Bethany Rydmark 🌻

landscape architect. circumnavigator. deep roots in Oregon. “always wants a smorgasbord of opportunities and delights.” lurk both ways.

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

“…might be gone for a year or ten…”

https://t.co/W1lu9tvRIk

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In your lifetime, how many chairs have you seen sitting by the curb, would you say?

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

@orhumanities @j_woolington I just finished reading the Purple Prairie article and it hit me straight in the heart. Thank you! I’m eager to get a copy of @j_woolington’s book next. I grew up in the Willamette Valley among the old oaks and think often about the intermingled plant communities & human stories.

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@BudgetTraveller Ohh, this makes me (fiercely) miss Laos!

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I’ll give myself a deadline of solstice. 🥶

I’ll give myself a deadline of Friday before Christmas. 🥶

(This afternoon: I’ll give myself a deadline of NYE. 🤷🏼‍♀️)

I guess I’ll give myself a lifeline and say screw it—all can wait. Time to rest.

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

A lovely example of possibility:

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

The story offers several lessons. My favorite is that learning is just a profound mystery involving the whole person, and that nobody can say in advance or in the abstract how it may happen. Growth like this is possible (I testify), but the key is to be open to its manifestation.

[tern @1goodtern]

In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that the lion doesn't care what you believe, the lion cares whether you *care*.

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I’m going to imagine he also thanked every American who sent packages of sunflower seeds to the Russian embassy in Washington D.C. 😏🌻 #Zelensky

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

The Wexford Carol, Ireland's oldest carol dating back to the 15th century. Christmas carols here all this week 🎄

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

@aarikdanielsen Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting putting it together. A good playlist is a gift 🎁🎶

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

World Cupping, and hot cocoa-ing, and baking (cappuccino pavlova this time), and seven little third grade girls making pomanders to the soundtrack of @aarikdanielsen’s Warm Lights for the Holiday Season: https://t.co/AeqWzxLEcu

Cheer is here 🍊☕️🎄🎶⚽️✨

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

@courtneyellis I’m there—looking forward to finding you!

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@annette_wagoner This is beautiful and thoughtful. What a treasure. Your friends and neighbors should know how lucky they are!

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

@Nigel_Cowburn @BRVogt I left my landscape architecture job and spent several years’ savings to fund a 12 month trip around the world. Lived out of a backpack. Made friends with serendipity. Encountered countless ecologies and materials, absorbed inspiration, let my perspectives change. Worth it.

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@BrandonDRhodes @MultCoLib Ah, congrats on the move! I didn’t realize you headed south. I have fond memories of living in Eugene—and going to their library 💚

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

@Nigel_Cowburn Yes! I took a landscape theory class from Simon Swaffield at Lincoln Uni back in 2004, and that essay remains an influential lesson. I was just Monday recommending it to a colleague. Showing just enough intention and care helps people embrace healthier patterns.

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@BrandonDRhodes It’s only a two week wait on the Libby app to get it free from @MultCoLib!

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@eofallthings I’d be reaching for more right this very moment if the box wasn’t locked up out in my studio… 😅

[Bethany Rydmark 🌻 @bethanyrydmark]

My special kind of self sabotage is doling out pedialyte and bone broth to members of my household while I go on eating See’s Famous Old Time CANDIES™ somehow hoping I escape the plague.