About to do some herbal tea taste testing. Anise hyssop, spearmint, chocolate mint, peppermint, lavender, chamomile, marigold, sacred basil, lemon verbena.

Look, I’m glad people are re-discovering HP Lovecraft but some of us have been living in fear of malevolent gods from the briny deep for a while now.

If you have interest in the film and/or paganism, The Sing-Along-A-Wicker-Man Scrapbook by David Bramwell is thoroughly enjoyable. It’s also well-made–a pleasure to hold and look over.

View of the Ohio River at Troy, Indiana and the magnificent Christ of the Ohio statue overlooking the river.

On the banks of the Wabash. (Near the Atheneum in New Harmony.)

Another way to support the local bee population: plant enough basil that you can allow some to bloom and go to seed. The bees (around here anyway) go nuts for it.

Another good documentary on New Harmony, produced by Indiana University. This one gives more information about the Harmonists, a community of apocalyptic Lutherans. They first established the settlement on the Wabash but, after ten years, sold it to Robert Owen and moved back to Pennsylvania.

Good video about the remarkable Robert Owen, textile manufacturer, co-operative socialist, and founder of the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana—which I’ll be visiting on Wednesday.

Grist mill at Spring Mill State Park. It’s our local state park and it’s easy to forget how beautiful a place it is.

A friend invited me to take what I wanted from a stack of old records he inherited. Some good stuff, especially a stack of Frank Sinatra. But the thing I love most is this absolutely metal cover art on a Jerry Falwell recording. I’ll throw out the record but I want to do something with this cover.