid.
There are a lot of people out there doing great charity work whose names you will never know bc they know their reward is in heaven.
Saw a monarch butterfly the past three days and really appreciated the sightings. Wondered: is it the same one or several & will I see them next year...
The biomass of this plant is hard to truly fathom without hands-on collection of the bamboo stalks. I just cut out 30 poles, the tallest was 25 feet.
“Systems that focus purely on efficiency are incredibly fragile” 🔥 (Headline example lately is the rare earth trade war)
Peter is not calling for US autarky or standing against free trade. He is asking that we look at our resilience (and our health) as a nation. Systems that focus purely on efficiency are incredibly fragile. Listen to Peter.
In the US, federal versus state versus municipal rule making is capricious, erratic, unreliable. I’d like a local governance structure based on citizens assembly with the national/international “state” allowed limited human rights based jurisdiction.
I basically no longer think that "capitalism vs. socialism" is an interesting question, and the more useful question that subsumes it is "what governance structures should we have, and in which situations?"
“Transform yourself to transform the world.” - Grace Lee Boggs
I think a lot of modern leftism is a complete disinterest in anything resembling sacrifice combined with a deep seated need to confirm their own self image as rebellious
I get it, all of you wanting to quietly exist in your sweet little shire. Me too. Paradise. But the world isn’t, and won’t be, content to leave you alone there. What to do about that?
Example 867 of why our electeds are not leaders.
Agree. That little uptick at far right = US is finally on the right track But history will not be kind to US leaders who squandered an insurmountable lead, increasing US debt by $31T in 26 yrs on wars & bailouts while not growing US electricity generation AT ALL from 1999-2020.
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
When the comfrey is growing like wildfire and you’re married to a detail-oriented teacher.
Lyme striking hard at home and among neighbors. Same as previous years. The malaria of the northeast…
Wild cherry seeds collected. See you next February for sowing. Planning far ahead for more spring blossoms like this! Prunus avium
