After a long reticence, I wrote a little thing: "As Ovid notes, this “time is pure, having placated the dead/When the days devoted to the departed are over.” Ancestors, death, purging and purification, borders were the Imperial Romans' February ritual themes.
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yes, this is very near our house!
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fox pawprints on sand
young wheatfield with leaf-bare tree silhouettes at the horizon
shadows of a human and trees cast on a road and a green garden gate
dog and fox paw prints in mud
21.01.2025 22:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Note from the Fireline
In late August, before dawn broke on a foggy California morning, I marched with a crew of wildland firefighters through a redwood forest. We crossed a small farm, the jostle of our footsteps joining…
"If “wilderness” is an invention, so too is wildfire: the product of a view of nature as something external to society. The destructiveness of today’s fires “obliges us to revise knowledge calibrated to conditions that no longer exist.” " www.thedriftmag.com/a-note-from-...
09.01.2025 21:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dunno if LJ is still a thing but I also feel too cramped here, the character limit which at best could spawn pithy aphorisms more often just vomits up Hot Takes. Longform for the win! But Substack I am finding poorly organized and clunky to use. Maybe let's all just Make Books Read Again in 2025?
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The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
Strategies intended to safeguard forests and homes have instead increased the likelihood that they’ll burn.
And here is some great longform reporting from a year ago--which makes it exponentially truer, I guess. The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Sarah Falkner on Substack
Essential reading—Amanda Yates Garcia’s first-hand reportage of the fires du jour in California contextualizes them properly. Human actions and choices have made this catastrophe as harmful as it is, ...
Some essential reading—first-hand reportage of the fires du jour in California in context. Human actions and choices have made this catastrophe as harmful as it is, and California is a microcosm of the macrocosm in the technofascist oligarchy. The cruelty is the point. substack.com/@sarahfalkne...
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