“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.”
— Mary Oliver, from Dogfish (via amarling)
The Ecoepicenter, a large greenhouse at the Yerevan botanical gardens, in the capital city of Armenia.
Designed by Suren Shahsuvaryan in 1979
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“We will make it through this, past the edge of the wound.”
— How We Became Human; Returning from the Enemy, Joy Harjo
Do you have videos that stick with you? This is one that occasionally pops back in my mind.
In Harie, Shiga(Japan), water canals run through much of the town, and the people there use it to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with fish. 🐟
Imagine a pool of water that people use for washing fruits, vegetables, and dishes. That same pool has carp that call it home, and the carp eat the scraps and keep the water crystal clear. This could be inside the home or outside, but it is constantly added to by natural spring water, and the water exits in to a canal. This system is called "Kabata," and has been used for over 300 years.
Both images above are from this website which talks further on this subject.
That running water then heads to rice flats, which benefit from the natural fertilizers the fish provide. That water then heads to wetland area, where the water is cleaned by reeds and other vegetation before entering a lake.
calvin and hobbes, bill watterson / clear night, charles wright
guy looking up "i think i like men" on his phone immediately after losing a fight with another man
Frederick Judd Waugh
Mid Ocean
captain swash prequel 🥰
ahhh thanks so much for asking about this!
I really wanted to explore a couple concepts in the Swash prequel. what if the best swordsman in the kingdom was a grizzled butch? what if the experience of war means she's now extremely messy interpersonally and does reckless stuff? what's her mental health like? why does Swash not become heir to the throne? what makes her get out of it--and does she do it subconsciously or was it a conscious decision?
also most importantly: what if swash meets a traumatized little kid and teaches them how to make themself safe? and what does this mean for perpetuating or not perpetuating cycles of trauma and violence? it's fun because in the time's shroud novel/series, which is set almost 20 years later, she's the main character's guardian, she's married, and much more put together, where as in this prequel she's an absolute wreck. it's also fun because she's much more of a Good Guy in the time's shroud series but in this...charcoal gray is the color of House Swash for a reason 🥰
thanks for asking! 💜
Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eurydice’
The Wave, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1917.
stories where the past is a wound that refuses to heal
