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I am obsessed with vegan boots and shoes.

I love bread.

Hello, It's Me

#squirrel
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"One does not return borrowed bread," says an old Sumerian proverb.

I spent a week in Chicago a year ago, my first visit to the city, and it was the best trip. People were unbelievably fun there.

My Viking ancestors interacted with Amanita toadstools, which can be processed to create muscimol, a sedative/psychedelic that was used all over the world during the stone age. Use persisted until modern times, and people are rediscovering this. #Microdosing amanita is ethereal and unpredictable.

Yeah, it's a lot. But then I imagine getting a degree in a related field and constantly seeing him online and wondering. All of Dr Mike's claims about his godlike IQ were just inviting negative energy.

"Do you even proof?"

This aged well.

processing what we are seeing. We miss things because we aren't really looking.

and solicit feedback from readers. Even readers who don't understand the words can point out mistakes. Professional proofreading is not a mistake when you are turning in your doctoral research. Find other students and do this for each other. Your eyes become fatigued with a text and we stop /4

He's handling it poorly, with excuses and nonsense, instead of just sitting in front of a camera and talking about how it's a messy and unreadable dissertation but it is not wrong, misleading, faulty in its thesis and argument, etc. Best practice for academic writers is to get eyes on your work /3

how many dissertations could survive intense scrutiny in a public forum? It's the dream of a lot of people that they would write a dissertation and get a doctorate and the world would read their dissertation! But by the time they turn it in, most folks are ragged and cross the finishing line. /2

The #DrMikeIsraetel situation is so odd. In the fitness community, a mouthy bodybuilder with a PhD is being called out for his ungrammatical and extremely flawed dissertation. I taught writing for years and yes, it's perhaps the worst dissertation I've seen in a long time, but /1

I've been using ammonia with my laundry -- not every item, not every time -- but every two weeks or so I will wash my towels and washcloths and bedding in hot water with ammonia and detergent. Keep far from bleach, and use vinegar in the rinse to neutralize the pH a smidge.

All Hallow's Eve and the creatures of the night. I love the crows and I love to see their wise and crafty claws. I admire their design.

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#crows

The Burning Court (1962) on Tubi is a goofy horror thriller from France, mostly in English but with some scenes in French. I love watching French people being dignified in all of the quiet ways they have of treating themselves well. I love seeing people properly dressed to take a cup of coffee.

Ducky

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Water is so beautiful to photograph sometimes

This was the first thing I learned when I started playing with cameras years ago: the black squiggles on the water at dawn when you face the sunrise directly. Throw in a duck, I realized, and you have a pattern and a focus. I still take this photo almost every time I go to the river. #photography

In BC, I used to sit on the bluffs above the shore and listen to the crows in the trees around me. I fed them hamburgers sometimes, which they loved. "Should you be feeding them hamburgers? Can they eat those?" a friend asked, and I felt macabre reminding her that they ate corpses in general

I spent four days in Chicago a year ago and it was the best experience. The people were the best thing. Tough, smart, good eye contact, hard workers, and the whole state is a treasure.

I love crows and ravens and magpies and all of the corvids. They are cantankerous and fun-loving creatures. Like many people who grew up in the wilderness, I learned how to imitate crow sounds when I was young and I can testify that some crows are very interested when you talk to them. #photography

A lovely spider on a bridge. I wanted to see if the waves on the river blurred in the background would work with the web. It woiked. It woiked. #photography

I don't like throwing things out. I still have my old Canon DSLR (Rebel T6) and I just spent the morning with it. It's slower, it's clunkier, it's bigger, and it works perfectly. I learned how to juggle exposure factors on this camera, and I have a ton of EF lenses. It's a keeper. #photography

Jupiter and the Moon with Venus closer to the horizon at dawn. I am an astrology skeptic, but the imagery fascinates me. I was born with a Venus-Moon conjunction, and with Jupiter in the midheaven. Jupiter = bigness, expansion. Venus = love (venereal love, even). The moon = our emotions. Good stuff.

I met a spider this morning while I was testing out a 10mm lens. #photography

"And the summer became the fall. I was not ready for the winter. It makes no difference at all because I wear boots all summer long. Eye makeup dark -- and it's careless, some circles round my eyes. Sometimes, the real color of my skin is my eyes without any shadow."
--Stevie Nicks

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I am about to take another train odyssey on Amtrak with a backpack and a camera. $499 gets you 10 tickets to be used within 30 days, with some limits. I took several 20 hr rides, and I might book even longer ones.

This is a freight train crossing the Clearwater yesterday. #photography

The farthest background is hidden by smoke, and even the far side of the bridge is soft. I'm always trying to combine documentary and drama.

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