Spending the evening at a DIY music festival, listening to a bunch of local folk musicians. The cicadas are playing a set while the humans set up for their next performance.

Rachel is already planning for 2024. This will more than fill out the backyard, a.k.a., Green Man’s Grotto. Then we’ll start working on the little strips of yard on each side of the house. In a few years, we and the beings living here will have transformed this tiny city lot into an island of life.

It’s hot today BUT we’ve seen a hummingbird and a monarch butterfly in the Grotto.

A good article on working with the Five Remembrances

Five Remembrances (Thich Nhat Hanh version):

• I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.
• I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health.
• I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death.
• All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
• My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

I used to repeat these every day and I think it might be time to get back to that.

Rachel made a zucchini pie and–you know what?–it’s really good. (Y’all, we have so many zucchinis.)

There’s a secret government program that has recovered nonhuman “biologics” and is working on reverse engineering nonhuman technology, according to a Pentagon intelligence officer testifying before Congress today.

There’s been a lot of talk about discovering other users on micro.blog lately, so I’ve reworked my bio to include my most frequent topics: “I’m Jeremy. I typically write about gardening, environmental issues, animist spirituality, woodworking, and whatever I’m reading at the moment.”

Anonymous discord user, speaking the truth:

A degree of stillness then a confrontation with the unconscious. A decent into the underworld. These aren’t much mentioned in your HR department’s mindfulness drive.

“Children of Ted: Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes”

I feel the same way reading this as I did watching If a Tree Falls: I understand the feeling, even if there’s no way I can endorse the conclusion.