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  • Readings on land ownership

    Links to essays and readings from the Threadable reading circle on land ownership These are all of the posts related to the Threadable land ownership reading circle in one place. If you’re interested in exploring… Read more

  • In the collisions of life, what choices do we have?

    Walking composition “All thingsare peacefuland kindon the other planetbeyond this Earth.But still I hesitateto go alone.” —from “Another Planet,” by Dunya Mikhail Last weekend, I went for a walk in the woods with some friends… Read more

  • Reading "Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age," Mary Christina Wood

    Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent—and final!—Threadable reading for Land Ownership was a selection from Mary Christina Wood’s 2013 book Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age. *(For anyone new… Read more

  • To break open the heart-shaped box

    Walking composition “I’ve been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks.” —Nirvana, “Heart-Shaped Box” Two quick notes before we go to a Taylor Swift concert:1. Hard to miss the launch of Substack Notes around here,… Read more

  • Where time and attention remain whole

    Essay (about time and silence that turned into one about caregiving that turned into something about capitalism that turned into time and silence again . . . apologies for the inconvenience) 5% of last quarter’s… Read more

  • Reading "The Book of Trespass," by Nick Hayes

    Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from Nick Hayes’s 2021 book The Book of Trespass. I chose two excerpts from this book: from the… Read more

  • Nature's not here for the stoke

    Walking composition “Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one that’ll be alive to see it.” —The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Quick note: Starting in April, I will… Read more

  • Walking with faith

    Walking composition “Sing me again the saga of sinand separation,of humans and hierarchies;I’ll sing you the ballad of glacial bodiesof many creatures made of water and belief—” —from “Of Eons and Epochs” in Copper Yearning,… Read more

  • Darkness in the lights

    Walking composition “The world is airtightyet held togetherby what it does not house,by the vanished. They are everywhere.” —from “The Vanished” (“Die Verschwundenen”), Hans Magnus Enzenberger Last week I spent a lot of time being… Read more

  • Reading "Second Treatise of Government," by John Locke

    Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from John Locke’s 1690 book Second Treatise of Government, Chapter V: Of Property. *(https://threadablenative.page.link/Rxp8yegeZ1vXy4u19 if you want to… Read more

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