"We are all bound by a covenant of reciprocity: plant breath for animal breath, winter and summer, predator and prey, grass and fire, night and day, living and dying. Water knows this, clouds know this. Soil and rocks know they are dancing in a continuous giveaway of making, unmaking, and making again the earth. Our elders say that ceremony is the way we can remember to remember. In the dance of the giveaway, remember that the earth is a gift that we must pass on, just as it came to us. When we forget, the dances we'll need will be for mourning. For the passing of polar bears, the silence of cranes, for the death of rivers and the memory of snow."
— Robin Wall KimmererI love to write, and I want to write more, and read more new, interesting, underground voices... and I dread engaging with the writing community.
"Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other."
— Guy DebordI'd like to quit my job and work in a stationery and used book shop, and just talk about writing all day.
"One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality"
— Antonio GramsciPope Leo XIV on the evolution of the Social Doctrine, the danger of capitalism and AI, an some overt nods to liberation theology.
I can't stop thinking about psycho-geography.
2025
In a country where banks are inaccessible and international transfers nearly impossible, traders turned to cryptocurrency not as speculation but as basic infrastructure.
"Every governance model is also an argument about human nature."
— source unknownIs it ageist that the gerontocracy is one of my least favorite -ocracies?
still here,
still building.
USA
Apr 2026
Mountains
Decentralized doesn't mean leaderless.
think together.
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
— Simone WeilSila: weather and consciousness, the same word.