this is so sad and makes me really angry
Hen Harriers, like all birds of prey, should be free to live their lives
grouse moors are a travesty of social justice, environmental justice and commons decency
I hope to see a grouse moor free nation in my lifetime
These patches of wild abandon are purposefully crafted #habitats and foraging grounds for pollinating insects, part of the city’s Pollinator #Meadows program: an initiative designed to #rewild city boulevards and parks managed by the City of Vancouver’s Parks Board.
It’s a program that, since its conception in 2020, has paid dividends.
#vancouver #bc #pollinators #rewilding #urbannature #urbanrewilding #cities
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-turning-lawns-into-pollinator-meadows/
I *finally* just this week feel stable and settled. After years of intense suffering.
So of course my mom just called with a tech question. And I let it go to voicemail.
Now I'm listening to this one on repeat.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OrBPFs8yLkT02aLiloHQs
#solarpunk #music #antifa #resist #resistance #NowPlaying #degrowth #rewild #LandBack #PNW
Listening to this playlist today.
Here's a track from my previous life in Seattle in the 00s. Members of this band, Gaia Consort, were in my extended friends circle, with a lot of great poly/pagan/hippie music. They used to play house concerts.
This one mourns the loss of the old growth forests.
If you poke around hard enough, you can still find pockets of the old trees not far from Seattle. One was a two-mile trail to the beach on a hill that was too steep to log. (Easy to hike in, but save spoons or you'll never get out!) Right off the edge of a suburb, these trees are too big to wrap your arms around.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SYCHi9ZGDQly6UCvaBvRb
It also makes me think of this place a friend took me to. He was an former forest ranger, and he and his wife still kept the hobby of bushwacking to find places no one had discovered yet.
It was a hard trip for me, because I was even sicker then than I am now. But they took us to a "maple cathedral." It was like an elfin hideaway, with maples taller than you can imagine, a whole grove of them. It's hard to believe my memories of them.
I'll speak of the old ones.
#solarpunk #music #antifa #resist #resistance #NowPlaying #degrowth #rewild #LandBack #PNW
Rewilding in lush progress! Letting yard do what it wants, now have many black raspberry canes producing fruit, making cozy hidey holes for birds, chipmunks, whoever else wants a cozy spot safe from hawks. Several ripe berries this morning, yum!
Dirt gravel drive from 3-4 years ago now sprouting several groundcovers, including plantain, a new white aster with several blooms. Just growing there all pretty, 1/2
Project 2025 as a last gasp of a dying system of “power-over,” one that fears the regenerative, relational force of the people, the Earth, and the sacred.
#USPol #Project2025 #Tiamat #PowerWith #NoKings #ReclaimTheWeb #TiamatLives #ManyCurrents #KinNotCrowns #FromStoneToSong #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Ancestors #Compassion #SocialJustice #Humanrights #SystemsChange #Food #Health
Teaser: The German Cinderella story has direct ties to footbinding in China. 😬
(Because it's a small world and ideas travel.)
#folklore #theme #motif #jung #psychology #rewild #decolonization
And the reason I included the rewild and decolonization tags is because you can see in these histories of fairytales how Christian cultural colonization of Europe has tamed these ancient tales, taken away their bite, watered down their power. And YET the core of these tales has survived eradication attempts, and adapted to a hostile habitat. Which is simply phenomenal. What is it our collective unconscious is trying to tell us? Why are certain symbols so important to remember?
This is all along the lines of other recent threads where I've unpacked how the artificial culture of whiteness has erased the real cultures that we all once had in our European homelands pre-Christianity.
#folklore #theme #motif #jung #psychology #rewild #decolonization
There's this channel on YouTube, The Resurrectionists) that digs into the ancient origins of European fairy tales. It's really interesting. I'm watching the Frog Prince one right now. The best one I saw is about Jack and the Beanstalk, which is filled with deeper mystical meanings in stories that go back to the earliest history and ancient worldviews.
(Teaser: The beanstalk represents passing into the afterlife.)
I enjoy thinking about the collective unconscious, and this is a way to look directly at it. Fairytales are the memories of an "organism" that lives longer than hundreds of generations of human lifetimes. I'm one of its neurons. You're one of its neurons. And when we die, the fellow people (neurons) that we taught will carry on these meanings written in a language that few of us can speak....
...yet we all know it.
#folklore #theme #motif #jung #psychology #rewild #decolonization
#Rewilding: Can it save our #wildlife and temper #ClimateChange?
We’ve pushed #nature to the brink, but it may be capable of repairing the damage - provided we step aside and let it go back to doing what it does best.
by Jocelyn Timperley
Published: January 8, 2021
Excerpt: "More recently, Sir #DavidAttenborough adopted the term in the documentary A Life On Our Planet, his much-lauded ‘witness statement’ for the environment. 'So what do we do?' he asked, after an hour journeying through the enormous biodiversity loss the world has experienced during his 94 years. 'To restore stability to our planet we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing that we’ve removed… We must #rewild the world.'"
Read more:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/rewilding-can-it-save-our-wildlife-and-temper-climate-change
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Restoration #Nature #MoreTrees #MoreGreen
I'm just saying, if I wasn't here trying to grow the Fediverse, I would also be a vigilante releasing beavers.
Batman but for the beavers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygl4dv4rno
#Rewilding #Rewild #Beaver #Journalism #Nature #Rivers #Environment
http://africanpaper.com/2025/06/09/rewild-neues-tape-von-avi-c-engel-und-bradley-sean-alexander/
#rewild #avicengel #bradleyseanalexander #anthéne #floraliaeditions
Whiteness is aggressive, methodical, planned, perfectionistic. These are good traits, but not of out of balance and taken as the ONLY good traits.
I remember my first Tai Chi class (before I understood any of this). I expected we'd start by memorizing the first movements in the form, then move to the next. But nope. We did standing meditation, exercises, then the whole form. The next week, same thing. Sometimes we did the whole form twice.
I thought, how the h*ck (I was still Mormon) am I supposed to learn anything this way? I can't memorize this! I can't take this home and practice! It was a completely different approach from what this brainiac systematic test-taking overachiever had learned growing up. It was perhaps my first insight as to just how different Eastern culture is from Western.
Now, I didn't ever memorize the form. (In spite of several classes in different places, a book, and YouTube, mostly because I never have energy to stick to it.) But I did learn that there are other ways to learn, and that this way, of doing the whole thing over and over and over until you pick up pieces at a time, is also valid. And I DID pick up pieces. I learned better balance, the difference between good pain and bad, stances for movement throughout my day, and about several aspects of meditation and mindfulness that have served me well over the decades and contributed to better mental and physical health.
It taught me to look at everything holistically, and that the methodical Western approach isn't the only way.
If you're looking to decolonize, START THERE. Dump the perfectionism, the systematic plan, the mechanistic, linear assembly line of your life. The whole process of decolonization for me is an exercise in doing pieces at a time, out of "order," as it FLOWS, as it makes sense, as it works.
It's not about The Plan. It's about learning to hear and trust my intuition and nature around me.
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After enough of this kind of exercise, detaching from colonial institutions can start seeming more possible. What will catch me if I let go of this or that thing that I was taught by every level of society that I NEEDED?
You fill that scary ignorance with curiosity which leads to knowledge, which leads to choices, which lead to experiences, which lead to curiosity. Rise, repeat.
And then you start prodding at what you can change.
Can I give up Amazon? Maybe just Prime? Can I give up my car? (I can't.) Can I give up Google? Can I use less electricity? Can I repair things instead of buying new? Can I start a compost, even if it's not that great and I'm not going to use it in a garden, can I at least try it out? Can I consider giving up corporate work? What would that take? Can I go visit my local interpretive center and see what the tribes here want me doing? Can I watch some YouTube videos by indigenous people or read a book? Or at least follow some BIPOC voices on social media? Maybe some from outside my country, too? Can I learn some native plants, and maybe just buy two and plant them in my yard, see if I can keep them alive? These and many, many other options are available.
You don't need to do it all at once. (That's white indoctrination – "Demand for Purity" or toxic perfectionism.) Just pick one or two. If they don't work out, don't feel depressed or down on yourself (yup, more oppressor indoctrination there, don't cooperate!!) – just pick another one or two that seem easier and try again.
Like nature, it's a cycle. (Exclusively linear thinking is also whiteness indoctrination! Its' a form of "Polarized Thinking" in cult literature, (aka Black and White Thinking).)
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Another great step is to just start observing nature. Even if you live in the city, there is nature around you. What are the crows up to? What's that bug doing there? Why does your cat do that? What patterns are forming from the conflicts between the plants struggling to survive in the sidewalk?
Try to get inside their heads and really try to imagine the world from their perspective – which will be totally unlike your own.
This is an exercise in listening. As you get better at it, you will get better at understanding what indigenous people mean, how they see the world, what they want, and what they're asking of you.
And you will get better at listening to YOURSELF.
Because ultimately, whiteness cuts white people off from our own bodies and minds. We've got entire ecosystems going on inside of us, and that brain, that pinpoint of ego, is merely a facade of picket fences built by manipulators higher up in the hierarchy, made to look pretty and civilized, but they hide the wildness inside – wildness that turns perverse and horrifying when shoved, like monsters, into the basement of your subconscious.
They aren't monsters. They are pieces of you. And the way through isn't dominance, it's cooperation.
At a certain point, you realize that this also applies to the out-group. They aren't monsters either. They are pieces of you. And the way through isn't dominance, it's cooperation.
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#RVLife
#OffGrid
#solarpunk
#rewild
#decolonise
#AbuseCulture
#Yardtales
I want to do this thread proper. I want to go through each of the 31 manipulation techniques that I outline in Recovering Agency (there applied to Mormonism/Christianity) and show how they apply to whiteness. Maybe I'll have some energy later today? I've been wanting to do that for years.
But part of unpacking my whiteness (the ableism side of it) is learning to do things half-assed sometimes. So that's basically this thread, what is coming up for me right now, raw.
Really, the first steps are being open, curious, prodding at what you think you can change now, and listening to non-white voices uncritically.
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A good place to start is to learn about other ways of seeing the world.
For me, it's trying to understand indigenous American attitudes towards nature and the land, not just from listening to non-white voices, but from observing what's around me.
As a child, indigenous cultures didn't make any sense to me. That's because they have a completely different underlying approach than those I'd been exposed to in my bubble of Mormon whiteness. My oppressors didn't want me to understand; they needed me to grow up as a middle-man oppressor. They needed me to look down on some so I wouldn't complain when others looked down on me.
(This mind control technique is known as "elitism.")
And that generated all kinds of fears (instilled phobias, another technique), that if I didn't conform to whiteness, I'd have to live in poverty, like Black and brown people did. It destroyed any curiosity I had about cultures other than my own.
That curiosity is coming back. There are other ways to relate to nature, to the land, to myself. That's the vector I'm grabbing hold of as I shed various conveniences (while I hold on to others).
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#AbuseCulture #decolonize #rewild #solarpunk #OffGrid #RVLife
