Quoted
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails”. — Bertha Calloway
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I'm a tree hugger.
Did you know that hugging trees is good for your mental health ? It might sound silly, but it's true! This is a picture of me hugging a rare tree -- the black walnut ( Juglans nigra) tree .
The Automat
I just watched a documentary on the history of the automat. It's fabulous. New York, Mel Brooks, Colin Powell. It has it all. I only wish I could go to an automat for lunch... If only I had a time machine!
Land Acknowledgements
Indigenous peoples and communities continue to suffer at the hands of the petrochemical industry. VICE put together a documentary on the Chemical Valley in Sarnia, Ontario. I watched this documentary years ago but it is worth revisiting. When creating Land Acknowledgements , may it serve as inspiration.
hydrogen and helium
my neighbour’s elf light and strands of twinkly bulbs decorating their front yard try hard but can’t compete with the stars shining in the midnight black sky: nature 1, holiday decor 0.
United Nations (COP15)
At a recent UN biodiversity conference, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres sounded the alarm on environmental destruction. His remarks below : Ecosystems have become playthings of profit. With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet. And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy.
hospital food
walking through the emergency room i have flashbacks to last winter spending hours, days watching my dad lying on a stretcher hooked up to iv and heart monitors frail and scared and me escaping every now and again into a dimly lit hallway so he wouldn’t see my face splashed with tears
next stop
in the great hall the architecture is exquisite [circa 1920s] i stand admiring as people text and talk with one eye on the clock a sense of hurry and hustle endless motion and distraction and me depending on you to figure out where we are going next