An odd part of the last few years is my realization that I am living in a culture where the bad guys won and are still largely dictating policy. The odd thing about it is how much better it makes me feel to just accept that, and to accept that we are living in dystopian times. It allows me to pull strategies from those stories like Fallout, where people find crumbs of kindness and morality in a wasteland...
The acceptance that I am small and powerful only on a small scale has been a relief from the imposter syndrome of... being able to save the world if only I try hard enough. I can't. I'm not a hero, and I'm not that powerful. It makes me think more within my small power, and what I can do with that.
Wife just texted: THE WHIPPOORWILL. Every year he perches on the grate in our bedroom that is open to the outside. He sings into it. We have a dome house, and the round domed room functions like an amplifier. He has learned how to have the loudest voice in birdlandia.
Anyone known of seed/nut mixes for birds that are based on plants native to the area? I'm specifically in the northeastern USA. I want to be able to shower the ground with native plant seeds and have some get eaten and some sprout up. I know for sure we have hickory nuts because a sapling is growing in our septic field, and I need to stop being a baby and remove it.
Me after reading Jade Legacy and A Strange and Stubborn Endurance: time for some less grim and bloody entertainment.
Also me: I hear Solo Levelling is good.
Our neighbor let her dog bark at us for 20 minutes while she was right out there in the garden, so I started barking and howling back, which seems to have shamed her into shutting the dog up. It was fun to let loose and make a ruckus regardless.