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: A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love (Peter Holley/Texas Monthly). Seventy-year-old Albert Gilberti is living in Rutland Vermont, saw Sweetwater once while traveling through the area on a Greyhound bus about 10 years ago, and is looking for a sincere, honest, loyal woman who loves singing karaoke as much as he does.
video: Infinite Flower Garden (Nikolaus Baumgarten). It loops around, through night, dawn, day, evening, in about 5 minutes.
video/slides: Transforming a Tiny New-Build Garden Into a Tiny Cottage Garden (Charlotte’s Garden/TikTok). Amazing! View as video or you can scroll through each slide (and there are many).
list: 101 Additional Advices (Kevin Kelley/The Technium). Good advice from a man who’s just turning 73. Some of my faves: Whenever you hug someone, be the last to let go • Read a lot of history so you can understand how weird the past was; that way you will be comfortable with how weird the future will be • Once a month take a different route home, enter your house by a different door, and sit in a different chair at dinner. No ruts. • Where you live—what city, what country—has more impact on your well being than any other factor • Most arguments are not really about the argument, so most arguments can’t be won by arguing • Do not cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it • Discover people whom you love doing “nothing” with, and do nothing with them on a regular basis • Very small things accumulate until they define your larger life. Carefully choose your everyday things.
article: Tiny Places For Tiny Animals: Building The Microhabitats That Bugs Need To Thrive (Matthew Shepherd/Xerces Society). Mainly, remember that ‘dead’ plant materials are the perfect home for pollinators to live in, so leave the leaves, save the stems (and don’t remove them – bees live in them all year), and build brush piles.
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