Thomas Winfield Marie

Storm The wanderer suddenly comes upon the huge ancient oak, like a petrified elk whose crown spans miles before the murky green stronghold of the September sea. Northern storm. The time when the rowanberry clusters ripen. Awake in the dark, you hear the constellations stamping in their stalls high above the trees.

Read 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼's @danielnemo.bsky.social new translation of 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒐 by Tomas Tranströmer, the second poem of his first book, 17 𝑷𝙤𝒆𝙢𝒔 (1954).

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Also I really like “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia”, which I wouldn't say is dense theory but it is a bit more of an academic style historical approach, certainly information-dense.

I haven't read her books, but I think Virginia Sole Smith does this well in her podcasts, personally!

Thanks! Did you initiate imaging or did your doctor?

I keep re-injuring my neck and it is clearly not really healing- when it's flared up doctors have just given me more acetaminophen or occasionally steroids, and I'm not sure if I should push for some kind of imaging. It's making it painful and difficult to commute, work, sleep...

ONE DAY & THE NEXT You, like the wind in the mountains. The quiet like a bird before us, another clear presence. I won, I lost, we believed in the austere wonders the branch quickly drew upon the heavens, carrying us & growing through heaving white to the path of the moon, a tomorrow lept into yesterday, we brought the atomized candelabra, I placed everything in the hand of no one.

Paul Celan, tr. Will Bennett

Text reads: Every map has a dent Every dent is a river Every river evident Even those gone forever.

This little poem came to me in my dreams last night.

Trandscendentalist landscapes paintings of mountains for me, because I so associate that philosophical and artistic movement (and mountaineering) with the construction of "wilderness" in the US.

The FWHA native revegetation tool (ERA) seems to be down. www.nativerevegetation.org/era/
Anyone know if this is shutdown related/permanent? #nativeplants #ecologicalrestoration #FWHA #DOT

🧵Landlord not fixing the heat in your home? You have the right to be warm! #MA state law requires landlords heat your home to at least 64ºF at night and 68ºF during the day from September 15 to May 31. If a landlord does not provide heat REPORT IT TO your local inspectional services department.

Botanical art by Hillary Waters Fayle

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This same thing happened to me once in Sweden, but I think that was just the natural Swedish reaction to being spoken to at all by an excited stranger.

Shapeshifters is my recommendation. They have a lot of customization options (functional and aesthetic), are made for safety, and I know the owner (who's great). They are not the lowest cost option out there probably but well made, comfortable, and long lasting. They also have a good info page.

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi (It Started in the Woods), by Agalisiga 11 track album

I'm off Spotify because I don't like hearing ICE ads - Right now I've been listening to this album on Bandcamp. Classic folk/country in the Cherokee language. Really chill and lovely, one of my favorites - hortonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nasgin...

They did look so good though!!!

Wiley's crummy new AI-driven submission platform is barely usable. It's pretty impressive to not have been able to improve on ScholarOne.

I like transexual and use it for myself! But I really dislike it being used to separate people based on their transitional paths (also enforces a "transitioned/not transitioned" false binary). I'm generally tetchy about other people using the term for me - should be a self descriptor IMO.

If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.

but on the surface the CLA is free of all of it. Still you can't help but try (and fail) to imagine how it could have possibly come together. Lowe must have lived a very interesting life. Also, neither here nor there really, but Lowe was Boris Johnson's great grandfather.

He was injured and then spent much of the rest of the war reading manuscripts in Prague. I don't know if there are letters between the two of them about the Codices effort - I would be fascinated to read them. Some of the effort may have been motivated by the war - to preserve the manuscripts (🧵)

from France, England, Italy, Germany. How did Elias collect these photographed manuscripts, assess their condition, etc. across Europe during wartime? One of his main collaborators was Bernard Bischoff, a German historian/philologist. Bischoff fought as a soldier against France during WWII. (🧵)

from all over Europe (21 countries). If you work in paleography, you know Codices Latini Antiquiores (CLA). This was a large part of his life's work. Much of it took place during and just after WWII. I always wondered about this when I used CLA in college and saw all the MSS compiled (🧵)

Here's a fascinating story which I want to dig into one day. Elias Lowe (né Loew) was born in 1879. A Lithuanian Jew, emigrated into NYC at 13. Became a well known palaeographer, worked at Oxford, Princeton. From 1934 - 1971, he published a collection of catalogued Latin manuscripts sourced (🧵)

I haven't responded yet because I'm busy breathlessly cherishing the moment but I received an email from a reader of my poetry chapbook last night that made me cry because it was so nice.😿💗

"Peace"

The Draw of Winter An October morning, the mist above the river drifts into invisibility and the fields begin to smell of sunrise, damp, straw-scented, redolent of summer’s end. I am heavy with the effort of harvest, long to burrow myself away underground, wrap myself in dark nights and starless skies hide myself from the disturbance of the moon which tugs at me, gently but insistent that I must come out one winter evening and admire its pale-faced reflection in the still water.

Let’s have a poem

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Two wolves curled up together- one is greyish-blue and the other is reddish-brown. They are at the mouth of a cave, with dead trees in the background. Autumn leaves and snowflakes swirl around them.

Respite

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