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by Calm Day
146 blocks • 2 days ago

Gardening is not just a set of tasks. It’s not restricted to backyards, courtyards, balconies. It can, and should, happen anywhere, everywhere. Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care and action. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively, and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).

– Georgina Reid, Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care

“Healing involves discomfort, but so does refusing to heal. And, over time, refusing to heal is always more painful.”

—Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands

"To seek approval is to seek dependence; to seek dependence is to lose your sense of self... That's the paradox of approval seeking: our very attempt to prove our worth and value means that we believe that our worth and value can be proven."
— Pavel Somov, "Present Perfect"

When we confront the foundations of our systems of learning and challenge the assumptions that underlie the design of culture, new opportunities for engagement between people and their environment are found waiting. Windows into the world's unlimited potential open, revealing that mediation of experience is untenable and the only limiting factor to innovation is creativity. Indeed, experimentation is always needed to find better alternatives. Without risk-taking, we'll never discover what's possible. Just as any historian of science knows, major advances in science are not made in small steps, but by leaps and bounds that are largely guided by intuition, chance, and a willingness to challenge dogmas. Often, these shifts come about by curious hobbyists. As Aristotle once stated, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Or, in other words, one should be both skeptical and open-minded, just not so open-minded that their brain falls out.

Peter McCoy, Radical Mycology, Toward a Radical Mycology (XVIII)

Peter McCoy

An ecological understanding allows us to identify "things"—rain, cloud, river—at the same time that it reminds us that these identities are fluid. Even mountains erode, and the ground below us moves in giant plates. It reminds us that—while it's useful to have a word for that thing called a cloud—when we really get down to it, all we can really point to is a series of flows and relationships that sometimes intersect and hold together long enough to be a "cloud."


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Natural
by Calm Day
42 blocks • 8 months ago
Spiral migration
Spiral migration
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“Los Caracoles Pass — or “The Snail’s Pass” — is a twisting mountain road located in a remote section of the Andes Mountains on the Chilean side of the border with Argentina. The path climbs to an elevation of 10,419 feet (3,175 m), has no roadside safety barriers, and is frequented by large trucks.”
“Los Caracoles Pass — or “The Snail’s P…

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