Hey, reader. How are you doing? I’m a good cook! There’s so much surplus I wish I had more access to. So I’m asking for help with food pertaining to food banks, dumpster diving, and foraging. If you live nearby, thank you for considering! nuts and fruits If you know how to process walnuts and… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I made a new functionally ill zine, a few months ago, unexpectedly. Finally I’m announcing it here. It’s called functionally ill #33: how to survive: how I raised my baseline and stay well without psych meds. I would love to share it with you. Wanna trade zines? Functionally ill… Read More »
“How do regular people make this much tempeh?” I asked Ming. I was in our kitchen, overwhelmed, wishing for advice from anywhere. Repeatedly I was making marinade but running out of space in my pyrex dishes, needing to start another two dishes of marinade in order to accommodate all that copious tempeh. “They don’t,” Ming… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you? I love foraging. It brings together my favorite things: free food, intimacy with plants, and nature time. Sometimes I don’t feel empowered, or what if I make a mistake? To mitigate that, I feel braver with a buddy. parks My dear friend and I went to a local park and… Read More »
Hello, I had a revelation about exercise equipment. Exercise equipment has always confused me. Why do people spend thousands of dollars on this mostly metal and plastic that doesn’t actually accomplish anything but exercise, when moving our bodies is free? Not like you make electricity from it, weave cloth, or make tortillas. At the end,… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? Isn’t this little free pantry beautiful in the gleaming sunrise light? Free is my favorite flavor. Little free libraries are cool, and I’ve known about them for a while. They feed the mind. But little free pantries will feed the tummy. How lovely. This one had inside some cans of… Read More »
Hello, thought you might enjoy Thorn Coyle’s essay today, I Am Not (Just) Pro-Choice. https://www.thorncoyle.com/post/i-m-not-just-pro-choice I have been enjoying Thorn Coyle’s ideas for a long time. Especially a song about direct action at the test site called Present from 1998. clinics I’ve never done clinic defense, but I’ve encountered the violent religious people outside of… Read More »
Hey, guess what. We had fun recently propagating cactus. I guess we won’t know for a while if it worked. But it was fun to try. propagating cactus Our friend who lived here in our guest room for three months last year left a San Pedro. Yes, it’s ok if you think of the Madonna… Read More »
Hey, I would like to tell you about the latest incident of me and Ming, two non-eaters of birds, making chicken for the elders who live here. Here’s a picture of the non-beautiful food that hopefully was nourishing for their bodies. I got in my mind the notion that I could get a can of… Read More »
In the early morning on Trinity Day, I did a peace ritual in the courtyard. Ming recorded me. Please see the video. It’s mostly a prayer. I post the words of the whole ritual in the description. Thanks for praying with me, or using this ritual to design your own. I planned and wrote it… Read More »