many if these books are simply for show never to be read not worth the reading perhaps the paper will come in handy one day to start a fire for warmth or to mulch a tree planting ceremony the garden beds are always hungry for more carbon compost organic material paper is good food for most even with all the acids the worms will bite in nevertheless mount the devil's back with wild mountain goat agility and when he threatens the end of the party with drunkeness take him into the streets to collapse and die in a gutter
the bees are searching for their own rush and kick get as much out of this warm flowering time as possible and then hunker down for the cold stretch they could really use a warmer planet with a little more moisture in the air and less pesticide herbicide suicide clean air is what they desire along with enough pollen to drown in
the age of the helpful neighbour is over the community is dead the lines are drawn in the sand erect a fence and defend it nothing shall pass the last one standing can repopulate and erase the lines and live according to commandment
there is no final form complex systems eating each other giving birth to more complex systems rotting away into more complex systems feeding complex systems cold dark universe gives way to a table spoon of yeast and a cup of hot water
if trondheim is the paris of the north than larnook is the paris of the southern hemisphere
you are not missing out on anything you a gaining a whole lot more the ability to navigate the hills the family prognostication and creation of an environment fertile for the fermentation of a little culture intoxicants are a slow training coming for the initaited in the ritual of the sacred for those for which nothing is sacred caffeine alcohol nicotine are simply consumer products
not to be trusted around the usual common poisons the problems of getting together with the common folk accustomed to rotting their guts out on the commercial ticket imbibing whatever is on mid week special in the aisles whilst picking up a box of cereal for the kids the drinker searching for a flavour for a headspace for a shape of consciousness is left with the tail between the legs the teeth chattering and vomit upon the shoes there is no hope for getting work done in this state
if we look back over what once was science can we look forward and see what we want science to be?
simply in the harvest season the autumn is the favourite extend the gardens renovate the cellar and we are feasting our way through winter with the preserves put the plastic up and extend the seasons an early and late harvest put in the winter garden consuming electricity with the grow lights and passive warmth then we have done as much as we can seedlings in winter and fresh greens all year round fermentation pasteurization canning and bottling witherto hunting and aquaculture become the means to luxury protein oh self sufficient me can die now
all these limits coming up against them hard and fast the incapacities open up a world of meaning and value appreciate health appreciate mobility appreciate the breath in the lungs
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that grown up terror not yet encountered seem ridiculous but it does not make it any less real now the child is terrified simply because father is terrified so we should all be terrified when the largest most ferocious beast runs for the hills we all ought to be taking cover
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the fungal infection is a tough one to fight keep the skin dry and it cracks into parchment the spores need to be killed and removed permanently let the skin return to a natural state i wish the same for biarritz
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the hard contact point between the want and the means obtain those things how you want them to eat out of the garden fermenting pumpkin and corn scraps into diesel any good agricultural equipment maintains value
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not wanting to wash away the earth worms the worst of me is still to come decomposing bile feed me to the garlic crop
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the royals had the luxury of developing lifestyle diseases we are so lucky now that the common knock about lout can get a dose of gout if you are going to go out bush and take a couple of machines to help you with your work then you had better take good tools with you and become some sort of autodidactic mechanic
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open air tub on the precipice watching sun set over the mountain peak not much room for thought with those giants staring down into your little mind time enough to do the biologically essential and then observe the cosmos interventions come on motorisation not yet fit for the traversing of this terrain
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standing in line at the shops with the ffp2 mask on over the face hole thinking about how the illiad could be used as a ladder of understanding finnegans wake what did aristophanes and diogenese now of dublin when i get home and put this shipping container of wheatgerm into storage i will be getting back to bamboo hut construction within the mandala
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left with the intoxication after the guest has left still much work to be done in the kitchen alone the cat sits all judgement over coffee beans and dried up wasp bodies not a mess but a library
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planting plan for the sub tropics halfway up the hill; sugar cane coffee acacia silky oak cassava pigeon pea aloe vera sweet potato saltbush naturtium arrowroot
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no one comes up this far to check on the idiocy and so long as you are eating your landscape no one has to see the idiocy down in the valley along the main street of town if it is a must send the monkey offspring with a list in hand a little of the going currency beans for milk
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someone ahead to overtake sharpens the senses motivates i
need a prey none of this imagined goal and awards do it for me machine will run
until there just aint nothing to burn any more the world grows cold and dark -