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: What Happens When We Stop Remembering? : Confronted with her parents’ dementia and teenagers’ climate anxiety, one woman considers how our baselines shift in the face of personal — and global — loss. (Heidi Lasher/Orion). Poignant. “Shifting baselines is the idea that each successive generation will accept as ‘normal’ an increasingly degraded and disorganized ecology, until at some point in the future, no one will remember what a healthy ecology looks and feels like. … Maybe shifting baselines is simply a way to measure grief. Another way of saying that we hope our children will love the world as much as we do. And will miss us when we’re gone.”
article: Building a Three-Bin Compost System (Cass Marketos/The Rot). Design for building and locating a simple, inexpensive, easy to build, and efficient compost system. NEW! Blueprints for 3-Bin Compost
essay: Welcome home, Jib: A new friend in the dark (Kelton Wright/Shangrilogs). On bringing home a new dog. Sweet.
graphic essay: Things I Thought Made Sense Just Don’t Anymore (Mira Jacob/NYT gifted).
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