It’s a mast year for oak trees and pines have followed the trend — the ground is covered in acorns and sticky pinecones, an omnipresent reminder of the profligate reproductive power of nature, the momentum towards continuance, and the dice roll precariousness of what makes it to the next life. Life is so bountiful yet so unlikely, so precious to experience at all.
Some recent repeat listens: Nick Drake - Five Leaves Later (essential for northern hemisphere fall), Mary Lattimore - Goodbye Hotel Arkada (stunning music for harp), Sandy Denny - Sandy (needs no introduction), Sylvester - Private Recordings (deep vocal soul nourishment), Six Organs of Admittance - Sleep Tones (music for the hypnagogic realm), Wayne Siegel - Autumn Resonance (title says it all)
Ginseng is a beautiful plant — I’ve been experimenting with extracts of both root and leaf, different vibes to each but I find both very pleasant and aligned for me
me to my grandkids someday over there used to be a laundromat, now it's a pot store...and over there was a great sandwich shop, now a ketamine clinic...that one over there used to be a book store, now it's a psychedelic mushroom store...that was a gas station, now also a pot store