@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.
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.
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.
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 🍊☕️🎄🎶⚽️✨
@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.
@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 💚
@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.
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.