I’m an expert on capitalism and everywhere I look I just see pain and ecological destruction.
Some girl called me cheap today because I’m learning to sharpen my knives instead of just buying new ones. Consumerism is a cancer.
I know, right? I make our own fruit soda (kombucha), and my very boomer mom thinks it’s silly because Coke tastes so great! I need my daily Coke!
Bitch, right now we have raspberry lemonade, blackberry pop, apple and cinnamon ice tea, and fizzy mint ice tea. With extra vitamins and no added sugar.
Over the last few years I have been working on getting into botany, herbalism and urban foraging. Basically I am working on trying to identify every plant I see in my neighborhood and finding what their uses are. So in my yard and walk around the neighborhood I look at every plant and try to see if I can identify it. Since its easiest to identify while flowering I guess for weeks and months until then to determine if I am right. As the seasons change I get better and better at identifying things after or before a bloom. It really brings magic and interest as I move around the world
Irish archeologists walking through the countryside with nothing to talk about because farmers keep tearing down their own country’s historical sites (reading Irish archeology books is depressing)
The archeology book Im talking about was mentioning they were on a time limit because the farmer who owned the land wanted to tear down the over a thousand year old ruin (maybe even over two thousand) because he wanted the land’s use as farmland. They weren’t able to finish their study of the ruins and its artifacts despite working overtime because they hit their time limit and the farmer had the ancient ruins demolished. That’s just depressing.
Yea, it’s extremely common.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_archaeology
We get what we can get out.
Rocks aren’t magic but if you dig into the subject you’ll find that rocks are incredibly diverse and form in a number of different ways. Many are also found located hundreds/thousands of miles away from where they were formed, meaning they somehow moved.
Are you suggesting
coconutsrocks migrate?
My library doesn’t have it :(
You can usually put in requests and do inter library loans!
For me it is magical when I see some people who know how to walk and chewing gum at the same time
That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby
This “magic” requires a certain dose of privilege to be enjoyed. Fairly certain nearly everyone has the cognitive potential to do so, but unless we tax the rich, not the potential privilege.
✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.
Where I am, everywhere is inaccessible private land, except for a tiny sliver of roads between them.
There are a few places which allow you to temporarily exist there for the purpose of commercial exchanges.
But most of my world is simply forbidden to access. There are endless forests and fields here, all littered with “no tresspass” signs.
It is all owned and I can’t go there.This planet is 0% magical
… But if you’re bored, then you’re boring.
The agony and the irony, they’re killing me!
