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Thursday, June 24, 2004
dusk beneath douglas
i sit in my spot, big doug fir root in the small of my back. high enough to see across the lake , into the marsh, through the trees; on the aural periphery of the farmhouse, the barns, the field below, and the vast bordered view before me. blackbird. chirp. twee---.ererii (rising in sylables). ch.ch.ch.ch.ch. mosquito. wooden spoon on a metal bowl. bhaaaaa. oh-er-ee. wind making small waves in the water with hit against the lakeshore plants. mosquitos with black and white striped legs, small and fast: mosquitos from japan or vice versa. ... how to walk gently, which is to observe. to be sure of ones steps, because you, with a thinking head and heart and spirit and truth, are going that way.
the way the path the flow. and sometimes one must paddle hard to not smash upon the rocks again. (to stand in the freezing water and break yourself on a riddle of your own making.
To dream; to pan the living clay you are and find gold in it.) and sometimes, it is a sweet floating sunday afternoon.
birds seem to mate, to partner and pair. i wonder if some stay together, and some split ways. i wonder if these are the details they chat about in the trees together, sing across the lake at dusk. and then i listen. gentle sparce ch-- ch-- ch--. they hear me listening and quieten down, like that brainwave monitor that murray was talking about where they connect your brain to some machine which is makes sound sustained by a single brainwave; when the brainwave fails, the sound changes or stop.
now that i have carried myself away again they have continued. and fall quiet.
southwest wind. warm. the trollump of horses hooves resonates through the groundwater. the splash of a fish jump. the sound of small waves hitting the long expanse of firm log. the world begins to take on orange hues. My friend, Corey, once said that writing in a negiation with God. First, it is god's word, and they are not yours. Then, you write, and say, Oh please, just let this flow, please God let me use these words to translate my thought. I will give them all back when I am done, I just need them for a moment. So then one day God asks for them all back. But, well, they're yours now and no one can take them away because you wrote them down.
blackbird trill. female i think. tree bird soliloquay. soliloquies of wind and breeze (saul williams). little marsh bird. a pair of ducks agree and pull off the water. little tree bird. frogs begin. water lapping on cattails and hardhack. little tree bird. big tree songbird. frogs. light dims. pen seems to fade. the continual cycle of something into nothing and back out again.
my garden
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i currently subscribe fully to biodiversity and intercropping. and height. the towers of flowers; the soundtrack of my garden is
bbzzzzzzzz crunch crunch (thats me) bbbbzzzzzz zz (thats bumbling bumblebees).
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
nihon jin, koko ga ii
konichi wa mina san
hello everyone.
it is a few days after solstice now,
hot in June.
here are a few pictures from this summer,
please make comments
(comments are like an email),
if you want.
gomen na,
hoka ni no ingo ga musakashi,
it is all just notes from school
and omoshiroi janai!
the school is very interesting, i love it.
to see the Linnaea
website, click on the word Linnaea
Linnaea.
the colored words are links. Click on any of them.
I live in a big farmhouse on a lake
with many beautiful friends
seikin
scossi adventure scuta.
watashi no tomodachi, Dylan-san, atarashi no uchi kata.
so, I went to see, and help him.
His house is beautiful, on a cliff, on the ocean, on the Sunshine Coast.
Koko made, asoko kara, ferry boat ga nai.
dakara, hitchhiking scuta!!!
hitchhiking a boat wa sugoi muzakashi yo!
but i made it. I got a ride on a boat, and made it to Dylans house, in time for the sunset on the beach.
i miss Japan and all of you.
more soon.
enjoy!
hello everyone.
it is a few days after solstice now,
hot in June.
here are a few pictures from this summer,
please make comments
(comments are like an email),
if you want.
gomen na,
hoka ni no ingo ga musakashi,
it is all just notes from school
and omoshiroi janai!
the school is very interesting, i love it.
to see the Linnaea
website, click on the word Linnaea
Linnaea.
the colored words are links. Click on any of them.
I live in a big farmhouse on a lake
with many beautiful friends
seikin
scossi adventure scuta.
watashi no tomodachi, Dylan-san, atarashi no uchi kata.
so, I went to see, and help him.
His house is beautiful, on a cliff, on the ocean, on the Sunshine Coast.
Koko made, asoko kara, ferry boat ga nai.
dakara, hitchhiking scuta!!!
hitchhiking a boat wa sugoi muzakashi yo!
but i made it. I got a ride on a boat, and made it to Dylans house, in time for the sunset on the beach.
i miss Japan and all of you.
more soon.
enjoy!
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
notes fom This Organic Life
by Joan Dye Gussow.
this book was okay. she talks about eating locally and seasonally. with lots of recipes and cute tales.
Rasberry Syrup
2.5 pints raspberry juice
2 pounds sugar
1 pint water
mash berries well and strain through jelly bag. place sugar in preserving kettle, add water, place over fire, and stir until dissolved, then boil until clear and skim. Let syrup boil again until a soft ball is formed in cold water, then slowly add the fruit juice. Boil again. Skim and pour into hot sterilized jars.
Joans Pear Chutney Kosenko
mix:
4 pears, cut in 1"dice
1 cup light raisins
1 cup cider vigengar
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp each ginger, cinnamon, allspice
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 fresh green or dried red chillies, chopped
1 medium onion.
bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, for 30 mins.
spoon into hot sterilized jars.
pg 148
Most of us dont live, or dont want to live where coal or chrome or copper or gravel are wrenched from the earth to provide us with heat or toasters or wiring or foundations, so the costs to the earth and to its living skin where those things are mined remain invisible to us. So does the true cost of our food, produced around the world often by people who are too poor to eat well, on cropland they might pther wise use to feed themselves. We can resist by participating in this pillage by living frugally, buying and replacing as few material objects as possible, and by trying to eat from farms close to home. In the garden, I figure, we can do it by not stealing topsoil from somewhere else, but by building it ourselves.
pg160
The idea that the earth would be a more fruitful place if all of us stopped eating animals and their products is simply wrong. this is so, among other reasons, because ruminants (animals who have bacteria in their guts that allow them to make use of plant matter that humans cant digest) can graze land not suitable for growing crops.
pg161
Everytime any of us eats we are benefitting from the killing of something- insects, birds, animals, even humans, - not just the plants we put into our mouth. Death is one of the true costs of our food. Death does not come merely to animals trapped, shot, or poisoned by farmers protecting their crops. It comes as well to creatures whose life spaces and local ecosystems are usurped by the vast monocultures of modern agriculture. Death also comes to workers and their children, forced to enter fields too recently sprayed with pesticides, to women and children going hungry as the food they grow is sold north for badly needed cash, to peasant families left without income as a multinational company refuses as `below standard` a broccoli crop intended for our freezers.
pg 184
"The homegrown tomato requires no fuel in its transport, no packaging to be sent to the landfull, no political decisions about who will be allowed to work the fields or what level of polutants is acceptable in our groundwater." John Jeavons
Spicy Fried Egg and Tomato
chop fine
1 mild green chilli, (anahiem, poblano)
fry lightly in corn oil
stir in
1 tsp cumin, (or more)
fry another minute.
half
8 big ripe luscious homegrown tomatoes
add to pan with salt and pepper
fry lightly on both sides.
fry the eggs in that oil and serve.
Panzella
in a large bowl combine
1 lb tomatoes
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh basil
garlic
5 tsp olive oil
salt and pepper
1 1/2 cups stale italian or other good bread, soaked in water for 15 mins and squeezed dry.
toss to blend, season to taste
pg 190
...of 497 varieties of lettuce commercialy available in 1903, only 36 remained in 1980; 7 of 109 varieties of spinach; 79 of 408 varieties of tomatoe remained.
Tomatoe Glut Sauce
preheat oven to 400
in a large roasting pan
6 lbs tomatoes, quartered
1 1/2 cups coarsely cut carrrots
1 1/2 cups coarsely cut celery
1 1/2 cups " onions
9 cloves garlic or more
6 tbsp balsalmic vinegar
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 each frsh thyme, oregano, basil, parsley
salt pepper
roast for 45 mins, or until soft. process briefly to leave slightly chuncky. freeze in 2 cup portions. makes 4 lbs.
Sri Lankan Cabbage
(Kumar Rupesinghe)
thinly slice 2 + onions,
saute in butter or olive oil
add
1 tsp tumeric
several whole cardamon pods
some cloves
3 cloves garlic, chopped fine
when onions soft add
1 head thinly sliced cabbage.
fry till tender.
add a little salt to taste.
Baked Grated Carrots
preheat oven 350
in a casserole pan
3-4cups grated carrots
pour over them
2 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
salt
1 tbsp chopped chives
1 tbsp sherry.
bake 30 mins
Blue and Green Potatoe Salad
boil in their skins 8 - 10 blue potatoes.
drain cut in 1/2" cubes
cut in similar sizes
2 cucs
roast
1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
crush
toss all together with
salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
pepper
red pepper
1/4 cup firmly packed fresh mint leaves, coarsely chopped
do not refridgerate.
this book was okay. she talks about eating locally and seasonally. with lots of recipes and cute tales.
Rasberry Syrup
2.5 pints raspberry juice
2 pounds sugar
1 pint water
mash berries well and strain through jelly bag. place sugar in preserving kettle, add water, place over fire, and stir until dissolved, then boil until clear and skim. Let syrup boil again until a soft ball is formed in cold water, then slowly add the fruit juice. Boil again. Skim and pour into hot sterilized jars.
Joans Pear Chutney Kosenko
mix:
4 pears, cut in 1"dice
1 cup light raisins
1 cup cider vigengar
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp each ginger, cinnamon, allspice
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 fresh green or dried red chillies, chopped
1 medium onion.
bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, for 30 mins.
spoon into hot sterilized jars.
pg 148
Most of us dont live, or dont want to live where coal or chrome or copper or gravel are wrenched from the earth to provide us with heat or toasters or wiring or foundations, so the costs to the earth and to its living skin where those things are mined remain invisible to us. So does the true cost of our food, produced around the world often by people who are too poor to eat well, on cropland they might pther wise use to feed themselves. We can resist by participating in this pillage by living frugally, buying and replacing as few material objects as possible, and by trying to eat from farms close to home. In the garden, I figure, we can do it by not stealing topsoil from somewhere else, but by building it ourselves.
pg160
The idea that the earth would be a more fruitful place if all of us stopped eating animals and their products is simply wrong. this is so, among other reasons, because ruminants (animals who have bacteria in their guts that allow them to make use of plant matter that humans cant digest) can graze land not suitable for growing crops.
pg161
Everytime any of us eats we are benefitting from the killing of something- insects, birds, animals, even humans, - not just the plants we put into our mouth. Death is one of the true costs of our food. Death does not come merely to animals trapped, shot, or poisoned by farmers protecting their crops. It comes as well to creatures whose life spaces and local ecosystems are usurped by the vast monocultures of modern agriculture. Death also comes to workers and their children, forced to enter fields too recently sprayed with pesticides, to women and children going hungry as the food they grow is sold north for badly needed cash, to peasant families left without income as a multinational company refuses as `below standard` a broccoli crop intended for our freezers.
pg 184
"The homegrown tomato requires no fuel in its transport, no packaging to be sent to the landfull, no political decisions about who will be allowed to work the fields or what level of polutants is acceptable in our groundwater." John Jeavons
Spicy Fried Egg and Tomato
chop fine
1 mild green chilli, (anahiem, poblano)
fry lightly in corn oil
stir in
1 tsp cumin, (or more)
fry another minute.
half
8 big ripe luscious homegrown tomatoes
add to pan with salt and pepper
fry lightly on both sides.
fry the eggs in that oil and serve.
Panzella
in a large bowl combine
1 lb tomatoes
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh basil
garlic
5 tsp olive oil
salt and pepper
1 1/2 cups stale italian or other good bread, soaked in water for 15 mins and squeezed dry.
toss to blend, season to taste
pg 190
...of 497 varieties of lettuce commercialy available in 1903, only 36 remained in 1980; 7 of 109 varieties of spinach; 79 of 408 varieties of tomatoe remained.
Tomatoe Glut Sauce
preheat oven to 400
in a large roasting pan
6 lbs tomatoes, quartered
1 1/2 cups coarsely cut carrrots
1 1/2 cups coarsely cut celery
1 1/2 cups " onions
9 cloves garlic or more
6 tbsp balsalmic vinegar
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 each frsh thyme, oregano, basil, parsley
salt pepper
roast for 45 mins, or until soft. process briefly to leave slightly chuncky. freeze in 2 cup portions. makes 4 lbs.
Sri Lankan Cabbage
(Kumar Rupesinghe)
thinly slice 2 + onions,
saute in butter or olive oil
add
1 tsp tumeric
several whole cardamon pods
some cloves
3 cloves garlic, chopped fine
when onions soft add
1 head thinly sliced cabbage.
fry till tender.
add a little salt to taste.
Baked Grated Carrots
preheat oven 350
in a casserole pan
3-4cups grated carrots
pour over them
2 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
salt
1 tbsp chopped chives
1 tbsp sherry.
bake 30 mins
Blue and Green Potatoe Salad
boil in their skins 8 - 10 blue potatoes.
drain cut in 1/2" cubes
cut in similar sizes
2 cucs
roast
1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
crush
toss all together with
salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
pepper
red pepper
1/4 cup firmly packed fresh mint leaves, coarsely chopped
do not refridgerate.
Sunday, June 20, 2004
notes from The Botany of Desire
pg 17;
Like a shimmering equal sign, the word sweetness denoted a reality commensureate with human desire: it stood for fullfillment.
pg 37
the Greeks regarded Dionysus as the antithesis of Apollo, god of clear boundaries, order, and light, of mans firm control over nature. Dionysian revelry melts every Apollian line. By worshipping Dionysus and getting drunk on his wine, the Athenians temporarity returned to nature, to a time when, as the classicist Jane Harrison writes, "man is still to his won thinking brother of plants and animals," The odd, escatic worship of Dionysus, which needed no temple, always took place outside the city, returning religion to the weeds where it had begun.
Dionysus brought wild plants into the house of civilization (as the god of propogation, cultivation, apple trees), but by the same token his own untamed presence reminded people of the untamed nature on which that house always rests, somewhat unsteadily.
pg 105
The tulip is a flower that draws some of the most exquisite lines in nature, and then, in spazms of extravagance, blithely oversteps them. On the same principle, syncopation enlivens a regular, four-four mesure of music, enjambment of the stately line iambic pentameter. So here is a third constituent of beauty to add to the desiderata offered to us by the flower: first came contrast, then pattern (or form), and finally variation.
Great art is born when Apollion form and Dionysian ecstacy are held in balance, ehen our dreams of order and abandon come together.
pg 143
[If someone wrote a book on the natural history of world religion] it would force us to rethink the relation of metter and spirit~ specifically, plant matter and human spirituality. For it would tell how a select group of psychoactive plants and fungi were present at the creation of several of the worlds religions.
the power of plants to transcend the here and now and insuce ecstacy - to take them elsewhere. Ethnobotonists call them entheogens, meaning the god within.
In the same way the human desire for beauty and sweetness introduced into the world a new survival strategy for the plants that could gratify it, the human hunger for transcendence created new opportunituies for another group of plants, No entheogenic plant or fungus ever set out to make molecules for the express purpose of inspiring visions in humans - combating pests is the more likely motive. But the moment humans discovered what these molecules could do for them this wholly inadvertent magic, the plants that made them suddenly had a brilliant new way to prosper. and drom that moment on this is exactly what the plants with the strongest magic did.
pg163
"Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by," Neitsche begins an 1876 essay called "The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life".... a moving and occasionally hilarious paean to the virtues of forgetting, which he maintains is a prerequisite to human happiness, mental health and action.
What Neitzsche is describing is a kind of transcendence - a mental state of complete and utter absorption well known to artists, athletes, gamblers, muscian, dancers, mystics, meditatiors, and the devout in prayer. Something very like it can occur during sex too, or while under the influence of certain drugs. It is a state that depends for its effect on losing oneself in the moment, usually by training powerful, depthless concentration on One Big Thing. (Or, in Eastern tradition, One Big Nothing.) If you imagine conscioiusness as a kind of lens through which we percieve the world, the drastic contricting of its field of vision seems to heighten the vividness of whatever remains in the circle of perception, while everything else (including our awareness of the lens itself) falls away.
Awakening to this present instant, a Zen master has written, we realize the infinite is in the finite of each instant.
Yet we cant get there from here without first forgetting.
pg 166
"Nature always wears the color of the spirit," Emerson wrote, by which he meant we never see the world plainly, only through the filter of prior concepts or metaphors. ("Colors," in classical rhetoric, are tropes.)
pg 167
Or that exceptionally delicious spoonful of vanilla ice cream - ice cream! - parting the drab curtains of the quotidian to reveal, what? = the heartrendingly sweet significance of cream, yes, bearing us all thw way back to the breast. Not to mention the never-before-adequately-appreciated wonder of: vanilla! How astonishing is it that we happen to inhabit a universe in which this quality of vanilla-ness, - this bean! - happens to reside?? How easily could it have been otherwise, and just where would we be, where would chocolate be? without that singular irreplaceable note, that middle C on the Scale of Archetypal Flavors? (Paging Dr. Plato!) For the first time in your journey on this planet you ae fully appreciating Vanilla in all its italicized and caoitalized significance. Until, that is, the next epiphany comes along ( kiwis, chairs, breeze) and the one about ice cream is blown away like a leaf on the breeze of free association.
...They may well be banal, but that doesnt mean they arent also at the same time profound.
Marijauna dissolves this apperent contradiction by making us temporarily forget most of the baggage we usually bring to perception, our aquired sense of familiarity and banality. For what is a sense of banality but a defense against the overwhelming (or at least whelming) power of fresh experience?
*Banality depends on memory; as do irony and abstraction and boredom; three other defences the educated mind deploys against experience so that it can get through the day without being continually, exhaustingly astonished.
pg 245
"this is the assembly of life that it took a billion years to evolve," the biologist E.O.Wilson has written, speaking of biodiverstiy. "It has eaten the storms - folded then into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady." To risk this multiplicity is to risk unstring the world.
Like a shimmering equal sign, the word sweetness denoted a reality commensureate with human desire: it stood for fullfillment.
pg 37
the Greeks regarded Dionysus as the antithesis of Apollo, god of clear boundaries, order, and light, of mans firm control over nature. Dionysian revelry melts every Apollian line. By worshipping Dionysus and getting drunk on his wine, the Athenians temporarity returned to nature, to a time when, as the classicist Jane Harrison writes, "man is still to his won thinking brother of plants and animals," The odd, escatic worship of Dionysus, which needed no temple, always took place outside the city, returning religion to the weeds where it had begun.
Dionysus brought wild plants into the house of civilization (as the god of propogation, cultivation, apple trees), but by the same token his own untamed presence reminded people of the untamed nature on which that house always rests, somewhat unsteadily.
pg 105
The tulip is a flower that draws some of the most exquisite lines in nature, and then, in spazms of extravagance, blithely oversteps them. On the same principle, syncopation enlivens a regular, four-four mesure of music, enjambment of the stately line iambic pentameter. So here is a third constituent of beauty to add to the desiderata offered to us by the flower: first came contrast, then pattern (or form), and finally variation.
Great art is born when Apollion form and Dionysian ecstacy are held in balance, ehen our dreams of order and abandon come together.
pg 143
[If someone wrote a book on the natural history of world religion] it would force us to rethink the relation of metter and spirit~ specifically, plant matter and human spirituality. For it would tell how a select group of psychoactive plants and fungi were present at the creation of several of the worlds religions.
the power of plants to transcend the here and now and insuce ecstacy - to take them elsewhere. Ethnobotonists call them entheogens, meaning the god within.
In the same way the human desire for beauty and sweetness introduced into the world a new survival strategy for the plants that could gratify it, the human hunger for transcendence created new opportunituies for another group of plants, No entheogenic plant or fungus ever set out to make molecules for the express purpose of inspiring visions in humans - combating pests is the more likely motive. But the moment humans discovered what these molecules could do for them this wholly inadvertent magic, the plants that made them suddenly had a brilliant new way to prosper. and drom that moment on this is exactly what the plants with the strongest magic did.
pg163
"Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by," Neitsche begins an 1876 essay called "The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life".... a moving and occasionally hilarious paean to the virtues of forgetting, which he maintains is a prerequisite to human happiness, mental health and action.
What Neitzsche is describing is a kind of transcendence - a mental state of complete and utter absorption well known to artists, athletes, gamblers, muscian, dancers, mystics, meditatiors, and the devout in prayer. Something very like it can occur during sex too, or while under the influence of certain drugs. It is a state that depends for its effect on losing oneself in the moment, usually by training powerful, depthless concentration on One Big Thing. (Or, in Eastern tradition, One Big Nothing.) If you imagine conscioiusness as a kind of lens through which we percieve the world, the drastic contricting of its field of vision seems to heighten the vividness of whatever remains in the circle of perception, while everything else (including our awareness of the lens itself) falls away.
Awakening to this present instant, a Zen master has written, we realize the infinite is in the finite of each instant.
Yet we cant get there from here without first forgetting.
pg 166
"Nature always wears the color of the spirit," Emerson wrote, by which he meant we never see the world plainly, only through the filter of prior concepts or metaphors. ("Colors," in classical rhetoric, are tropes.)
pg 167
Or that exceptionally delicious spoonful of vanilla ice cream - ice cream! - parting the drab curtains of the quotidian to reveal, what? = the heartrendingly sweet significance of cream, yes, bearing us all thw way back to the breast. Not to mention the never-before-adequately-appreciated wonder of: vanilla! How astonishing is it that we happen to inhabit a universe in which this quality of vanilla-ness, - this bean! - happens to reside?? How easily could it have been otherwise, and just where would we be, where would chocolate be? without that singular irreplaceable note, that middle C on the Scale of Archetypal Flavors? (Paging Dr. Plato!) For the first time in your journey on this planet you ae fully appreciating Vanilla in all its italicized and caoitalized significance. Until, that is, the next epiphany comes along ( kiwis, chairs, breeze) and the one about ice cream is blown away like a leaf on the breeze of free association.
...They may well be banal, but that doesnt mean they arent also at the same time profound.
Marijauna dissolves this apperent contradiction by making us temporarily forget most of the baggage we usually bring to perception, our aquired sense of familiarity and banality. For what is a sense of banality but a defense against the overwhelming (or at least whelming) power of fresh experience?
*Banality depends on memory; as do irony and abstraction and boredom; three other defences the educated mind deploys against experience so that it can get through the day without being continually, exhaustingly astonished.
pg 245
"this is the assembly of life that it took a billion years to evolve," the biologist E.O.Wilson has written, speaking of biodiverstiy. "It has eaten the storms - folded then into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady." To risk this multiplicity is to risk unstring the world.
random eekings of olivers inspiration
so these are some notes from olivers class. and other ramblings. check out his website, specifically the weblog, for the good shit.
this is fierce gillie with her giggle on.
radially symeterics and the bilaterals
you*re so monocotic
dicotic
pull the pistil and suck on the ovary
commensalism; one benefits, the other is not harmed
colonizing time
the avidity of annuals
the great kanke nai
tragedy as impetus.
ad-hocricies.
lawns are just a metaphor,
same as hair.
if you are growing food, you are not a victim.
worms love tofu
like homeopathy, a little input goes a long way.
azmith; degrees with south as 0.
hellacious
compost is a shrappnal aproach.
this is fierce gillie with her giggle on.
radially symeterics and the bilaterals
you*re so monocotic
dicotic
pull the pistil and suck on the ovary
commensalism; one benefits, the other is not harmed
colonizing time
the avidity of annuals
the great kanke nai
tragedy as impetus.
ad-hocricies.
lawns are just a metaphor,
same as hair.
if you are growing food, you are not a victim.
worms love tofu
like homeopathy, a little input goes a long way.
azmith; degrees with south as 0.
hellacious
compost is a shrappnal aproach.
shrubbery and other living biomass of note and notes
psuedosas japanica
japanese arrow bamboo.
the stuff of the deck at big blue
actinidia arguta
siberian hardy kiwi
sapwood is higher in N, fresh manure when green.
more balanced when mixed with sawdust
everbearing raspberries, heritage raspeberries, fall raspberries
meta-seqoia
dawn redwood.
ancient hardy tree, non-invasive, beautiful, Water Fir.
trifoliate orange
cold weather orange tree
malas fusca
wild crap apple, thorny. root stock
copper wire arrests canker
manjing cherry.
decasnia ferjesia
chinese blue bean tree.
sweet banana/ plum
wasabi
under shade cloth.
aquaphile. good drainage. high iron.
3 years to maturity.
chinese wolfberry
gauget wa tree, zi wa fruit
good for eyesight
edible leaves and berries, propogates from cuttings, likes a hard pruning
similar properties to astralagus
phisocarpus capitatus
pacific ninebark
verbena like shrub, ivory and rose flower balls, big and bouncy.
at the outer edge of wet ecosystem, with spirea and sweet gail.
used for knitting needles. kids bows and arrows.
buddlia
butterfly bush
robina
black locust
good firewood. cleans soil of toxins. fixes N. coppices.
ailianthus
Tree of Heaven
ghetto palm
artemsias
wormwood family.
european hornbeam tree. teardrop shape. type of iron wood. related to beach
tilia
linden tree. lil flowers - sweet soothing sweet yellow tree
sagitaria
edible tuber. arrowhead/ duck potatoe. wapito. buy the tuber in china town. perrenial. chi gwo.
japanese arrow bamboo.
the stuff of the deck at big blue
actinidia arguta
siberian hardy kiwi
sapwood is higher in N, fresh manure when green.
more balanced when mixed with sawdust
everbearing raspberries, heritage raspeberries, fall raspberries
meta-seqoia
dawn redwood.
ancient hardy tree, non-invasive, beautiful, Water Fir.
trifoliate orange
cold weather orange tree
malas fusca
wild crap apple, thorny. root stock
copper wire arrests canker
manjing cherry.
decasnia ferjesia
chinese blue bean tree.
sweet banana/ plum
wasabi
under shade cloth.
aquaphile. good drainage. high iron.
3 years to maturity.
chinese wolfberry
gauget wa tree, zi wa fruit
good for eyesight
edible leaves and berries, propogates from cuttings, likes a hard pruning
similar properties to astralagus
phisocarpus capitatus
pacific ninebark
verbena like shrub, ivory and rose flower balls, big and bouncy.
at the outer edge of wet ecosystem, with spirea and sweet gail.
used for knitting needles. kids bows and arrows.
buddlia
butterfly bush
robina
black locust
good firewood. cleans soil of toxins. fixes N. coppices.
ailianthus
Tree of Heaven
ghetto palm
artemsias
wormwood family.
european hornbeam tree. teardrop shape. type of iron wood. related to beach
tilia
linden tree. lil flowers - sweet soothing sweet yellow tree
sagitaria
edible tuber. arrowhead/ duck potatoe. wapito. buy the tuber in china town. perrenial. chi gwo.
random gatherings
lacing ideas like drumstrings
You have a better view when you know how big the box is. perameters.
Cats look you straight in the feet.
vails of Sweet Gail
living beneath the aurora.
the feral unfolding butterfly wings of an Ursa Major dream
maiden to the undulations
speaker of silence
repatriater of the perimeter
frauline of the west wing
30 Ways to Flip a Canoe
Fierce Gillie and the Feral Daffodills
its okay to be feral, to be a flower in the forest
humility
whorls of leaves reflect whirls of thought
the naivity of urban vegetarians thinking the monocultures of soybeans do not involve death
Everything gardens
Awakening to this present instant we realize the infinite is the finite of each instant
harm me with harmony
baraka. sufi. the force of grace, lightness, and beauty
the unbearable baraka of being
recreation; re-creation
ephemera
synthetic knowledge
positive use of negative space
the feral unfolding wings of an ursa minor dream
use feral sparingly
sometimes things are just so damn irrelevant and pretty
a whole color. A whole blue, and blue that contains every other blue within it, into a perfectly imperfect, solid, stable shade of blue.
an Iranian, and african, a canadian, and two japanese standing around a rooftop bonfire.
kino no gogo
honmono no me
dr pepper
a walk in the rain. face forward in the wind. the bamboo sings. i want to play the didge in honor of the troubles on this orb. the anger of the trees. the wind whips over this island: a prayer and a curse upon it.
filling the beats where they arent, but are.
the intimacy of doing the dishes. walking in on someone
alone
doing the dishes
last night a man attacked me with a gun in my dreams and i defended myself with a video camera
somnambulent
uxorious
if i am honest, i will admit to looking for your face in the streets below. looking for the beauty of my lover in the faces of the passersby. although you are not my lover, for the record, you are a coordinate of affection in this cosmos of anonimity.
toska
"when they finally sat down, their inner resources of life were excited by one anothers company and began to multiply, and among them was born the shared genius of vital sincerity and of happy rivalry in intellectual friendship."
concatention
chimera
patience is a chilly companion
zenzen onaji
the simple delight in continutity. continutity.
the Fingers Linger, and other sensory delights
a 2-4 dont go far, and other stories of the north
the subtle specificities
the sublime banalities
the polkadot chopstick
My friend, Corey, once said that writing in a negiation with God. First, it is god's word, and they are not yours. Then, you write, and say,' Oh please, just let this flow, please God let me use these words to translate my thought. I will give them all back when I am done, I just need them for a moment.' So then one day God asks for them all back. But, well, they're yours now and no one can take them away because you wrote them down.
when something breaks it makes a beautiful sound
face forward in the wind
wind and rain, erode me down to nothing but the finest strongest sculpture of myself.
effluvia; all the effluvia of married life flowed up and down through that opening, plus it served as an intercom
eco-gastronomy
intergenerational equity
aesthetic infastructure
memorandums of understanding
the true meaning of ephemera in the striped ankle warmers.
spockumentary.
renegade angiosperms
resistance is fertile.
humping the poodles leg
the well lubed tubers and the sweet beets.
the dyke-on daikon
You have a better view when you know how big the box is. perameters.
Cats look you straight in the feet.
vails of Sweet Gail
living beneath the aurora.
the feral unfolding butterfly wings of an Ursa Major dream
maiden to the undulations
speaker of silence
repatriater of the perimeter
frauline of the west wing
30 Ways to Flip a Canoe
Fierce Gillie and the Feral Daffodills
its okay to be feral, to be a flower in the forest
humility
whorls of leaves reflect whirls of thought
the naivity of urban vegetarians thinking the monocultures of soybeans do not involve death
Everything gardens
Awakening to this present instant we realize the infinite is the finite of each instant
harm me with harmony
baraka. sufi. the force of grace, lightness, and beauty
the unbearable baraka of being
recreation; re-creation
ephemera
synthetic knowledge
positive use of negative space
the feral unfolding wings of an ursa minor dream
use feral sparingly
sometimes things are just so damn irrelevant and pretty
a whole color. A whole blue, and blue that contains every other blue within it, into a perfectly imperfect, solid, stable shade of blue.
an Iranian, and african, a canadian, and two japanese standing around a rooftop bonfire.
kino no gogo
honmono no me
dr pepper
a walk in the rain. face forward in the wind. the bamboo sings. i want to play the didge in honor of the troubles on this orb. the anger of the trees. the wind whips over this island: a prayer and a curse upon it.
filling the beats where they arent, but are.
the intimacy of doing the dishes. walking in on someone
alone
doing the dishes
last night a man attacked me with a gun in my dreams and i defended myself with a video camera
somnambulent
uxorious
if i am honest, i will admit to looking for your face in the streets below. looking for the beauty of my lover in the faces of the passersby. although you are not my lover, for the record, you are a coordinate of affection in this cosmos of anonimity.
toska
"when they finally sat down, their inner resources of life were excited by one anothers company and began to multiply, and among them was born the shared genius of vital sincerity and of happy rivalry in intellectual friendship."
concatention
chimera
patience is a chilly companion
zenzen onaji
the simple delight in continutity. continutity.
the Fingers Linger, and other sensory delights
a 2-4 dont go far, and other stories of the north
the subtle specificities
the sublime banalities
the polkadot chopstick
My friend, Corey, once said that writing in a negiation with God. First, it is god's word, and they are not yours. Then, you write, and say,' Oh please, just let this flow, please God let me use these words to translate my thought. I will give them all back when I am done, I just need them for a moment.' So then one day God asks for them all back. But, well, they're yours now and no one can take them away because you wrote them down.
when something breaks it makes a beautiful sound
face forward in the wind
wind and rain, erode me down to nothing but the finest strongest sculpture of myself.
effluvia; all the effluvia of married life flowed up and down through that opening, plus it served as an intercom
eco-gastronomy
intergenerational equity
aesthetic infastructure
memorandums of understanding
the true meaning of ephemera in the striped ankle warmers.
spockumentary.
renegade angiosperms
resistance is fertile.
humping the poodles leg
the well lubed tubers and the sweet beets.
the dyke-on daikon
at Josees, june 15
Hypericum perforatum
topical, in oil; sciatica, nerves, sunburn, burns, anti-inflamitory.
internal; mild depression, seasonal disorders; stimulates serantonin.
Nettles
infusion for hair. nutritive. seeds- make vinegar. freeze like spinach. facial steam for oily skin.
releives food sensitivities.
Calendula
to make oil, wilt the flowers for a day to avoid rancidity.
skin. burns, cuts, insect bites. anti-inflamitory. nourishing. anti-fungal. anti-septic.
use tea like arnica.
Ratios.
wet 1:2 100g herb/ 200mL liquid
dry 1:5
Colic calmer; for stomachs. in glycerin. sweet.
catnip, fennel seed, mint, camomile
Dried herbs
nettle mint lemonbalm dandelion root, el campe root
Usnia; lichen, old mans beard
tinture 100%
strong anti-fungal, anti biotic.
Valerian root
internal, tincture or tea,
nerves, sleep anxiety.
with Skullcap for deep sleep. wait 3 years for root.
Red clover
for blood and lymphatic system
Plantain
skin, bites
Yellowdock
gets the bile going. good before eating.
liver, excema. IRON.
Marshmallow
leaf and root for coughs and lungs. skin. urinary tracts. nourishing. nourishes dry skin.
oil; daiper rash, skin. varicose viens
Astralagus
root. immune booster.
mixed with echinacea and propolis
Teasel
eye wash from tea.
itchy skin.
internal; liver and blood.
Stevia
hard to propogate. yummy yummy.
int; mental and physical fatigue
Angelica
biennial
root; cough syrup
seeds; indigestion liver
stock; candies
leaves; vegtable, use to wrap food.
Arnica;
use flower fresh, topically oil.
Bergamont
Ladies Mantle
internal; blood coagulation, bleeding, menstral, astingent, diarhea
tea of flower and leaf as douche for infections
Motherwort
menopause sleepy bouyancy
tea and tincture
Meadowsweet
digestion, goes well with to mellow bitters.
leaves like asprin.
shrub
Wormwood
bitter. bitter. bitter.
worms parasites anemia
Blue vervain.
Wood betony
ext; sore throat, mouth wash, hair rinse
internal; stress fear anxiety worry sedative
Skullcap
immunity
Hyssop
bitter. cough syrup. tea
Cylandine
bitter. liver. dye worts.
topical, in oil; sciatica, nerves, sunburn, burns, anti-inflamitory.
internal; mild depression, seasonal disorders; stimulates serantonin.
Nettles
infusion for hair. nutritive. seeds- make vinegar. freeze like spinach. facial steam for oily skin.
releives food sensitivities.
Calendula
to make oil, wilt the flowers for a day to avoid rancidity.
skin. burns, cuts, insect bites. anti-inflamitory. nourishing. anti-fungal. anti-septic.
use tea like arnica.
Ratios.
wet 1:2 100g herb/ 200mL liquid
dry 1:5
Colic calmer; for stomachs. in glycerin. sweet.
catnip, fennel seed, mint, camomile
Dried herbs
nettle mint lemonbalm dandelion root, el campe root
Usnia; lichen, old mans beard
tinture 100%
strong anti-fungal, anti biotic.
Valerian root
internal, tincture or tea,
nerves, sleep anxiety.
with Skullcap for deep sleep. wait 3 years for root.
Red clover
for blood and lymphatic system
Plantain
skin, bites
Yellowdock
gets the bile going. good before eating.
liver, excema. IRON.
Marshmallow
leaf and root for coughs and lungs. skin. urinary tracts. nourishing. nourishes dry skin.
oil; daiper rash, skin. varicose viens
Astralagus
root. immune booster.
mixed with echinacea and propolis
Teasel
eye wash from tea.
itchy skin.
internal; liver and blood.
Stevia
hard to propogate. yummy yummy.
int; mental and physical fatigue
Angelica
biennial
root; cough syrup
seeds; indigestion liver
stock; candies
leaves; vegtable, use to wrap food.
Arnica;
use flower fresh, topically oil.
Bergamont
Ladies Mantle
internal; blood coagulation, bleeding, menstral, astingent, diarhea
tea of flower and leaf as douche for infections
Motherwort
menopause sleepy bouyancy
tea and tincture
Meadowsweet
digestion, goes well with to mellow bitters.
leaves like asprin.
shrub
Wormwood
bitter. bitter. bitter.
worms parasites anemia
Blue vervain.
Wood betony
ext; sore throat, mouth wash, hair rinse
internal; stress fear anxiety worry sedative
Skullcap
immunity
Hyssop
bitter. cough syrup. tea
Cylandine
bitter. liver. dye worts.
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