I’m sitting in the compost of the lives I might have led I should be sending roots down but I’m feeding worms instead. Plans and purpose, potential things, go down into the loam, Their crumbly, black-brown detritus is what I now call home. The aim is growing up and out, a shoot, a leaf, a…
Breaking (it all) down in the Wanda way
Visualize, don’t dissociate. Or maybe: diagram, don’t dissociate. But that latter one sounds like an office slogan. In any case, that’s what I’m trying to do. Things are stressful and have been for a long time. So it goes, right? But I’m not sure I’m dealing with it altogether well. Something is broken. Jagged. Foggy….
“I am Moana!” : Naming yourself so others can’t
I’ve written before about identity – and in particular, the forces (or “modules”) in our mind and how we can organize them. I’ve also written about making sure no one else hijacks your mental A/I – our interface between those forces and the world. But what if someone can hijack your modules? Not an ad…
Reading “The Secret Garden” as a monopod
This Spring’s been a weird one for me. Mostly because I’ve been totally one-footed due to surgery. I can’t put any weight on my left foot. Life as a monopod is not awesome, in general, I must say. It’s painful and inconvenient in the extreme. But one good thing about this Spring is that my…
We are all Agatha: Practicing Dark Magic Too Soon as a Species
Caution: Contains spoilers for “WandaVision” Episode 8 Do we know too much? Can a person know too much? I think maybe. After all: Banning books = bad. But: Showing inappropriate material to young people = bad. Right? And yet these things are kind of mutually exclusive. Lest we think we are for totally free flowing…
Yoga your way through the Year (a Gardener’s Hero’s Journey)
I love the hero’s journey as outlined by Joseph Campbell – it informs so much of how we move through life. Our gardening is a crucial part of that. Here are the ways I see a hero’s journey moving through our gardening year – along with corresponding yoga poses, of course. A few fandom examples…
Mid-winter: The Savasana of the Gardening Year
This gardener, this yogi, has become unstuck in time. Billy-Pilgrim style, kind of. This becomes clear in January/early February, the nadir of the gardening year. The ripening and withering, the spreading and the seeding, have all faded into memory. Books tell you “now’s the time to think about planning! And seeds!” But that’s a poor…
In which I get real about my Void Sphere
A mysterious sphere gives everyone the heebee jeebies in the Doctor Who episode “Army of Ghosts.” The reason for this unsettled feeling, scientists explain, is that it isn’t really there in any measurable way. Of course it ends up being nefarious – it is a ship from the void, which is why it can’t be…
An Ode to Lucy Worsley and Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who
Bedecked with their brilliant blonde bobs, Inspiring us with their facts, Lucy Worsley and Jodie make wonder their jobs, And in style they never are lax. These women illumine the past And point to a future with insight They deal with the hard bits that last, But do so with hope and with light. Their…
Who will we be after going “into the woods” in COVID quarantine?
We’re in a bit of an in-between time. There are good words for where we are: penumbra, for instance, is the area between total light and total shadow. Or we could try alluvian, a more geographic term describing the wettish area between land and sea. In musical theater terms, we have gone “into the woods.”…