Goal for August: write one letter every day against the fascist regime.
8/1: a letter to the Secretary of the Smithsonian for allowing removal of “twice impeached” from an exhibit about impeachments.
8/2: a letter to my Dem Senators to express my outrage that they are still refusing to block $$ to Israel.
We're still working to shake people and organisations free from the hold Big Tech has imposed on them.
We don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
If you want to help us, start simple. Share word of the open social web with the people around you!
Together, we can rethink social media.
#SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Activism #SmallActions
Your small actions create waves of change. 🌊 How will you make an impact today? Let’s inspire each other to be the pebble that moves the ocean! #RippleEffect #Inspiration #Interconnectedness #SmallActions
https://sanjaymohindroo.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/the-least-movement-is-of-importance-to-all-nature-the-entire-ocean-is-affected-by-a-pebble-blaise-pascal/
One lightning bug
lands on
my typing hand.
Is there anything
more hopeful
than saving
one stray firefly?
Yes,
but none
so emblematic,
so necessary
so gently futile.
In my palm
we walk outside,
lighting the dark
with one more
speck
of hope.
Inspired by Wendell Berry's poem here: http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2019/06/18/if-you-need-hope-mr-berry-sings-my-hope-to-the-world/
Channeling Rumi
Gather together
what is your dear
and true
center of gravity
and
for the next
20 years
live it.
Then
and only then
may you
surrender.
#smallpoems Poetry is ubiquitous. It lives everywhere. Here is a poem I pulled from a video here by Dr Penny Mealy : https://youtu.be/pMKwlysT23Y
And the poem is in the image below and the etherpad here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Looking4Anomalies
#smallactions #smallstories
A discovery as I mashup two books in my reading of Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature and In Search of the Canary Tree: hope! Here is what I found: I might look for hope in a graveyard, but I will not be coroner to an extinction event. I will do something about it every day. #smallactions
Reading 2 books: Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (Linda Lear) and In Search of the Canary Tree (Lauren Oakes). One quote unites them and marks much of my own work now as I age into my final decades, "Looking for hope in a graveyard." Potter is dead, but her spirit speaks on. The canary tree is dying, a victim of global warming, yet Oakes is...hopeful. All of us are seeking beyond the doom loops predicted for the future rocketing toward us. Let us rummage the graves for help. #smallactions
@dogtrax There was a time you would be consulting a shaman about this. I will be a fake shaman for you: the hawk was celebrating you both. A line of flight, perhaps a feathered line across the page. Saying in the slipstream: this is who I am but who are you?
#smallstories #smallactions
@dogtrax @lauraritchie #improvisart #smallpoems #smallactions
Two celestial objects:
One mine and
One yours.
An unexpected
binary
each revolving
around the other.
Lunar.
Tidal.
Salty.
#smallactions #smallstories #smallpoems
I am working with some folks nibbling around the margins of Stephen Nachmanovitch's new book, The Art of Is. "X" marks the start of some adjacent and emergent acts an objects. X: http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2019/05/06/undoing-the-doomloops/
At play in the fields of "free play", Stephen Nachmanovitch's term for improvisation. Going to be annotating parts of his new book, The Art of Is. Let me know if you wanna play. The image is a rambling woolgather through his first book, Free Play. #smallactions
Borrow or rob, a perfect palindrome for the fifty year anniversary of Earth Day in 2020.
http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2019/04/28/prophecy-none-will-sing-in-the-silent-spring/
In the Field of Infinite Play
I am trying to transform boundaries into horizons,
I am trying to understand the absolute necessity for changing the rules of the game,
I play with jest as opposed to seriousness,
I am internally defined not externally defined,
I play to generate time instead of consume it
I am more concerned with vision than I am with power.
The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Adapted/stolen from here: https://fractalenlightenment.com/32173/life/6-signs-you-may-be-an-infinite-player
My best work
comes
from
woolgathering,
random feldgangs,
doodling,
and idleness.
My best work,
unfocused
and
allowing.
Where does your
best
work
come
from?
As much as we can, we look after the lonely and alone in our neighborhood. Last night, I brought our elderly neighbor -- the one who suffered a stroke in Spring and who struggles with a walker and whose lights are on even when I am out with the dog on the earliest of mornings -- to our holiday church services. It was a long haul to pack her up and get her there, but I watched her eyes drink in the song and candles and community, and knew it was worth it. #smallstories #smallactions
@dogtrax Wouldn't it be interesting to study these liminal moments of transition: from text to hyperlink to digital object and back button to poem again? What happens in our minds as we 'code shift'? Is it actually code shifting? Something else? I call these transitions 'friction'. Is this something we can learn to do better, to invoke better, to share better? Might a voice interface be better? We need to spend more time exposing these blind spot thresholds. Yes? #smallstories #smallactions
"RumbleStrippin'" from Justin Johnson's "Drivin' it Down" Double-Album https://youtu.be/cUiYamjM4GU Lucky listen today. Or was it? In our age of algorithms can anything online be called "lucky"? Tell me about your latest "lucky listens". #clmooc #unboundeq #smallactions
@dogtrax This is called social luck, my friend, and it seems to be a nice, thick slather of it in those three words. Think of it as a spell, cast to keep you safe. Of course, reciprocation adds to the luck of the world. Cast on and knit it up like you need a scarf tomorrow. #smallactions
Lucky listen today:
https://youtu.be/Ymsb_4Z3uy0
Or was it? In our age of algorithms can anything online be called"lucky"? Tell me, when was
the last time you got lucky in the world and found 200 bucks tucked away in a CD jewel box in a second hand store? Yeah, me never. Yeah, me never.
