midnightembers
@tomschloegel.bsky.social
Stories will still be telling themselves at sunrise
Ithaca, NY
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@tomschloegel.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Recipes for life (for the post-tragic post-doomer) 🧵
*It doesn't have to be this way...*
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
June 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
*It doesn't have to be this way...*
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
You don’t need to scan the news to know that times are very tough… If you worry about maintaining your resilience as discontinuity continues to grow… If you think you may be the only one thinking a certain way about the future…
“The essence of biodiversity is that diversity gives rise to stability.”
This was one of my favourite episodes yet.
So much potential to empower people, ensure justice, and bring back biodiversity (biocomplexity) through convivial ecological restoration.
Answers to most of our current predicaments are already available if people would just engage and work together.
So much potential to empower people, ensure justice, and bring back biodiversity (biocomplexity) through convivial ecological restoration.
Answers to most of our current predicaments are already available if people would just engage and work together.
Full episode:
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/177-...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/177-...
May 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“The essence of biodiversity is that diversity gives rise to stability.”
Former forest beginning a path towards food…
May 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Former forest beginning a path towards food…
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Contentment is sexy.
Discernment is sexy.
March 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Contentment is sexy.
“A play with no men and no boats” !!
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
May 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“A play with no men and no boats” !!
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
It was hilarious.
Watching a dozen young actors exuberantly having fun was a tonic to current events for sure.
#ithaca
Station Eleven (the novel) first take: In the end I did not enjoy the overall experience. Unfortunately. I hate the idea that some people would act thus. My irrational desire is that humans are kind and caring, even in the worst moments. To be sure, it’s a wonderfully crafted novel. Much to savor.
Station Eleven finally, eleven years after its release. (High expectations being met.)
Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more.
I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.
Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more.
I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.
May 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Station Eleven (the novel) first take: In the end I did not enjoy the overall experience. Unfortunately. I hate the idea that some people would act thus. My irrational desire is that humans are kind and caring, even in the worst moments. To be sure, it’s a wonderfully crafted novel. Much to savor.
Resource war on.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
May 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Resource war on.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
Offense takes pressure off Defense.
The Ukraine mineral deal to be managed by DFC. U.S. public-private sovereign wealth fund knows how to play ball.
That’s one federal agency that won’t see cuts. A nice big private sector money funnel too.
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Station Eleven finally, eleven years after its release. (High expectations being met.)
Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more.
I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.
Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more.
I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.
April 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Station Eleven finally, eleven years after its release. (High expectations being met.)
Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more.
I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.
Planting cherry and birch and dogwood and more.
I feel resonance between the two and both offer some A and some B.
Two years ago this was a jungle of privet, honeysuckle, barberry and more. Saving pines that we can, and adding birch, chestnut, dogwood, cherry, plus understory food for us and birds. Dead elm down today - looks like 34 rings. What will the world be like 30 years from now?
April 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Two years ago this was a jungle of privet, honeysuckle, barberry and more. Saving pines that we can, and adding birch, chestnut, dogwood, cherry, plus understory food for us and birds. Dead elm down today - looks like 34 rings. What will the world be like 30 years from now?
Get yourself a neighbor who lends you his tractor to clean up after the storm.
April 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Get yourself a neighbor who lends you his tractor to clean up after the storm.
A healthy local ecosystem, and we’re doing what we can to assist.
April 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A healthy local ecosystem, and we’re doing what we can to assist.
"Fragility is what happens when a local government is overextended, under-resourced, and deeply dependent on decisions made far away."
@strongtowns.org: You have not posted a direct link to this final segment in your city finance series - the most effective of the batch IMHO - on your feed.
@strongtowns.org: You have not posted a direct link to this final segment in your city finance series - the most effective of the batch IMHO - on your feed.
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Fragility is what happens when a local government is overextended, under-resourced, and deeply dependent on decisions made far away."
@strongtowns.org: You have not posted a direct link to this final segment in your city finance series - the most effective of the batch IMHO - on your feed.
@strongtowns.org: You have not posted a direct link to this final segment in your city finance series - the most effective of the batch IMHO - on your feed.
Lots of headwinds in lots of cities. I wonder how many worried people in #ithaca are working on resilience and adaptation.
I'd love to see a deep dive on fragile municipal finances in the US, that also takes seriously the multiple ways in which local finances/capacities are being undermined by climate impacts and brittleness stresses.
This isn't that, but it's good on its own terms:
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
This isn't that, but it's good on its own terms:
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
The Opposite of Strong Isn’t Weak. It’s Dependent.
Fragile cities are overextended, under-resourced, and deeply dependent on decisions made far away. New York City and Salt Lake City show us what this looks like.
www.strongtowns.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Lots of headwinds in lots of cities. I wonder how many worried people in #ithaca are working on resilience and adaptation.
Slept on “Poetry is not a Luxury” and coffee with “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Yes and yes. “Death is the final silence.” “Of what had I ever been afraid.” Feelings as spawning ground for radical, daring ideas. Poetry leading to change, a bridge to meaningful action.
April 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Slept on “Poetry is not a Luxury” and coffee with “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Yes and yes. “Death is the final silence.” “Of what had I ever been afraid.” Feelings as spawning ground for radical, daring ideas. Poetry leading to change, a bridge to meaningful action.
Talk loudly and carry a big stick.
Stumbled on a phrase that fits my estimate of events beginning last fall: “conditional bilateralism.” VERY conditional. A new umbrella with the US as QB, RB, offensive line, coach, team & league owner. Ground dominance through vertical integration and control of energy and minerals. Resource war on.
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Talk loudly and carry a big stick.
Kidding. But it wouldn’t surprise anyone if true.
There’s an RFK hippo story too?!
April 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Kidding. But it wouldn’t surprise anyone if true.
Stumbled on a phrase that fits my estimate of events beginning last fall: “conditional bilateralism.” VERY conditional. A new umbrella with the US as QB, RB, offensive line, coach, team & league owner. Ground dominance through vertical integration and control of energy and minerals. Resource war on.
April 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Stumbled on a phrase that fits my estimate of events beginning last fall: “conditional bilateralism.” VERY conditional. A new umbrella with the US as QB, RB, offensive line, coach, team & league owner. Ground dominance through vertical integration and control of energy and minerals. Resource war on.
From Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
April 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
From Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
A phrase I find myself using and thinking all the time.
Good clean fun; an antidote.
April 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Good clean fun; an antidote.
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"The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter." — Matsuo Basho
April 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter." — Matsuo Basho
Relevant today, and will inevitably continue to grow in relevance. Adopting a healthy psychological orientation to all the dooms is recommended.
Recipes for life (for the post-tragic post-doomer) 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Relevant today, and will inevitably continue to grow in relevance. Adopting a healthy psychological orientation to all the dooms is recommended.
“It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.”
- Joanna Macy
- Joanna Macy
April 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.”
- Joanna Macy
- Joanna Macy
"I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
March 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Wonderful photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten)