For more than 3,000 years, communities in Oxfordshire, England have climbed a hill to chalk the White Horse of Uffington.
Without their work with hammers and buckets of chalk, this larger-than-life figure would disappear into the grass within 20 years. Archaeologists suspect this may have been by design: a monument that requires a community to maintain it is also a monument that continuously creates one.
The horse has outlasted empires thanks to community and multigenerational dedication. It is an argument that some of the most durable things we can build are the habits of showing up.
Ahmed Kabil shares the full story on Long Now Ideas: https://t.co/XEWoOF7uPV
"I've updated the plan in-memory..."
what? no, update the actual planning document, not the platonic concept that only exists intact until the next compaction!