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Fresh takes from Doug on topics of interest to me--food, politics, some sports, the coming climate catastrophe, and as Voltaire might suggest, paying attention to my garden.
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On Fear, Hope, and what lays between (opens the original)
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This post is part backstory, part what is driving me to do what I am doing NOW, not knowing what is likely to happen in the future. I need to note also the inspiration for this piece: ‘s article Who Do We Need to Become? and this post by . But mostly it is about my relationship with fear. I know
Growth Year 2--September (opens the original)
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Just like my August update, this one is a couple of days early—but a lot has been happening! Some of the content here has been pushed out as pics, but “for the record” I need to pull it all together.Two of the very first things I planted in our first spring here were two thornless blackberry bushes. Neither did anything (nor did I expect it) last year, but both seem to be thriving, and it looks like I will get a handful of berries this year.<a class="
Further thoughts on the coming Eggonomy (opens the original)
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The comments from the article I posted yesterday have sparked some thinking about the coming eggonomy. Additionally, articles I have read in the last 24 hours, and one from a while ago, seem to be coming together in a theme for me.The articles:This repost by Tanja (original post by Alex here) “Laid Up”<a href="https://substack.com/@ericsuquet/note/p-194078348?r=fjrpt&u
Eggs and the future of money (opens the original)
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I read an article on Substack yesterday where the author’s thesis was that the Iran/US war is all about manipulating currencies, reducing $US hegemony in the world in favour of using a government-surveilled digital currency that we will all be using at some future 2030’s date, blissful in the ignorance of how much control we have given up while we continue to tap away on our phones and purchase the things we “need”.Well, I don’t happen to agree.Not that there couldn’t be some plan, dreamt up by
Crossing the Threshold (opens the original)
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It feels to me like today was a big day. It feels like crossing a threshold.Today is the day when the reality of what I can do with the growing space I have stopped being an idea, a set of possible futures, and snapped into focus. I had no idea when we moved here 20 months ago that this is where I was going, but here we are.All it took was JC’s arrival this morning to turn this:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5-aC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_
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