N.A. Chapman 🍄

Oak Tree Feeding. The oak has a name for each of its hungers. Crawling devourer. Mouthless, soaring under the summer moon. (Luna moth). Strange sunless cousin that bores in roots and befriends mushrooms. (Bear corn). Immune riddle that once wrote many stories. (Oak gall wasp).

Thousands of names stack up in the oak's long memory and each one beats out a wisdom born by deep roots and thousands of suns: to eat is to feed, to survive is to be more than one, to be alive is to be many. So, when a single child goes hungry, it is as if we have forgotten our own name.

🌳 Take the oak’s great lesson: we have many names along the paths we tread, and most do not belong to us alone.

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Saturn rises beacon-bright. Feather-light, you must away.

It's saw-whet migration season. 🦉 😎🦉 Allons-y.

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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

Since it’s apparently been forgotten substack platforms Nazis

I will never follow a link from there an if you’ve built a following there you should find a way to go somewhere else

It is easy to feel lost in such times. Society crumbles away beneath us. But everywhere I see those building the world we want to live in. Feeding the hungry. Housing the homeless. Protecting creatures no one else even notices. Fighting fiercely for lands others would trade for pennies. We don’t need to find a better world. It is already here.

🦉 Let's take a page from one of the smallest owls in the world: we know the way home.

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I want the rest of us to know this.

I want folks to speak to their lives , to the diversity of who we are, the sustenance of our future and the immediacy of this moment

That if you start talking and seeing and LISTENING to people

who work ?

We can do this

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Raise a glass to freedom! 🍻

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

Digging for minerals in the Pacific's graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed “The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed.

“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”

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#Hawaiian #Hawaii #Ocean #Minerals #Mining

White text on a textured green background reads: That is the paths we tread here together, dearest waylarks - paths toward better worlds, always just beyond the next bend. The world around us closes its tired eyes but what dreams may come then. What strange meanderings of light reveal themselves in the creeping shadows. What new worlds are revealed when the old one crumbles around us.

🌎 Together, we're forging paths to better worlds. Want to come along? Allons-y.

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Black text on a textured cream background reads: Fish Crow Calling. The fish crow  calls and tugs in its net of falling light. The net tumbles and spills, rays splashing onto  the golden shallows in the canopy,  wriggling shadows sinking into  emerald depths. The crow hunts  with black eyes  among its spilled catch.  There!

Black text on a textured cream background continues: Scurrying free,  hope dwindling. It plunges   into a hidden crevice  and waits  for the rippling splintered sea  of spring.

🪶 The fish crow throws its net of falling light. What may it catch?

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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

1. Washington DC

#NoKings 👑

When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.

🐸

A collage of photos sits on a dark textured background. Blazing orange mushrooms burst from the center, rooting deep into tree roots shining with turquoise. And all around this entanglement, blue butterflies flutter and sit and wing. It is a blazing entanglement of life.

An original collage called "Entanglement."

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Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships Climate fiction: When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.

Here's your daily dose of climate fiction.

Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships.

When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.

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#Fiction #Solarpunk #Climate #BookSky #ClimateFiction #Teacher

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials.

A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.

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#Climate #BosPoli #AI #Data #Electricity #Utilities

Publishers Weekly starred review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE.

It's pub day for THE OTHER SHORE, Ursula K. Le Guin winner Rebecca Campbell's ARBOREALITY follow-up and debut collection. In 10 stories set in dark west coast forests and their ruins, this book is exquisite literary spec fic perfect for spooky season. It got a PW star!

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Hundreds airlifted from storm-battered Western Alaska villages in historic evacuation The Alaska Airlines Center arena at the University of Alaska Anchorage will shelter 300 displaced residents starting Wednesday evening, the American Red Cross said.

It can't be overemphasised how much of a disaster is happening in western AK right now. Kipnuk and Kwigillingok are evacuating, with people only allowed to bring one bag and being forced to leave everything else (including their pets).

We bleed. We weep. We root. Then, we bloom.

🍄 Like mushrooms on a fallen tree, let's decompose grief to grow tomorrow's hope.

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That is our purpose, I think, as writers, as artists, as wanderers and waylarks right now. We feed on these dark times. We point to safe refuges in the dark of fertile soil. Then, we herald light’s return.

What should the artist be in these times? Fungal. 🍄

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Incredible 🩵 “Toronto’s multibillion-dollar effort to re-naturalize a major river and the surrounding lands, was advertised as one of the “largest waterfront revitalization projects” in the world. … the discoveries have underscored the resilience of ecosystems in the face of human-led destruction.”

Text on a textured navy background says: Field Notes #2: Snakeroot Blooming

White text on a textured green background says: Snakeroot Blooming. The low lazy light of autumn’s reverie sends shadows dancing upon the speckled forest floor. The summer chorus is but a whisper. Wood ears harden from blood to bone. Dry leaves and acorns pummel the gasping ground. The rot of strange fruit burns. The river flows backward.

Fallen trunks of some old beasts crack the shadow dance and golden light shines upon a thicket of snakeroot blooms. The golden air ripples with a sea of bees and a moth or two drinking tomorrow’s honey. Amid decay, the forest breathes. Can you? By N.A. Chapman @waylarking

Whoa, fellow waylark. Slow down, and stay awhile. The storm outside is gathering strength, but between the curtains of rain, snakeroot blooms in late summer meadows, besotted by bees.

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Field Notes #1: Hawk Song On hawks, monarchs, and blooming boneset

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Text on a textured background says: Field Notes #1. Hawk Song.

Text on a textured cream background says: Hawk Song. Wispy fingers grasp the hills. A heavy veil for winged sight commands: don’t believe your eyes or ears, but Shenandoah silver seeps through washing the white bones of the mountains clean and leaving a rusted carcass to crumble on the banks. River glass and blooming boneset burst through the cracks. Monarchs rise rising high into the azure sky ripping the clouds anew. Higher and higher we rise higher than a half-mast masquerade crawling with a red-eyed devouring.

Text on a textured cream background says: We rise feather-bright on warm winds. We rise following paths the hills stitch into our hearts and the rivers sew into our souls. Higher and higher a clarion call into a wide sky eyes wide open we rise. By N.A. Chapman. @waylarking

Hello, fellow waylarks! Sit down here. Stay awhile. The day outside is darkening, but here we have a warm fire and sustenance for your soul. Take this hawk song for your journey. Keep it close. Imagine sprouting feathers and winging your way home.

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Welcome to Entangled Worlds Field Notes on Hope in a World Unraveling

Are you hungry for stories? Craving hope? Seeking wonder? I'm re-launching my blog as a weekly poetry newsletter. Each week I'll post my field notes on finding hope through nature and stories. 📚 Read below or subscribe for free. Allons-y.

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