Gardening Resources
How to Plant Your First Garden 🌱 via Dark Properties
Advice for Starting No Dig 🥕 via Charles Dowding
Find Your Last Frost Date ❄️ via Almanac.com
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“Fiction has an incredible transformative power. Just because it is quiet and gentle and mostly invisible to the eye does not mean it is not there, this inner strength.”
Elif Shafak
Source: Fiction changes us from within.
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“I feel really lucky that I had some good role models of people who seemed to be devoted parents and artists at the same time. I don’t think I needed so much to know how they did it — it seems impossible to generalize how one does it, because everyone’s context/family/situation is so wildly different — it was just enough to know that it could be done, that it was possible to be a decent parent and a decent artist at the same time, and that, maybe, being good at one could even help you be better at the other.”
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I’ve had a tab open for kening zhu’s post about rituals vs. sprints for nearly a month. It reminds me about something Katherine May once said on a podcast* about the cycle of neurodivergent hyperfocus and recovery. Versus a neurotypical ideal of consistency. It’s something I am still figuring out. Having experienced burn out I find I need to be careful of flying too close to the sun. But trying to force a structure that doesn’t align with my capacity is also not right. I’d love to hear other thoughts on this.
* I can’t seem to find the podcast episode I’m talking about. 🤦
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“a conscious choice to be happy is a form of resistance…”
“You’re allowed to cultivate joy. In fact, you need to, because our job is to build the world that we want.”
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“How can queer art help us to survive, and maybe even fight back, during this bloody awful moment in history?
I’ve been asking myself some version of this question non-stop for ages, but I still don’t have any clear answers. What I do have is a bone-deep sense that we need to be twice as wild, twice as flagrantly ourselves — and at least three times as experimental, honest, and weird as before.”
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“The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication & affinity was five years ago.
The second best time is today!”
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“The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication & affinity was five years ago.
The second best time is today!
Over the years, I’ve distributed many zines through the mail. Those have been one-off productions, which is to say, pageants of minor chaos, always with the sense, as the last zine went out the door, of skidding into home plate.
The best time to estabÂlish alternative, non-algorithmic netÂworks of comÂmuÂniÂcaÂtion — to forge durable links in physÂical space — to insist upon the demoÂcÂratic necesÂsity of a muscular, uniÂversal postal serÂvice — was five years ago.
The second best time is today.”