wookiedharma

Best way to run an election: publicly post every vote. Give each voter a random ID—one sticker on the ballot, one they keep. The full ledger goes online. You look up your vote, confirm it was counted correctly, or prove tampering. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

Look down. There, scattered across the teeming alpine sphagnum is the geranium. Each unique crimsoning snowflake like fallen stars forged in a brief autumn. They only ask you slow down until you see how each leaf is an unhurried doorway, reminding you that you belong… in this faërie haven. #poem

Eklutna lake, within the homeland of the Dena’ina Athabascan people, the K’enaht’ana. The river was dammed in 1955. A river is a conversation between the mountain and the sea — every salmon was a letter the sea wrote to the forest. The forest waits until the river sings again. #RestoreEklutnaRiver

bella and i exploring a little stream between two lakes in the woods southeast of talkeetna. when we arrived, two happy otters and some ducks were enjoying this remote spot. they beauty of #alaska is so much more than its breathtaking mountains…

bella and i exploring a little stream between two lakes in the woods southeast of talkeetna. when we arrived, two happy otters and some ducks were enjoying this remote spot. they beauty of #alaska is so much more than its breathtaking mountains…

a meditation on flow

Where life finds root upon the stone— a seed grateful for driftwood's dust where the ancient cedar's journey ends in a final gift, upon a rock that knows only cold and sun. The forest's slow, eternal breath turns all things to soil in faith of the seed and ever makes a new world from what was lost.

this my poem. the post didnt retain the layout 🙃

Where life finds root upon the stone— a seed grateful for driftwood's dust where the ancient cedar's journey ends in a final gift, upon a rock that knows only cold and sun. The forest's slow, eternal breath turns all things to soil in faith of the seed and ever makes a new world from what was lost.

I love them. they are the tallest/oldest beings we know. they inhabit an almost timeless realm where even death lasts longer than most other lives. in a world focused on the fastest, these ancient sentinels build their sandcastles in the sky. always giving. even as they disappear… #treehugger

The emergence of fungi during the Carboniferous period that could break down lignin and recycle carbon back into the atmosphere was necessary for the evolution of vertebrates that eventually led to mammals and, ultimately, humans… I will never look at the fungus growing on trees the same way again!

I love them. they are the tallest/oldest beings we know. they inhabit an almost timeless realm where even death lasts longer than most other lives. in a world focused on the fastest, these ancient sentinels build their sandcastles in the sky. always giving. even as they disappear… #treehugger

I love them. they are the tallest/oldest beings we know. they inhabit an almost timeless realm where even death lasts longer than most other lives. in a world focused on the fastest, these ancient sentinels build their sandcastles in the sky. always giving. even as they disappear… #treehugger

#treehugger in port renfrew yesterday

me and bella communing with nature on mount wells amidst the sacred arbutus and oak tree friends. i’m told that the indigenous peoples of the Nuu-chah-nulth nation refer to the arbutus tree as "tl'owit", which I am told means ‘bark tree’. #happydog

me and bella communing with nature on mount wells amidst the sacred arbutus and oak tree friends. i’m told that the indigenous peoples of the Nuu-chah-nulth nation refer to the arbutus tree as "tl'owit", which I am told means ‘bark tree’. #happydog

me and bella communing with nature on mount wells amidst the sacred arbutus and oak tree friends. i’m told that the indigenous peoples of the Nuu-chah-nulth nation refer to the arbutus tree as "tl'owit", which I am told means ‘bark tree’. #happydog

bella exploring the juan de fuca trail on western vancouver island with the olympic mountains visible in the far distance #happydog aside from the beauty, i especially appreciated that the temp was only 18 degrees celsius on july 16th.

spring in northern washington #happydog

I love being in glacier for the spring!! There is still lots of snow on the neighborhood trails in june!

spring in northern washington #happydog

canyon creek

spring in northern washington #happydog

One amazingly obvious, yet overlooked, fact that plants teach us is that being in the right place at the right time means a whole lot… ps. additional thoughts about how this realtes to biological determinism and free will in the alt txt of the picture.

continuing the thoughts in the alt txt in the post above