Mirabilia Magpie

Late bloomers often seem to be chasing phantom goals, or no goals at all. They might have a sense of some future success, however vague, and they’re willing to let current opportunities pass them by in pursuit of the bigger goal – with really no guarantee of success at all. This is not just how late-life success is made. This is the cause of much

Digital gardens are not about creating utopias. Rather, they design towards the small and slow progress of protopias, as defined by futurist Kevin Kelly as “a state that is better today than yesterday.” We need protopias, alternatives, and the seeds of gardens. We need space to dream, and for that dreaming to connect to concrete action.

Central has proven that when the flora, fauna and funga that grow together share a plate together, the resulting flavors can be extraordinary. How can we get the wider world to think about what we eat in a way where all the pieces fit together within a balanced ecological puzzle, not just prizing certain ingredients or ones that are easy to produce

9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin

1. You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.

2. Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get

Pleasure activism is about learning what it means to be satisfiable, to generate, from within and from between us, an abundance from which we can all have enough.

You don’t find clarity by choosing a topic—you find it by chasing the thing that won’t leave you alone.

Topics feel like boxes — tidy, labeled, stackable.
Curiosity feels like a spark — unpredictable, alive, worth following.

I don’t start with “what to write about.”
I start with what’s tugging at me.
A sentence I can’t shake.
A question that hums under