Category: Nature
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Is the Anthropocene so new? Sophocles on Human Dis-Integration from Nature (Antigone, 332-375)
A translation of a song from Sophocles’ Antigone, with commentary on the Anthropocene.
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Emplacement: experiencing connection with place
Thoughts on finding connection within a space so that a space becomes a place and on the sacredness of landscape.
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Reading List: Reintegrating with Nature
A reading list for thinking of ourselves not only as part of nature but as nature ourselves. (Yeah, I thought I’d already put this up a year ago lol whoops)
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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.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 52: Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Fragrant deep magenta flowers on small trees with willow-shaped leaves!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 51: Ironwood (Olneya tesota)
Turns out Ironwood trees flower as if the crabapples of the Sonoran Desert.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 50: Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)
I tried to grow these in Michigan with no luck; here in Tucson they grow wild!
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 