Month: August 2022
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Monsoons in Tucson and Fall in Michigan
Watching a record monsoon season from over 1,600 miles away while here in Michigan it’s already fall. (Plus, are the storms in Michigan changing into something like a monsoon, or is that just me?)
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Reintegrating with Nature: Food-Foraging Edition (via WaPo Magazine)
Next in my series Reintegrating with Nature, an article about foraging in The Washington Post Magazine last weekend led me to thinking about how I’ll implement foraging into my life (post-graduation!), and the food-rich plot of land I’d like to call home at some point, not a small farm anymore, but a food forest instead.
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I think I just realized why Donny With The Combover kept those documents… It’s not good news.
Why did he keep so many sensitive documents when he surely knew the FBI would end up getting a warrant and searching his residence? I just had a thought about this that makes more sense to me than anything else I’ve heard or come up with myself.
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Reintegrating with Nature: Relocating ‘Wilderness’ within the Self
Toward re-establishing our stewardship within the natural world rather than beyond it.
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The impact of hearing myself reciting my poems
Reflections (mostly surprise, even shock) on feeling the impact of hearing my poetry, simultaneously the poet and a stranger to words I know reflexively.
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You don’t have a “chemical imbalance,” and serotonin is not your problem.
An important new study of decades of research finds that actually serotonin was never the cause of depression. Antidepressants should no longer be prescribed to medically treat depression.
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Autistic Eye Contact: the intensity of a shared gaze
Reflecting on my aversion to casually meeting people’s eyes.
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If you tell me “It’s like Portuguese author Saramago’s…” you can stop: I’m already buying a copy.
Excitment for Mohsin Hamid’s new book, compared by Michel Martin to Saramago’s Blindness. Also: read some Rushdie!
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Paradigm-Shifting Study on Autism: Intense World Theory
Musings on my journey toward realizing that I’m autistic, plus a neurological study I encountered this morning that for the time ever managed to represent my own experience.
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What’s left to say (with audio)
Climate grief and raw rage within a realist’s view of the status quo
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This would be hilarious if it weren’t real, or why I can’t stand economists
The reality of our economic situation is terrible. Why can’t economists see it?
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The Evidence on Alex Jones’ Phone
An accidental release by Jones’ lawyer may be exactly the missing evidence necessary to prove the connections pointing to Donny with the Combover.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 