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Nebula.tv is cool. I found an offer for a $30 annual subscription, and I really appreciate the ad-free experience.

One positive of YouTube enforcing its ad-blocker blockers is that I am spending almost no time mindlessly watching videos. I would much rather work on learning a skill somewhere else.

Current goal: develop my skill enough as a piano player to justify buying an Osmose by Expressive E

If you appreciate stories of working against the odds, of indigenous resistance and wisdom, of curiosity leading to concrete action, of loving life in all its definitions, please watch Ola Ka Honua. I beg of you.

I love this excerpt from Annie Mueller’s Dammit nature:

I’m stepping between tree roots, watching a chipmunk
(I don’t hate people anymore)
I’m winding beneath a green-lit canopy
(Maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought)
I’m listening to cricket, cicada, crow
(I feel pretty good actually)

This process reminds me of Erling Kagge’s Walking: One Step at a Time:

I learned about a valuable Inuit tradition. If you are so angry that you can hardly control your feelings, you are asked to leave your home and to walk in a straight line through the landscape outside until your anger has left you. You then mark the point at which your anger is released with a stick in the snow. In this way, the length, or the strength, of one’s rage is measured. The most sensible thing that you can do if you are angry—a condition where our reptilian brain rules our decisions—is to walk for a while away from the object of your anger.

I’m just one person, but when I see a pop-up asking for my email for your newsletter, I immediately close the tab and never return. This function of modern web design only encourages me to become interested in other things.

I’m trying my hardest not to know anything about The Boy and The Heron and it hasn’t been easy.

The trip to Seattle was outstanding. I got to see friends from Portland. I saw Peter Gabriel. I picked up about 35 new cassettes from the various record stores I visited. We did all the things one does in Seattle Center. I saw Gelflings and the Laika exhibit at MoPOP. I experienced a NIN laser light show. I saw the beautiful University of Washington campus. We went to Bainbridge Island. We had some great coffee and plenty of excellent vegan food. The trip was full of art, history, science, and more. I am thankful it all came together, but also grateful to be back home.