In Cyberpunk there’s a character you can romance if you’re playing as a male—Kerry Eurodyne, lead singer of Samurai. Obviously I did, and he became my favorite character in the game.
Thanks to @glacialdrift I got a message from Kerry’s voice actor for my birthday! I’VE NEVER GOTTEN A CAMEO BEFORE. The joy that erupted from me when he introduced himself…
After we said goodbye to Eris, I didn’t want to be in an empty house without her. Grief has taught me that there is solace in sunlight and water, in mountains and trees. We went to Acadia and I took this quick shot of Sand Beach each as I took one last look. The sun was low behind the mountain, and we were in the shadows as we left the beach. But the light was still there. The light was still there.
She came on the winter solstice twenty years ago, and left yesterday on the perihelion, the closest point we are to the sun all year. Always my little one, now the sunshine forever. Eris, the Baby Cutes, Queen of Everything.
“Life, uh, finds a way.”
These tiny lichen live between the slats of the bog boardwalk. Those are little spruce needles collected below for scale.
#lichen #nature #lookdown #tinyliving #nofilter
I didn’t want to go to the bog yesterday. I was anxious to avoid the discomfort of being cold, sore, tired, and wet. But I went to the bog, and the clouds held back the rain, and I learned more about brown and gold in one afternoon than I’d learned in a lifetime before. #nature #bog #autumn #north #peat #larch #sphagnummoss #nofilter
Small friends.
Top: Dragonhunter (a dragonfly in its aquatic stage!), hickory tussock moth, British soldier lichen.
Bottom: Hemlock looper moth, tricolored bumblebee, parenthesis lady beetle
#naturalhistory #nature #insects #newengland #getoutside
Every fall, I teach field natural history, where we spend hours outside practicing the skills of a naturalist: attention, curiosity, connection. This year especially, being in the classroom—or, rather, out of it—feels more vital and necessary than ever.
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Wild Geese, Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
#poetry #fall #forties #professor #mainelife #nature
These gorgeous Assyrian #pickles I made get a golden glow from #turmeric and curry powder, with dill from my #garden, chili peppers, garlic cloves, carrots, cauliflower, and cucumber. That’s a 32 oz Ball jar, but I don’t think these are going to last long. #canning #cooking #foodporn #homesteading #oldschool
I ran out of room in my raised beds, so I bought terra cotta pots to put my peppers into. They go in the front porch. I also picked up Meyer 🍋 tree that asked to come home with us. And we drove it home in our solar-powered car. #gogreen #garden #greenthumb #plants #nofilter #ev #electriccar
I’m so honored to have an essay out in this inspiring, powerful collection with so many writers I admire. Rebecca Solnit’s work has deeply inspired my own. My essay, “The Asteroid and the Fern,” draws on the fossil record’s long view of catastrophe, rebuilding, and resilience. The Earth has not only left us a blueprint for surviving the climate crisis, but a mandate to be good ancestors. #bookstagram #booktok #books #climatechange #climatecrisis #earthday #paleontology #deeptime #writer #writing #nonfiction #naturewriting
