#Jasmine is blooming again. We keep them indoors for 3/4 of year & move outside for late Spring-Summer. Good indoor natural air purifying #plant. Flowers are #edible & used to make tea & fruits used in #Chinese#TraditionalMedicine.
#Covid#Lockdown days. Picking up his wife for a final check up from a quarantine center and maintaining social distance - Mizo style 😁 Checking if she's comfortable is the cute part. #Archives
Stolen and reposted because "no alt text" which is especially relevant when you're trying to get a message across to everyone with your posts. Inclusion isn't a buzzword my dude.
@skinnylatte@sabcatsilver this has incredible ageing auntie and uncle watching some boring bullshit on TV in the afternoons and flirting in an old-fashioned manner that makes the younger folks insecure about their love life energy
Thoreau lived in the Emerson household twice in his life (I think). After leaving the Emerson household for the first time to live on Staten Island in 1843 he wrote a letter to Lidian Emerson: "The thought of you will constantly elevate my life... It will be something always above the horizon to behold, as when I look up at the evening star. I think I know your thoughts without seeing you, and as well here as in Concord. You are not at all strange to me."
@nathanlovestrees "You are not at all strange to me." is something I'd imagine Dionysus saying to the exiled Ariadne in the Dionysus/Ariadne fanfic I'm daydreaming about these days.
Yesterday I was very creative at our demonstration table in the museum: my first collage that isn't just paper & paint. There was no audience (people probably used the rare sunshine for outdoor events), but we had fun! Now some small embroidery in gold to finish it. Should I make more collages with textile parts? 🤔 @embroidery@fibrearts@fiberarts
I'd definitely like to see more textile-based collage from you! I had an idea a while ago about making composites of acrylic paint on canvas as well as embroidery and collage, but I had to stop because, firstly, I don't have the expertise for it and, secondly, I don't even know if it's possible 😛
We had the entire patio to ourselves 🙂
At Brown's Social in downtown #VictoriaBC with my friend, Natalie. She's a horticulturalist, living in Deep Cove. We had some eats & drinks before going across street for PechaKucha Night VOL. 20.
They played #GenX tunes, the whole time we were there. We lucked out on getting street parking, one block away. Then lucked out on empty patio, on arrival. We had our own fire table 🥰
Mango season is coming. Here's my short S Asian mango primer, and some ideas on where to buy them (I'm only focused on the ones you can buy outside S Asia, so if you're like 'the type that drops in my grandma's garden in the Konkan coast is the best', great, keep some for me)
@skinnylatte a lot of Bengalis (myself included) will drop everything for a succulent Himsagar mango. But people are saying the harvest will be small this year because mangoes fruit best in alternate years, and last year had been a good mango year 😞 The only mango that comes anywhere close to Himsagar is the Dussehri.
(No, I haven't read it yet. I was looking for something else and found this, but given the popularity of MDZS, maybe other ppl will be interested, also this serves as a bookmark for myself)
@villainousfriend@geraineon@Forestofglory imo SH pushes the boundaries of BIPOC SFF writing and thought in a way that not a lot of other publications do all the time
1/6 “Animacy is an overdetermined word, but so is the idea of the Divine Feminine. The reason I have begun to shy away from the Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine is their unfortunate identification with gender and, more importantly, their overidentification with humans and their myopic classifications generally. Animacy is plushier. Springier. More mosslike. It seems a soft spot to rest on while I try to understand and explain how very sentient the world is to me these days.