Using multi-genre excerpts, this generative workshop will explore techniques oriented towards breathing dynamic and complex life into natural settings, non-human characters, and journeys through the wild world. Sign up: tinhouse.com/product/summer…

As devastating as it is uplifting...

Welp, I finally got COVID for the first time and it is not as mild as I'd hoped. Silver lining: it's the best thing that's ever happened to my insomnia. I'm exhausted and sleep like a baby.

I'm speaking on a panel about "Resilience and Connection Amidst Ecological Change" next Monday July 29th at 7 PM. Join remotely here: members.spiritualcarepartners.com/events/resilie…

She’s so beautiful. This performance is perfect. She’s 40 here. You can see how Anita Baker came to be. Some of the loveliest use of vibrato in history. And unquestionable great! The absolute pleasure of listening to here absolute pleasure in singing! That smile omg!😍

Call for papers for Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference sponsored by Harvard Divinity's Center for the Study of World Religions to be held at Harvard Univ, May 15-17, 2025. Honorariums for selected speakers. Deadline Nov 4, 2024. cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/08/c…

Speechless and heartbroken today at the news of tragedy at my alma mater Rice University. Furious at the continued violence against women in the country (and worldwide), undergirded by easy access to firearms. president.rice.edu/communications…

“From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.” — Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, "In Praise of Shadows"

In her pursuit to understand plants on their own terms, Rachael Petersen Rachael Petersen marries the empirical with the imaginal to answer questions like: What is “animate” or “inanimate”? Read how Petersen is re-weirding the Western canon: buff.ly/3yTIHv4

PLANT THINKERS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY BENGAL This book, contracted nearly 6yrs ago, will be published by Oxford University Press next month. It is a record of philosophical botany that I've discovered in writers, scientists, artists &the collective anonymous academic.oup.com/book/57953

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the “plant messiah” by some. Read more: nyti.ms/4dFUsEr

Free webinar: The Quest for the Plant Script with Author Sumana Roy Sumana Roy, Tue, Sep 24, 2024. 5:30–7pm ET. Also in-person in Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the Thinking with Plants and Fungi initiative, Center for the Study of World Religions Harvard Divinity

Thanks for putting this exciting piece together and for giving opportunity to be part of it with Jonny Lee 🧠🪴 Congratulations to you and other editors as well as to all authors! 🙂 🌱 Enjoyed and Loved it!! 🌱

Why have our writers, artists, thinkers, & scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Join Sumana Roy at Harvard Divinity for her talk "The Quest for the Plant Script” 9/24, 5:30 PM ET harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Mike Collins represents GA-10 where Apalachee High School is located. Here's the commercial he made when he first ran for congress.

Sorry, fresh out of thoughts and prayers. Henceforth only trafficking in serious policy reforms.

Goya’s ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ (1799) is thought to reinforce Enlightenment rationality. But its caption tells a diff story: ‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders’

I'll be speaking about THE PLANT SCRIPT, my new work in philosophical botany, at HARVARD UNIVERSITY on 24th September. Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 5: 30 – 7 pm Common Room, 42 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/upcoming-… Thanks to Rachael Petersen for organising this.

Linda Gregg, who would have turned 82 today