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Long retired software developer. Serial dabbler in music, art, photography. Used to believe climate change was a slow motion train wreck. Don't think it's all that slow anymore.
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In need of a small getaway from the daily OmiNOus? This should be required viewing for anyone with kids or anyone who knows someone with kids or who wants kids or even just saw a kid once. Or a bear and a mouse. It's delightful. #shortfilm #storytelling

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"We attend also to the world's extraordinary surprise: its refusal to quit, the weed flowering in the tar, the way beauty and brokenness so often go together. If we are among the lucky [...] we are shaped, spontaneously, by gratitude." – Jan Zwicky, "Learning To Die"

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This is the most accurate and up-to-date summary of aphantasia I've come across. And it mentions the effects of #aphantasia on emotion and memory (in my experience, far more difficult aspects of this than the mere lack of mental imagery).

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Seem familiar. . . ?

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“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed the standard of our behavior toward the world – to the incalculable disadvantage of the world and every living thing in it." – W. Berry

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🫂 Rise : from one island 🇲🇭 to another 🇬🇱 vimeo.com/289482525

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“The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a ‘practical’ point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.” Wendell Berry, 1968

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"There is widespread disregard for the rule of international law, and also a very clear pushback on the science[.]"

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My one and only resolution for 2025: I resolve to break this resolution.

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A New Year's Eve improvisation from back in 2018. "Just like the year, it ain't perfect but it could have been a lot worse."

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“Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.” [youtube.com]

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Two milestones of sorts for the #Climate in 2024. For the first time: the yearly average anomaly will exceed +1.5C and the 30-year average will exceed +1.0C (pink highlights show when the other periods did). [Data: HadCRUT5 Analysis, global land/sea air temps, infilled; 12/19/2024]

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'A' Is For Art –– photo taken November, 2007.

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A statue of the Buddha petting his dog Koan.

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A story of two old friends, old lovers, meeting, holding back and then succumbing to a brief rush of old emotions before returning to their current lives, all with just 5 notes.

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Hahaha ✅ Lololol 🚫

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Got #polyrhythm?

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Your 'doom quote' for today: "Hope is what keeps us chained to the system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is causing the destruction of the Earth." orionmagazine.org/article/beyo...

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Before they were assimilated, you used to be able to record your thoughts using devices like this. This one belonged to my dad and, before that, his dad. [I took this photo back in 2014.]

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Urban Fossil. [A photo I took back in 2009. It's a negative of grooves cut into a sidewalk.]

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My curated "Late Night Jazz" playlist (8+ hours). Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Yb... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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Not sure what to make of the obvious banding in the daily global Sea Surface Temperatures. It suggests a "ratcheting up" of values. What is obvious is that 2023-2024 are troubling outliers.

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This world – sometimes the best one can do is try to add a little beauty to it, yes? Here's my 1 minute contribution ...

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