landscape architect. circumnavigator. deep roots in Oregon. “always wants a smorgasbord of opportunities and delights.” lurk both ways.
Portland, Oregon
Joined March 2008
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“…might be gone for a year or ten…”
open.spotify.com/track/3vlHq…
I’ll give myself a deadline of solstice. 🥶
I’ll give myself a deadline of Friday before Christmas. 🥶
(This afternoon: I’ll give myself a deadline of NYE. 🤷🏼♀️)
I guess I’ll give myself a lifeline and say screw it—all can wait. Time to rest.
A lovely example of possibility:
I’m going to imagine he also thanked every American who sent packages of sunflower seeds to the Russian embassy in Washington D.C. 😏🌻 #Zelensky
Bethany Rydmark 🌻 retweeted
The Wexford Carol, Ireland's oldest carol dating back to the 15th century. Christmas carols here all this week 🎄
World Cupping, and hot cocoa-ing, and baking (cappuccino pavlova this time), and seven little third grade girls making pomanders to the soundtrack of @aarikdanielsen’s Warm Lights for the Holiday Season: open.spotify.com/playlist/58…
Cheer is here 🍊☕️🎄🎶⚽️✨
My special kind of self sabotage is doling out pedialyte and bone broth to members of my household while I go on eating See’s Famous Old Time CANDIES™ somehow hoping I escape the plague.
Yesterday, just down the way from a job site, this favorite oak of mine.
“Be an outcast;
Be pleased to walk alone
(Uncool)
Or line the crowded
River beds
With other impetuous
Fools.”
- Alice Walker
For all these things, thanks.
Savoring D.L. Mayfield’s book Unruly Saint:
“2. Modern society calls the beggar
bum and panhandler
and gives him the bum’s rush.
But the Greeks used to say
that people in need
are the ambassadors of the gods.”
-Peter Maurin
Spotify Wrapped, but for number of childhood hours spent listening to Adventures in Odyssey, Focus on the Family, and Rush Limbaugh. (“That’s more than 88% of other listeners in the United States.”)
On morphing.
“One of the most radical aspects of the Village is its insistence that a person with Alzheimer’s is not just diminishing into the sum of her symptoms, but flourishing and evolving as a human being until the end.”
newyorker.com/culture/annals…
h/t @legalnomads
Bethany Rydmark 🌻 retweeted
Anna Kjellander is knitting a beauty, created with 71 shades of mushroom dyed yarn. Wow!
annakj.se
