Life’s been a slump as of late. Ths feeling of stuckness, of fighting up a hill that never ends when I can’t see the top… where to go from here? It’s unclear sometimes, even though I think I’m better than where I was a month or so ago. I have more projects, more things to do for joy than for some alterior purposeor just for money. Not that money is unimportant, or necessarily bad; it’s just that I want to do things for me, not for someone else’s dream to earn my keep, persay.
The plan was to wake up, eat well and sip a coffee, work my half day, go home and go to class. But as happens at least once a week, things didn’t go to plan. I woke up later than I intended to, and calmy rolled with that – but then found out I’d been…
If you’ve been reading a while, you might know a few things about me: I currently work in tech I have a lot of plants (and two cats) I like to learn, and I like to write about what I learn Over the summer, I mostly want to travel and relax in the sun and…
There is always something in the air in the forest. There was something especially in the air in the forest this evening. Something slipped through my pores and stuck to my skin like sticky seed burrs. The slip-slide-splat of mud; the schmuck of boots on damp leaves; the gentle pushback of moss on the woodland…
I’m posting this today because it’s been a rough week. I’m still going through post-vacation lack of motivation as well as some lovely PMS/PMDD symptoms. Plus a COVID scare, a bunch of open projects that I lack the motivation or energy to finish, and a huge veterinarian bill. Plants I would love to welcome into…
Only in New Jersey would this be the poster spread to warn about the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species on the east coast of the US that’s garnered a lot of publicity lately. But just what is an invasive species – and is that question as simple as science’s definition makes it out to be?…