Then this happened. Just in case anyone thought #StoryArk is #ElizabethGilbert doing an #EatPrayLove tour of Rome's pizzeria, it most certainly isn't. Far more gritty, living extreme weather while reporting on it. @coveringclimatenow.org #daillymaverick #storyarkdiaries #climatejournalism
Mouse has a sister-by-another-mister. How do you weigh a kitten to work out their formula needs, when one is in the middle of nowhere? Kitty in the left hand, 400g of beans in the right. Meet Birdie. #vanlife #adventurecats #storyark #storyarkdiaries
When trees have navels.
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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In the presence of the elders. #Emkhuze #mkhuze sycamore fig forest, KZN. #storyarkdiaries #storyark #climatecrisis #climatejournalism #SchoolforClimateStudies @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social
Trade in your cute little kitty heels for some no-fun flats. They’ll take you places your city shoes never could.
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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One person’s whimsy is another’s weed. Aliens, everywhere! We shipped them around the world, now they’ve gone feral. Our bad, not theirs. Now are we counting the tally.
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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Have a place for everything, and keep everything in its place. Meticulously. Entropy is snapping at your heels.
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This might explain the mysterious eddies of sand dunes in the bedroom part of the tent, which I thought was hermetically sealed against them. Mouse needs to learn to shower after taking a dust-spa treatment, and wipe her paws on the mat.
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When life gives you lemons, go looking for wild guava. Just let the Vervets have first dibs.
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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After reading #climate news today, I'm reminded of this post from Jan, when Story Ark was berthed on a cattle farm in the E Cape highlands.
... stay calm...
@coveringclimatenow.org @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social @dailymaverick.co.za
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#Woordfees #ToyotaStellenboschWoordfees @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social #storyark #storyarkdiaries
Story Ark will be there: one van, two crew, three years, all the stories. #EcoFlow #ecoflowsolarpanel #ecoflowriverpro
Escapee from Jurassic Park. How they roll, up here in #Hluhluwe #KZN
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Story Ark is berthed in KZN, in time for Hilton Arts Fest, after two muddy months in Zululand wilderness. Will be seeing #andrewbuckland performing Ugly Noo Noo, and #johnmaytham bringing #mikevangraan's To life, with love to the stage here.
#hiltonartsfestival #storyark #storyarkdiaries
A critter was here. #Hluhluwe
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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There is wisdom, everywhere. It will find you. #Hluhluwe #BushbabyLodge
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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In the past few generations, we have ‘turned half the planet into a factory farm for just one species.’ Richard Powers, The Overstory.
Acknowledge the fallen.
#RichardPowers #theoverstory
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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When your sofa is strung from the bow of a fig tree that’s as magical as the Quangle Wangle’s hat. #EdwardLear
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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‘A tree is a river, wrapped in bark.’ Robert MacFarlane, Is a river alive? #RobertMacFarlane #RightsOfNature #MoreThanHumanRights
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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Seek the council of elders.
#MoreThanHumanRights
Story Ark: 1 van, 2 crew, 3 years... all the stories 🌍
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When you’re simply going about the business of throwing a neat concrete path, and some upstarts from the neighbourhood swagger through and graffiti-tag your work. The youth, these days!? #storyarkdiaries #isimangaliso #wetlands
When you’re simply going about the business of throwing a neat concrete path, and some upstarts from the neighbourhood swagger through and graffiti-tag your work. The youth, these days!? #storyarkdiaries #isimangaliso #wetlands
The joys of an al fresco work station. Just as I'm finishing up part 3 of Piles of Sh*t series on nappy pollution, my computer narrowly avoids becoming the receiving end of a bird's very long long-drop. Not once. Not twice. Thrice. #vanlife #mobilejournalism #ClimateJournalism #storyarkdiaries
Even a brave cat called Mouse needs the facilities from time to time. Cats won't endure indignity of squatting on road-side, as hounds will. How we roll on travel days: WC (water closet) in wheel well, sprinkling of litter in foil baking tray.
#vanlife #storyark #storyarkdiaries #catsforclimate
Prepping for interview on coral bleaching, while processing 3 news stories (links, below). This is world we live in.
Mouse, chief navigator/plucky comic relief, has right idea: stay in bed, give oneself mani-pedi. #climatecrisis #capitalism #inequality #storyark #storyarkdiaries #vanlife #mandani
Story Ark's chief navigator and plucky-comic-relief, the cat called Mouse, tuning in to her inner true north. As one should. #vanlife #catsofinstagram #climatecrisis #storyark #storyarkdiaries #longform #journalism
What do #hobbit Bilbo Baggins and a S African frog have in common? Find out on #BBC #podcast #UnexpectedElements.
#frog #StoryArk #StoryArkDiaries @amsterdammed.bsky.social @kakape.bsky.social @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social
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Invisible Ink, a climate #memoir by Leo Joubert, gets a bit of a spit-n-polish. #climatecrisis #climateanxiety #ecoanxiety #depression #longform #journalism #narrative #storyark #storyarkdiaries www.invisibleinksa.com
Africa’s #grasslands feed herds, are water factories, mop carbon from atmosphere. @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @anton harber
#grasslands #soilcarbon #climatecrisis #climateresilience #drakensberg #drakensbergmountains #storyark #storyarkdiaries
A #photoessay from #Richtersveld #southafrica
#quivertree #treealoe #climatecrisis #ClimateAction @coveringclimatenow.org #the89percent #conservation #desertification @antonharber.bsky.social @henrynxumalofund.bsky.social #storyark #storyarkdiaries #journalism
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Tell a funny story about running barefoot across the desert in a completely inappropriate frock... and then whip out the more serious climate story #namaqualand #dustbowl #desertification #climatecollapse #storyark #storyarkdiaries @coveringclimatenow.org @antonharber.bsky.social
