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• Post #4457685

  Gahhh look who's back! I'm so in love, OMG. 🫠🥰 I’ve been away dogsitting for a week and wondered if that would be the end of it, but NOPE. 🖤✨ This friend flew from the tallest redwood to the East, circled me, and then, when I held up a handful of walnuts, landed in the redwood right by the deck and peeked around to watch me lay out nine nuts. They did the water-dunking thing again, too: dropped a couple of the nuts in the birdbath before eating them. I just tried it and can’t tell what...

• Post #4444352

  Reminder that paying with cash (when possible) is one way to deny the surveillance state.

• Post #4128870

  #3GoodThings • Pulling out exactly the right length of dental floss • An excellent weekend at the bookshop, with good sales and fun patrons • Good books (including the one I’m now reading: She Who Dreams, by Wanda Easter Burch 🪄🐇🌳🕸️)

• Post #4125575

  “What is intelligence? For the US biologist Michael Levin, who leads the Levin Lab at Tufts University, when we think of intelligence only in terms of what brains in bodies can do, we’re projecting our own biases onto the world. Instead, he argues, intelligence is the capacity to pursue goals, and it exists on a continuum that ranges from cells to humans. In this short documentary from Quanta Magazine, Levin explains how his lab tests how lifeforms at different scales of complexity adapt to nove...

• Post #4094184

  “At first, users may be drawn into a relationship with an AI companion because they feel validated. But, over time, people consistently perceive human empathy as more emotionally satisfying and supportive. . . . “ ‘We don’t just want to be understood,’ Perry told me. ‘We want to feel felt. We want to know that the other person is genuinely present with us, that they might share in our emotions, and that they care enough to put in the effort to actually connect.’ ” https://psyche.co/ideas/why-w...

• Post #4073738

  “Prison forced me to stop moving, and it didn’t do it gently or by choice. It stripped away distraction until there was nothing left but time and thought. I didn’t find serenity. I found awareness. I learned what my anger feels like before I act on it. I learned how fear shows up in my body. I learned that between impulse and reaction, there is a small space, and, inside that space, I get to choose.” https://psyche.co/turning-points/in-the-stillness-of-prison-i-learned-how-to-be-alone

• Post #4055666

  #3GoodThings • Unlocking a new Chickadee level: brushing my teeth with one hand while chickadees eat out of the other • Handing over the short story that I’ve been writing in waves over the past month • Advancing to the official waitlist for the Comingle (UBI) beta

• Post #4004955

  #3GoodThings • Making it through the day • Time for a two-hour hike after the most stressful (town) part of the day • An unexpected opportunity to do something for a clerk who I had wished I could do something for

• Post #3976955

  #3GoodThings • All but finishing the magical short story I’ve been working on, and being Very Happy with it • Continuing my soaks in the tiny pond,m—which feel healing—every free sunny day • Looking forward to picking up a cash payment and other wondrous things tomorrow

• Post #3925981

  #3GoodThings • When patrons sing or hum with the music I’ve chosen at the bookshop • Finances loosening up a bit • Sitting in the tiny pond next to a dragonfly and having little fish nibble at me

• Post #3801120

  #3GoodThings • The five-years-in-the-future me in an activity I did today (as I found her incredibly helpful) • Another quiet day in which to process Big Things (because mygod there are Big Things) • A peaceful feeling about the upcoming pivotal day for me tomorrow

• Post #3797477

  Devil Girl scoffs at self-care!

• Post #3777651

  #3GoodThings • A wonderful, hour-long phone call with my parents, in which we talked easily about good things (which, for us, is huge—and especially important right now), including their repeated exclamations about a beautiful sunset • A much, much easier day at work today than yesterday—which in fact made me particularly glad to be alive, in a peaceful, simple way • All the wonderful people who come around the bookshop

• Post #3752758

  #3GoodThings • Made it through the most intense day I’ve experienced in a long time (with fingers crossed that the next few are easier!). • Finished a petsitting stint (which, though said pets were all beautiful people, was a LOT—more because of me than because of them), made it through the workday, and am back where I can breathe in the comfort of solitude (until work tomorrow). • Knowing that other people are Going Through Shit and Trying to Make Sense of Things helps me feel less alone, ev...

• Post #3730517

  #3GoodThings • Picking blackberries at a leisurely pace • A peaceful July day • Time and space in which to sit with difficult things

• Post #3707685

  #3GoodThings • Snuggling exhaustedly into a cozy bed • A fresh batch of groceries • Anticipation of an influx of money after creatively stringing things along for a while

• Post #3679285

  Meet Neil, “a 1-ton seal who respects nothing.” https://apnews.com/article/neil-elephant-seal-tasmania-australia-dd46ef42400dc85b92c103d5f10718ef?ref=readtangle.com

• Post #3664665

  Petsitting Day 1 complete. Good thing this one is heartmeltingly cute, because she’s not housetrained yet. 💩 We did make it outside to fertilize the plants before bed, at least! Progress already! 🤞🏼

• Post #3547797

  #3GoodThings • A friend I can trust with my heaviest, most precious burdens • Messages and images (and image-messages) on people’s clothing and in off-the-cuff things they say • A big bagful of groceries for $45 from the normally expensive little general store

• Post #3483829

  #3GoodThings • Working on a new short story, by request, that is coming along nicely • An interlude during which I ran an errand to research for the story and to follow guidance from a dream (which are connected) • An email from a friend who’s been in a couple of my dreams lately

• Post #3478116

  A dream has led me to this song. Would anyone translate the Te Reo Māori part of it? I can’t find a good translator. Thank you! 🙏🏼 Aroha Mana Takatāpui Kei roto i a koe #TeReoMaori https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpUBBv4NtUU

• Post #3472840

  “Initially, Leah Wilson had no idea why the sky above her house was full of crows. Then, she and her neighbors discovered that a crow had become stuck in her home’s gutter. She enlisted the help of the local fire department to save the bird, then drove it to a wild animal rehabilitation center. A few days later, the center told her that the crow had been released back into the wild. But that wasn’t the end of the story. When walking her dog around the neighborhood, Wilson says a crow swooped dow...

• Post #3395577

  #3GoodThings • The birds who built a nest in my tent (open on one end) while I was away have continued to care for their babies even though they’re scared of the big intruder (me, making myself as nonthreatening as possible). • I’m going down to San Francisco tomorrow for an overnight trip, with hotel paid, so I can help a friend pull herself together for her granddaughter’s wedding. • Today I lay for a long time—even dozed a little—in sunlight on the forest floor, which felt like food when I...

• Post #3387021

  #3GoodThings • A friend fixed my driver’s-side door (which for months has opened only from the inside) in ten minutes and wouldn’t accept payment. 🥰🩶 • Everything is well at home (except for the birds who have nested in it in my absence and are anxious about my presence, but maybe they’ll be okay 🤞🏼). • On a quick hike, I found ripe blackberries that will be So Good on my oatmeal the next two days.

• Post #3379564

  #3GoodThings • Finally exploring a section of old road behind a friend’s place to see how it connects up to another road I know • Promise of garden overabundance to come • Finding and sharing ripe huckleberries

• Post #3349992

  #3GoodThings • Meeting friends at a farmers market • Writing a short story for the first time in ages (by request) and becoming enamored with it • A Big Important Email and subsequent Big Important Phone Call that went very well (to be followed by a Big Important Meetup as soon as I can afford it)

• Post #3298374

  #3GoodThings • Just as I was worrying about something, a friend, who had been worried about something, called told me about it, concluding with, “. . . and then I decided to trust the Universe, like Superball!”—which reminded me to trust the Universe, like myself. 🪃 • Chickadees have been eating out of my hand again. • I sent an email that I’d been thinking about sending for a long time, and it felt good.

• Post #2739595

  Anybody know of an image I can print—or a small painting or little figurine or other art, if affordable or for trade—of the Virgin/Mother Mary that might appeal to an animist pagan? I’d like one for one of my altars. No plastic unless it’s secondhand, and no AI. EDIT: Also no Amazon or eBay or their ilk. Small (or at least ethical) businesses only. #VirginMary #MotherMary

• Post #2422949

  “This is just a really special moment for humanity. We take you to the website for Fox 101.9, a radio station in Melbourne, Australia, where ‘Web Guy Josh’ has published a peppy, harmless instructional post for the making of an ‘Amazing Rainbow Tie-Dye Number Surprise Cake.’ “ And then the flame war begins. 🤣 https://deadspin.com/rainbow-cake-recipe-inspires-comment-apocalypse-1592575661/

• Post #1902267

  If our so-called leaders aren’t going to help us, we’re just gonna have to help each other.