Green Man’s Grotto has been extended and now includes a small pond (4’ diameter, 2’ deep with a shelf at 1’ deep). We’ve added water lillies, water lettuce, cattails, and blue flag iris within the pond. Around it we’ve planted creeping jenny, sneezeweed, and yarrow. The stone is limestone which we gathered from the area. (We live in the limestone capital of the world, you know.) The pebbles are landscaping rock taken from another part of our yard, which we have future plans for.
One of the perks of working remotely for the last couple of years: watching the Tour de France live. I got into watching cycling via the spring classics and they’ll always be special for me. But the Tour is really fun when you’re able to keep up with it live. 🚲
Swamp milkweed
This is worth watching (Netflix). Also good (if a bit less inspirational) is “Living Soil”.
I found this fascinating and one of the more realistic approaches to making a bigger impact on our climate crises. I came away with a lot of questions that I want to do some reading on, which is good.
Oliver Burkeman:
A life fully lived just is painfully bittersweet, the joy inextricably intertwined with loss. The major chapters of life, such as your children’s childhoods, just will feel like they’re over too fast, pretty much whatever you do.
I am forty-five years old and I’m still trying to accept this, even after years spent reading in wisdom traditions that teach this very thing. It is as if there is a small part of me that knows it is true while everything else within me fights it.
Happy belated solstice, everyone. We’re at the turn of the year – days start getting shorter and the heat really cranks up here in Indiana.
I had good intentions of posting daily about vacation but obviously that didn’t work out.
Flying to California
As previously noted, we had some problems getting to San Francisco – but nothing like what was to come. (Cue ominous music.) San Francisco
We already weren’t planning a lot of time for San Francisco but, with the additional delay, we basically just had one day.
Inspiring, short documentary about Jadav Payeng, who has been planting a forest since 1979 to save the river island of Majuli from destruction by erosion.
