Posts by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
(DIR) Post #AZcuRRntFQK38cphia by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2023-09-10T14:08:51Z
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I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country... How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?- Bill Hicks#quotes
(DIR) Post #Ab05DG8kGV9lBBvfu4 by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2023-10-21T14:16:58Z
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I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this. The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost sight of that. I don’t live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn’t flow, and where life stops. I don’t want to live in a dead place. People say that I don’t live in a real world, but it’s modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes. They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box. Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box.Break out of the box! This not the way humanity lived for thousands of years.- Eustace Conway#quotes
(DIR) Post #Ab3cYUk3uhARZ9kxZQ by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2023-10-22T14:55:04Z
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Today’s plan:* Cut up wood for the fire pit* Eat the potato and leek soup @napalousa is making* Learn napalousa’s go-to bread recipe* Check the fall colors on a street in town lined with ginkgo trees (see pics for last year)* Enjoy my place in the universe
(DIR) Post #Ab4g6WYs9INi4kOtKi by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2023-10-22T17:09:45Z
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Job done. A few bits in the pile were further along the cycle of returning to earth but that should be at least one or two nights by the fire pit.Any idea what this stuff is on the one branch? A slime mold or something else?
(DIR) Post #AbfBls5RY8ISC6kZKi by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2023-11-10T12:21:20Z
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Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (2007) #FensterFreitag
(DIR) Post #Aicz9PebuYmIwZNbBA by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2024-06-05T19:21:37Z
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What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows!Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, this rain.As long as it talks I am going to listen.- Thomas Merton - “Rain and the Rhinoceros”#quotes
(DIR) Post #AitQZiE1qQB0veDZnU by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2024-06-13T18:20:11Z
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.- Susan B. Anthony#quotes
(DIR) Post #AjtHemvFs1PaY6kDho by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2024-07-13T14:32:49Z
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.- Leo Tolstoy - “Family Happiness”#quotes
(DIR) Post #AlIcRZX6LHQVg0kNdY by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2024-08-24T15:25:23Z
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Watching gardeners label their plantsI vow with all beingsto practice the old horticultureand let the plants identify me.- Robert Aitken - “The Dragon Who Never Sleeps”#quotes
(DIR) Post #An0FNvLqWyusNnnJVA by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2024-10-14T15:35:30Z
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Such are the lessons of the wild. The school where these lessons can be learned, the realms of caribou and elk, elephant and rhinoceros, orca and walrus, are shrinking day by day. Creatures who have traveled with us through the ages are now apparently doomed, as their habitat—and the old, old habitat of humans— falls before the slow-motion explosion of expanding world economies. If the lad or lass is among us who knows where the secret heart of this Growth-Monster is hidden, let them please tell us where to shoot the arrow that will slow it down. And if the secret heart stays secret and our work is made no easier, I for one will keep working for wildness day by day.- Gary Snyder - “The Etiquette of Freedom”#quotes
(DIR) Post #AnJ2l38U9C0pmmTq5Y by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2024-10-23T16:44:08Z
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"You're not a believer yourself, then, Mistress Weatherwax?"There was a few moments' silence as the mule picked its way over the mossy tree roots. Oats thought he heard, behind them, the sound of a horse, but then it was lost in the sighing of the wind."Oh, I reckon I believes in tea, sunrises, that sort of thing," said Granny."I was referring to religion.""I know a few gods in these parts, if that's what you mean."Oats sighed. "Many people find faith a great solace," he said. He wished he was one of them."Good.""Really? Somehow I thought you'd argue.""It's not my place to tell 'em what to believe, if they act decent.""But it's not something that you feel drawn to, perhaps, in the darker hours?""No. I've already got a hot water bottle."- Terry Pratchett - “Carpe Jugulum”#quotes
(DIR) Post #ApxonVlYgpowzQHYpc by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-01-11T05:38:48Z
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Not all criminals are billionaires but all billionaires are criminals.
(DIR) Post #AsDSdtJPiKhs8xYUvQ by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-03-19T14:25:07Z
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Listen, maybe I can’t change the world, but I can pass eggs over the fence to my neighbor to save them a few dollars. I can cross the street and fix another neighbor’s cabinets. I can send my kid to the house next door with a can of tomato sauce they need and they’ll come back with a box of cocoa powder they weren’t going to use. We can leave our old furniture at the curb and one of us will drive by and pick it up to fix and sell or keep. I’ll plant a garden since I have the space and time and I’ll share what I can and I’ll get calls from someone else asking if I can use a crate of oranges.I may not be able to change the world but I can do somethingSource: https://thededfa.tumblr.com/post/684448372226179072/listen-maybe-i-cant-change-the-world-but-i-canWayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605052937/https://thededfa.tumblr.com/post/684448372226179072/listen-maybe-i-cant-change-the-world-but-i-can#quotes
(DIR) Post #AsDSoOJxHMx7D9oceO by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-03-19T14:05:56Z
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Before I sign off, I just wanna say be kind to yourself out there folks. Take a little time to get outdoors, press palm to tree bark, look up into the sky and center yourself among all that which is ancient, green, and growing. There’s an awful lot of turmoil in the world and, well, the human brain is a sponge that soaks up news and information. I recommend that some of that information you consume comes from the wild places and enters through your own fingertips, your own eyes and ears. You are worth the time and effort to cultivate a little peace of mind.The Cryptonaturalist (@CryptoNaturalist) - Episode 13- Sassafras Grove#quotes
(DIR) Post #AtFrNQhMkqcbuhIyFE by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-04-19T15:22:30Z
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Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else's bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances.Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn't make you happy. Grow.- Paulo Coelho#quotes
(DIR) Post #AuKBBnnIH0lMS09wOG by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-05-21T15:45:01Z
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Ain't nothing wrong with me that a complete restructuring of our social, political, and economic systems couldn't fix.
(DIR) Post #AxuMK9irZswKLa35pA by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-09-05T20:58:38Z
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Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.From “Dune” by Frank Herbert#quotes
(DIR) Post #AynUnCF7ioLnXCm2Cm by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-10-02T03:21:41Z
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I needed this. You probably do too.“Rainbow Connection” - Kermit the Froghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Lkc6Gzlk
(DIR) Post #Ays0bQXygiBjaXrdui by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2025-10-04T15:49:21Z
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October 4, 1982 and still relevant.
(DIR) Post #B1snc5ssT6bnImeiw4 by ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
2026-01-02T17:48:59Z
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The hermit crab prefers a little shell for his home. He knows what the world holds. The osprey chooses the wild shoreline, and this is because he fears mankind. And I too am the same. Knowing what the world holds and its ways, I desire nothing from it, nor chase after its prizes. My one craving is to be at peace, my one pleasure to live free of troubles.- From “Hōjōki” by Chōmei#quotes