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We are all gardeners

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Back to the Garden, Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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Pomo woman harvesting seeds, 1924, by Edward Curtis After a break for camping and other things, I’m returning to the series of posts I initiated a couple of weeks ago under the heading, Back to the Garden. While this series is meant to be practical, I have a little more “thoughtstyling” as we say around here before I turn to the hands-on material. Look for new series entries every Thursday. We are all gardeners. What does this mean? It’s a saying...

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Chicken of the Woods 2021

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Food, Foraging
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...te that should this mushroom show up on one of your trees you’ll want to hire an arborist as this fungus can cause serious structural problems. On the plus side you’ll have many gourmet meals. To review, eat the young growth, cook well and know the species of tree you’re harvesting from and you should be fine. Chicken of the woods is sort of a gateway to edible mushroom foraging as it’s one of the easiest wild mushrooms to identify. The only probl...

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An Awareness of What is Missing

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Thoughtstylings
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..., as this blog has lost ground to the short attention span and creepy data harvesting tentacles of Facebook and other social media platforms. So what can we do? Perhaps it’s futile, but I thought I’d devote some time in the next few weeks to developing skills that run counter to the prevailing technological winds. I’m hoping to, as George Clinton put it, “Free my mind so my ass will follow.” At the very least I’d like to enhance my own skills in t...

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The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

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Goats, Thoughtstylings
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...e, might lead us to conclude that it’s more about capital accumulation via harvesting our attention than connecting people as Zuck likes to claim. It might also lead us to consider the dreary, unpoetic qualities of much of the internet. If I were a good blogger in the, long past, golden age of blogging I’d conclude this post with a convenient listicle, “10 ways Heidegger can help you deal with your phone addiction.” But, to do so, would fall into...

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