Block print of a Northern Parula on a branch

A made a little block print off a Northern Parula a couple years ago. (The colors aren’t quite accurate.)

While I’m already a PBS member, I also just became a direct monthly supporter of @njspotlightnews.org

You, I see them now. Thanks. You all are great. Thanks for your work!

@njspotlightnews.org Hello! The podcast feed hasn’t updated since Friday. Will this be resuming soon? Thanks! I’m a daily listener.

I’m sorry to hear about this. The NJ Spotlight news team has become my key source of NJ news, especially here on Bluesky.

Very disappointing, especially at this time. We have so few journalism outlets in NJ. @njspotlightnews.bsky.social has become my first listen each morning, listening to the podcast from the night before. I’m also member.

"...or when something is dead, when something is done, it’s complete, and it needs to be processed back into the whole."

"...mushrooms are like, this is food if we can find a way to use it. This could be nourishment. And when something breaks down in our communities, it’s actually a moment, usually, when something needs nourishing..."

adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life The social creative and visionary of emergence. Fractals. Pleasure activism. How we change — and change together.

From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...

Thanks for your coverage.

#Unrivaled is the most interesting startup in years

Let's go #unrivaled!

The uncertain blitzkrieg of Pleistocene megafauna We investigated, using meta-analysis of empirical data and population modelling, plausible scenarios for the cause of late Pleistocene global mammal extinctions. We also considered the rate at which ...

"We conclude that human colonization in the late Pleistocene triggered a ‘blitzkrieg’ of the ‘megafauna’, but the operational details remain uncertain." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I didn't know about Rex Brasher and his work. This little doc is really nice. vimeo.com/1017986345

And maybe the last American studio film casually set in Hungary. Or even Central or Eastern Europe, for that matter. Such a good movie.

This piece was originally published on Medium. For the last 10 years, I've written quite a bit, but mostly published on other sites. I'm slowly bringing some if this writing back into my own site. More to come.

5 years ago I published this reflection on aspects of Fred Rogers that are often overlooked. He was far more than a sweet old man on TV. He had a vision, bravely built his product, and retained the control needed to maintain it's authenticity. edmullen.com/all/thinking... Thanks again, Fred.

The cover of Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows.

scientific perspective, but from the eye of keen observer. They say grief is the price you pay for love. And loving is noticing. It's really hard to see across years and then speak to it, but Renkl does it beautifully.

I recently finished @margaretrenkl.bsky.social 's The Comfort of Crows. It's a beautiful book, as many people say. But it's also elegiac. Renkl deeply understands the natural world around her, which means she can see the species decline, the shifting of seasons, migration changes. Not from a...

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

Here is the directory of Starter packs: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Yeah, I have too. And being disconnected hasn't felt good. Bluesky head been attracting thoughtful people and there's been a big influx of people in the last couple weeks. Starter packs help building up your feed.

It seems like a critical mass is forming here. That's exciting. I loved the old days of twitter. It changed the trajectory of my career. It's decline, along with a job change amidst the pandemic, left me with a real loss of connection to a community I really valued. So I'm optimistic but cautious.

Hawke's assertion is that if you want to help your community, family, friends, you have to express yourself. And to express yourself, you have to know yourself. And to do that, you have to follow your love.

Give yourself permission to be creative Reflecting on moments that shaped his life, actor Ethan Hawke examines how courageous expression promotes healing and connection with one another -- and invites you to discover your own unabashed crea...

I really like this Ted talk from Ethan Hawke. Clips get pushed to be all the time, but the full talk is really nice. www.ted.com/talks/ethan_...

Recent entries from the blog. | everything changes

I've spent a lot of time this morning reading @aworkinglibrary's posts on everythingchanges.us/blog/. Every post is filled with clearly refined wisdom and such perfect metaphors they read as literature. "Energy makes time" resonated especially, everythingchanges.us/blog/energy-...

Tim models a fierce embrace of others, across lines of difference. Neighborliness. The strength of caring for those around you. Thank you Tim! I'm with you! Fred would be too!

Hell yeah, Tim Walz! I'm am 48 year old white guy. Gov. Walz is so important because he offers a model of white masculinity that is compassionate, supportive, and inclusive. For so long, white men have had to contend with a weird inertia that expects a distorted, limited model of what manhood means.

If X and Musk are not politically neutral, democracies need to act to mitigate the growing risks. Good afternoon from summertime Washington, where I am writing this dispatch along the Anacostia River. Alex Howard here, with another civic text. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed and amplified t...

The White House should stop ignoring Musk’s behavior & insulate agencies against risk, starting with shifting unique agency activity off of X.

No American should have to use a private platform to read official statements or interact with our elected representatives or appointed officials.

Opinion | My New Neighbor Has Eight Legs and a Knack for Design What we don’t know about the natural world always far exceeds what we do.

Two summers ago, I watched an orb weaver build webs on the same goldenrod over the course of the summer. I watched the increasing sophistication of each web, from the early clumsy ones to highly engineered structures. It was remarkable to see this individual learn. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/o...