Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
photo essay: Wood Work (Dig Delve). What it says on the label. Including coppicing! And eco-piles, habitat for animals, fungi, beetles, etc.
essay: Be careful – #119: Worry, warning, and when things go wrong (Kelton Wright/Shangrilogs). “When [the cat] launches himself onto the beam, instead of saying be careful! I’ve started to say what’s your plan? The practice is for me, not for the New Mexican feline with bengal markings. The practice is for when the drum-and-bass-loving soccer player in my abdomen is released into the world full of gumption and grit and god knows what else. What’s your plan, little man?”
film noir videos: 60 Free Film Noir Movies (Open Culture). Some titles: They Made Me A Killer, Please Murder Me, Cause for Alarm!, The Limping Man, The Great Flamarian. FREE.
essay: Train Yourself to Always Show Up (Sharon Brous/NYT gifted link) “It is an expression of both love and sacred responsibility to turn to another person in her moment of deepest anguish and say: ‘Your sorrow may scare me, it may unsettle me. But I will not abandon you. I will meet your grief with relentless love.’” and “One of the great casualties of tribalism is curiosity. And when we are no longer curious, when we don’t try to imagine or understand what another person is thinking or feeling or where her pain comes from, our hearts begin to narrow.”
video: full video of Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs singing “Fast Car” at the Grammys (EZRider/Twitter) I’m not crying, etc.