Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
essay/list: A New Kind of Bucket List: A passport to the world within (Andrea Gibson/Things That Don’t Suck). I’ve never understood the other kind of bucket list, compiling experiences by going places and doing external activities, though I enjoy those things. This list, I get. Some of my faves: To stand guard over my own attention, and to understand how much my attention is worth; To sense with senses the world taught us do not exist; To see people as a mystery, especially those I know best; To interrupt my judgments, criticisms, blames knowing they are almost always trying to distract me from my own pain.
short video: Road signs (danielmck33/Swiss Miss). Kind of mesmerising.
short essay/list: Oranges: Aren’t you glad I made a list (Rosecrans Baldwin/Meditations in an Emergency). “The color orange suggests papaya, tiger, caution.” And orange tea cake – yes.
maps/article: wake up babe, the new hardiness map just dropped: 💁🏻♀️ are you in a new zone? what zones can & can’t tell you (Lauren DubinskyFloricult). My zone in NH changed from 5a to 5b. We used to live in inland York County, ME, which was zone 4a in the mid-1990s; now it’s 5a. What USDA zone doesn’t tell us: how cold it will get any year (they’re based on 30-year averages); how volatile weather will be in the area; what fruit trees survive and fruit in the area; and the frost dates for the area.
humourous essay: Let’s Explore Your Credit Journey! An email from your friends at Chase (Bev Potter/Bev Has All The Answers). Scanning my email, before I realised I was reading another newsletter essay and not an actual Chase missive, my jaw dropped like a cartoon character’s.
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