I don’t subscribe to that many newsletters/substacks/etc. but it’s clearly too many, judging by the unread email in my inbox. New rule: if I don’t consistently read it immediately (or at least want to), unsubscribe.

We were meant to be inspired when Business Leader said his rule was, “better than yesterday, not as good as tomorrow.” My rule, on the other hand, is this: become increasingly useless to people like Business Leader.

Lovely video from Pete Larson on the rhythms of life.

Replace Bradford pears with dogwoods. Now that’s a campaign idea we can all believe in.

Apropos of nothing, I’m thinking this morning about how a series of ironclad mutual defense agreements marched everyone into WW1.

It is always better to pray for peace than for the defeat of your enemies because there is no standpoint from which you can definitively answer the question, “Are we the baddies?”

My employer says they will be celebrating National Deskfast Day this Friday by supplying coffee and donuts.

Deskfast was a term coined in the early 2000s when it was discovered that more and more employees were eating breakfast at their desks.

This feels like a thing to be mourned, not celebrated.

Beautiful, short film about 85 year old Helen Dew:

For Helen, a key element in building personal and community resilience is in building quality soil. From making biochar for her compost to petitioning the local council to create a natural burial park, she has worked tirelessly in so many ways to contribute to her community and to the planet. She is truly Something Beautiful for the World!

And the poem she wrote–which she reads in the film–is not to be missed.

Nearly every time someone mentions Eclipse Day (which I always imagine with capital letters), I think of this from Neil Gaiman.

Pete Larson: “Why I Farm.” This is different from Pete’s usual videos, which are typically recordings of him working on his farm. This is almost like a manifesto for small, community-centered farms—and a damn fine manifesto at that.