The commitment to finish…I get it. Have you watched Bon Appetite, Your Majesty? Delightful Korean series, I’d you need a palate cleanser (literally)

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard has an existential moment trying to answer her neighbor’s innocent question about why she was trying to explain Whitehead to her journal when in fact she would rather be doing literally anything else 😂🎯💯

Indeed

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Roshi Joan's powerful talk she offered at the Vigil for our immigrant neighbors and standing strong with Minneapolis. The talk can be found at this link fpcsantafe.org/live-streams/ and note the time when she offers her words. 1:14:29

We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.

Thank you for saying this

This is my blood I marvel at the design of our weapons. So sophisticated that they can transform any man woman or child into a terrorist. Writing in their flight between launch and concussion an entire alternate history of a life. Just as the cop’s bullet convicts you of a crime. Its presence in your body evidence enough that it always belonged there. A violent transubstantiation.

This is my blood

are they not monsters?

“Psalm for the Slightly Tilted” “This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.”

“This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.” A new poem by Ilya Kaminsky. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ecrMpO

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

The Saint of Everything by Deborah Keenan for me. If a terrible ogre came to take all my books away, I’d release them all if, if I had to, but not that one. Never that one.

❤️ Happy 79th birthday to Patricia Lee Smith, the Godmother of Punk, born on this day in 1946, Chicago, Illinois 🫅

Photo by Lynn Goldsmith

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #pattismith #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

Momento mori.

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity

I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.

I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A crocheted Patti smith

Patti smith from Horses

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover