Thought provoking

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means – The Marginalian

Mushrooms possess a remarkable and previously unrecognized mechanism to actively disperse their spores, challenging the long-held belief that spore dispersal is a passive process at the mercy of external winds. This mechanism relies on evaporative cooling and convective airflows, allowing mushrooms to exert control... See more

Sam Knowlton substack.com

Bayo Akomolafe post from 2nd Aug 2025:

My sharing to Erik which inspired these cards and convo

I often ask myself what my cosmopoetics truly offers these times of suffering and pain, what it offers these moments of relentless movement-building, and our shared longings for a more beautiful world.

The ideas of the paragogical (that we cannot unlearn

Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.

In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody.... See more

Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain

aka what we refer to as ‘natural selection’, whereby reality is constantly deleting, revising, evloving, at the foaming edge of becomingness; no Hero’s journey of striving to Be The Best Self, just a love-driven exploration of what can be possible, to know ourself in every way, distilled by the pain and joy of existing; n’er static, (by definition it cannot be);

The first issue of Nature, in 1869, opened with a collection of aphorisms by the German poet Goethe, expressing his vision of nature's living powers:

"Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her; powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.... We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to

The Hidden Goddesses of Darwinism

Rupert Sheldrake, quoting Goethe;

Starborne Spring 2025.pdf

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Natural Selection is no Hero’s Journey, no Deity Designing

And sadly we’ve cocooned ourselves so far from the pressures, the larger forces at ecological play we (we being the privileged few in wealthy, prevalent cultures, the 1/3rd or Global North ….) have actually de-volved as a result. Our social licence is writ large with one basic, infantile

To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?

Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Anne Bogart

For adding to you are a fully fleshed Alchemist;