Gorgeous photos! My media diet is kinda going in the opposite direction — I was very aware of being on a four year vacation that has now ended, so I’m getting back on the horse again — but in a way I feel good about it, re-engaging with the world in that way. Totally understand going in the opposite direction though!
Thanks especially for the great news about the chestnut trees & passenger pigeons. I knew people were trying with the chestnuts but I didn’t know it was working. I completely agree, small changes and efforts by many people do make a difference.
Love the bird photos, especially those bluebirds. Excellent piece, I’m partial to anything quoting Bartleby, and appreciate that you point out the fact corporations act poorly when there is demand for them to do so. Thank you Thomas
Well, to be fair I think monopolies and subsidized industries can ignore public opinion to a degree, and powerful ones will lobby for their own interests, but we are not helpless in the face of that.
Absolutely, by no means did I intend to relieve corporations of culpability, just really liked how you raised that we aren’t powerless to bring the change we want.
Really enjoy how the gorgeous bird photos give reality to your last line, and the comments about news.
Unhoooking myself from daily news, and especially politics, took years. It wasn't easy. I grew up in a very political and still highly engaged family. But it was beyond worth it. It's amazing how fast your compassion can burn out when you're riding the emotional roller coaster of the headlines.
Thanks for being in the fight! You know, the fight where we cook nice things for one another and share photos of birds and dismantle the oppressive systems brick by brick.
I have edited a fair number of 19th-century, New England memoirs for publication, & one constant in those diaries is talking about the communal feeling around the Chestnut harvest. It seems everyone went out with bags to scoop them up, and you were considered an ill-tempered miser & unneighborly if you refused anyone the right to tramp over your land harvesting them from the ground. I've never seen an estimate on how many calories these contributed to diets in pre-Civil War New England, but based on the records I've reviewed, it may have been considerable, especially as a food source (along with oysters and lobsters) utilized by the poor.
I didn't know that, thank you for sharing. That reminds me of The Gleaners, the people allowed to pick the overlooked vegetables and fruit after the harvests in France. I do love roasted chestnuts, or castagna, and we always had them at Christmastime as an Italian American family. Maybe I'll bring some to roast with my Louisiana fam this year. They prefer pecans!
Gorgeous photos! My media diet is kinda going in the opposite direction — I was very aware of being on a four year vacation that has now ended, so I’m getting back on the horse again — but in a way I feel good about it, re-engaging with the world in that way. Totally understand going in the opposite direction though!
Thanks especially for the great news about the chestnut trees & passenger pigeons. I knew people were trying with the chestnuts but I didn’t know it was working. I completely agree, small changes and efforts by many people do make a difference.
Love the bird photos, especially those bluebirds. Excellent piece, I’m partial to anything quoting Bartleby, and appreciate that you point out the fact corporations act poorly when there is demand for them to do so. Thank you Thomas
Well, to be fair I think monopolies and subsidized industries can ignore public opinion to a degree, and powerful ones will lobby for their own interests, but we are not helpless in the face of that.
Absolutely, by no means did I intend to relieve corporations of culpability, just really liked how you raised that we aren’t powerless to bring the change we want.
Really enjoy how the gorgeous bird photos give reality to your last line, and the comments about news.
Unhoooking myself from daily news, and especially politics, took years. It wasn't easy. I grew up in a very political and still highly engaged family. But it was beyond worth it. It's amazing how fast your compassion can burn out when you're riding the emotional roller coaster of the headlines.
Thanks for being in the fight! You know, the fight where we cook nice things for one another and share photos of birds and dismantle the oppressive systems brick by brick.
Tonight we're having pie!
Last line 🫶🏽🫶🏽 also: House of Hades! Here for all the gueriila media forevs
Yes, I was a big fan of the Toynbee tiles. These seem less guerrilla and more influencer but they're still kind of cool.
I have edited a fair number of 19th-century, New England memoirs for publication, & one constant in those diaries is talking about the communal feeling around the Chestnut harvest. It seems everyone went out with bags to scoop them up, and you were considered an ill-tempered miser & unneighborly if you refused anyone the right to tramp over your land harvesting them from the ground. I've never seen an estimate on how many calories these contributed to diets in pre-Civil War New England, but based on the records I've reviewed, it may have been considerable, especially as a food source (along with oysters and lobsters) utilized by the poor.
I didn't know that, thank you for sharing. That reminds me of The Gleaners, the people allowed to pick the overlooked vegetables and fruit after the harvests in France. I do love roasted chestnuts, or castagna, and we always had them at Christmastime as an Italian American family. Maybe I'll bring some to roast with my Louisiana fam this year. They prefer pecans!