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Continue reading →: Now we come to the time of passing awayOver the weekend, I got the news that two members of extended communities that I’m part of had passed on. Mike Lee, I never met in person. He taught non-classical gung fu—the style developed by my own teacher, Jesse Glover, and there’s a great deal more to that story—in Chicago,…
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Continue reading →: Saving Wikipedia, IMLS Propaganda, Tracking and Seeing, Henry Mansfield, My TBR
“In Search of Wikipedia’s Saviors” by Imogen West-Knights is an interesting take on the crowdsourced encyclopedia at this present moment, when the entity just agreed to terms to receive compensation for having its content leveraged by AI. When I was in library school, Wikipedia was still new enough to be…
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Continue reading →: Gratitude for the guy who taught my husband to self-rescue a tractorYesterday, we managed to get a Kubota tractor—a big one, with a backhoe attachment—stuck in the mud. Nine years ago my husband and I bought some rural acreage, most of which is unmaintained woodland. The guy we bought it from had been managing it for timber, sort of, but wasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Bear tracksLast Friday I commented on Jeff VanderMeer’s essay for Orion, wherein he argued that it’s kind of silly to get obsessed with Bigfoot when there are real actual bears out there doing demonstrably interesting things. I share VanderMeer’s love of bears, and finding bear tracks and sign is one of…
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Continue reading →: E Pluribus UnumI hadn’t actually planned to watch the Super Bowl yesterday. I have a friend who I watch it with some years, because his household gets really into it, and that more or less makes up for the fact that I’ve never cared much about football. (I feel like an 80s…
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Continue reading →: A Superb OwlNot the greatest photo–it was taken with a cell phone and is super zoomed in, but I was so excited when I saw this screech owl right outside my house a year and a half ago. I’m not much of a sports person but it’s pretty exciting around Seattle today.…
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Continue reading →: Poachers turned rangers, complicity in tyranny, the colors of marble, bears > Bigfoot, For All Mankind
Francis Annagu’s “How Former Poachers are Protecting Nigeria’s Vanishing Rainforest” explores the lines of tension, conflict, and resolution in taking a conservation approach to a multiuse ecosystem. Buried deep in the heart of this article is one way—probably the most effective way—to turn hunters into rangers: make the latter a…
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Continue reading →: In gratitude: Fobazi Ettarh
I haven’t worked in libraries since 2023, but I still follow that world closely enough to learn this week that Fobazi Ettarh had passed away. Though I never met her, seeing the outpouring of support and good memories across library social media is a testament to both her influence and…
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Continue reading →: A Long, Dry January
After a December where it rained so much and so hard that river valleys flooded and levees breached, it’s been weirdly dry in the Pacific Northwest. A near-record streak of rainless days broke a few days ago, but it’s been so warm that the mountains still have way less snow…
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Continue reading →: Frozen water below a freewayDetermined to hike some more this year so hit up Franklin Falls as a quick out-and-back–maybe 4 miles total from the winter parking area–with this stunning payoff at the turnaround. One of my favorite things about this spot, though, is that it’s literally below I-90 right before it climbs through…
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