Rachel made a shadow box in honor of our house and all the ancestors and spirits of place. Her description of the contents: The wooden planks that help make up the back panel are from the house itself. I gathered them from the attic. The printouts are from newspaper clippings. Updates began with the Owens getting permits to build the house, and ending the week they moved in. The prickly seed pods are from the sweet gum tree that the Elliots planted.
Nicely observed.
There are no “side effects.” There are only effects you like and effects you don’t like. To say otherwise is merely marketing.
Rachel, Darcy, and I visited the Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum today. Pretty cool! Mostly it made me wish even more for a landscape filled with shrines.
Really good reading advice from Alan Jacobs
One of the best things about our garden this summer has been these galia melons. They’re apparently a cross between honeydew and cantaloupe; they’re straightforwardly sweet, eliminating that slightly off taste of cantaloupe. And they’re so pretty!
Rachel and I have spent much of the day cleaning up around the juniper trees at the back of the garage. Looks much better now. Also, I harvested a lot of berries from the trimmed limbs and I’m currently dehydrating them for incense. Smells so good in here!
A pox upon all lava rock, plastic landscape edging, and all the works and ways of Orthanc Landscaping Services, LLC
Quoting myself from two years ago:
Two ecosystem services provided by humans: gratitude and awareness.
Good article on the fake personality of chatbots—in part because of lack of persistence through time. (Via @ayjay) As I’ve been using Claude more, I’m finding that it’s best at amplifying my own ideas and spinning them in new directions, not generating anything new or even factual.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Georgian priest chants the 50th Psalm in Aramaic 🎵