Her first day with us.
Her last day with us.
15 years between the two photos.
She bouyed my spirit through a lot of life's darkness.
I think she held on as long as she did to see me through it.
I wish she was here to see me now.
I miss her beautiful soul.
What is the best book on John Brown and why?
Vegetables can be *delicious* if you know how to cook 'em.
You can feed a lot of people with a cabbage. They're easy to grow, and are cheap to buy.
Cybertruck really showing through here.
Peaches in the PNW are are real challenge.
This is my favorite tree.
It is old and enormous (~7-foot diameter). But it has also suffered at the hands of thoughtless men.
It is, in my heart, a microcosm of the entire world. Decaying splendor, tragic strength, deep roots, undeniable beauty fading in our thoughtless hands.
This dwarf peach was a gift from my friend, Tres, when he and his family visited us from Georgia.
Hard to find garden buddies more charming than yardbirds
We may get pears this year
The United States is so deeply cucked.
The figs are yawning awake in the sun
The sea berries are showing spring growth. No fruit yet obviously.
I love these berries juiced, but they're so hard to harvest. Apparently you prune and freeze and shake the frozen berries off.
We're gonna try that this year.
update: my wife tells me I have "a real lesbian vibe"
Touched grass this afternoon.
Found calm and space and let the light in.
Breathed the breeze in and let it spread to every cell in my body.
Life can be miraculous if you let it.
People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not:
- hospitals out of capacity
- Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died
- bodies stored in freezer trailors
- mass graves in NYC
Overheard my boys while I was making dinner:
"Why are dragons so mean?"
"Because they're hungry"
This sentiment extends, I think, to nearly everything.
And the 1/2 of your day you aren’t working to ultimately fund genocides and cruelty, you are dealing with everyone and everything scamming you at all times.
True!
Every aspect of modernity is overrun with lies and scams and evil shit at this point
You spend 1/2 your waking hours working
1/2 of those working hours go to taxes
So you spend 1/4 of your waking life paying for Israeli healthcare & bombs to drop on Iranian schools/orphanages
It's been a few months, and it's filled with rain again, but Tesla service won't even look at it without me having to pay them.
I would never buy this car again knowing who Elon is, but even if he weren't a fascist I could absolutely not recommend dealing with this company.
Every time it rains, the trunk of my Tesla Model 3 fills with water.
@Tesla replaced the trunk and the seals twice under warranty. When the car ran out of warranty, they made me pay for the last seal repair, saying that the repair would have a one-year warranty.
My Cuban friend, here on a work visa, has stopped responding to texts.
I am afraid for him.
Ever feel like you're about to be *bodied* by a book?
It's called "we let the dandelions bloom so our friends have food"
Portland is weird. Portland people are a whole thing.
See the first picture.
But I don't care because their hearts are in the right place and that matters so very much.
See the second.
We buried my grandmother last week.
The only thing I really wanted from her house were these hazelnut cuttings. Cuttings from the trees I climbed and ate from as a child.
We'll plant them here.
If your employer tries to sell you on their "Mission" it is almost certainly just a psychological ploy to get you to give more of yourself than you're being paid to give
In order to make a few people at the top richer
You are not part of the team
You are the fuel to be burned
Hey there buddy.
I thought you were dead.
I am glad I was wrong.
Thank you.
I think Joe Kent is a largely-ignorant, entirely unqualified person.
But I'm also fully on his side right now.
And I think his speaking out against war is objectively good.