Author: Lucca Daniel Green
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Why are we like this?! (poem + audio)

Landlord sent out the butcher to clear out all the thriving vegetation on the property. These days are painful.
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On My Palestinian Flag, Part 2, Tucson Edition

How about a few moments of joy I’ve experienced in the last few weeks resulting from the Palestinian flag I’ve got on my house? It *is* meaningful, and I’m so thankful I have it up.
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What is even happening to us? Review: Jeff Sharlet, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

What is even happening to us? A review of Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. An important book, well researched, judiciously written: this glimpse of reality is disturbing, but it is necessary.
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Review: Mariana Alessandri’s Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods (2023)

Review of Night Vision by Mariana Alessandri. In three words: read this book.
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Putting an 8th-century manuscript back together: Mich. Ms. 155 (Video)

Video: That time I accidentally put an 8th-century codex back together again based on patterns of damage.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 54: Climbing Milkweed! (Funastrum cynanchoides)

Ever seen a climbing milkweed? 🥰
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 53: Chitalpa, or what you get when you mix Desert Willow with Catalpa

A desert-ready Catalpa hybridized with Desert Willow!
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Finally, the truth: our ‘mental health crisis’ is Climate Grief/Anxiety.

This installment of the New Yorker Radio Hour is *beyond* important: our climate grief and eco-anxiety are real; action is the only remedy.

