From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.
  • “Hey, I work with college students often. Do you know what brings their attention back to the surface after years of Zoom classes, Generative AI cheating, and smart phone usage? 

    Zines. Freaking zines. You put a zine in an undergraduate’s hands and say “Someone like you made this. You could make this. All you need is some found images, paper, scissors/glue, and your own imagination. No chatgpt necessary.” 

    They light up, every single time, without fail. They start to recognize how little Generative AI serves them in the long run. They’ve called zines “Anti-AI” to my face and gleefully showed me their first zines with thought, intention, and inventiveness. 

    Critical thinking isn’t dead in the land of zines. It’s thriving. Academia has to pivot, as much as I loathe that corporate term.”

    Abigail Schleifer via Substack Notes

    See also: What Are Zines? by Abigail Schleifer

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  • “The work of writing a book is not the selection of suitable words,” writes John Higgs. “The work is the task of engaging another mind. It is a constant dance between understanding your subject and understanding how a future reader will react to it – a reader you can never know, but which you still have to intuit.”

    via Austin Kleon (in the context of discussing AI)

    Source

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  • Blue Love-in-a-Mist ethereal flowers with delicate leaves and spiraling center that transforms into a seed pod. These flowers evoke fairyland to me.

    Love-in-a-Mist are some of my favorite self seeders.

    As suggested in my Chaos Gardening zine.

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  • Blue flowers against a wooden fence. The bachelor buttons are tufts of royal blue and a few white and sky blue love in a mist are hidden by leaves.

    Bachelor Buttons and Love-in-a-Mist.

    Two of my favorite self seeders.

    As suggested in my Chaos Gardening zine.

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  • My front garden is largely overrun with weeds, but the daisies and bachelor buttons (self seeded into the yard outside the garden bed) are living their best life. A black armillary sphere peeks up behind.

    My front garden is largely overrun with weeds, but the daisies and bachelor buttons (self seeded into the yard outside the garden bed) are living their best life.

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  • Two view of our chaos garden. First a peek at the “wildflower meadow” a patch of self seeding Bachelor Buttons and Love-in-a-Mist.

    Then, an honest look at the messier parts, as filmed by my 5 year old.

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  • What a dreamy studio!

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  • Transcendence of a Productivity Addict

    Loved this Podcast Episode from Kening Zhu

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