Good Things Friday (242) and Link Love
October 13, 2023
1. I am cultivating patience by cultivating my garden. The berries will take months to grow to the point of fruiting. The potatoes will do what potatoes do until they’re ready. The onions are (I think) growing day by day under the soil. There’s absolutely nothing I could do to rush anything and it’s forcing me to take more deep breaths.
2. I’m also having to be patient with my attempts to make friends with the blackbirds. The crow army doesn’t visit daily like they used to and the pairs are far more wary of people than the army is so I have to bide my time. It means I catch bits that I might miss in my rushing about, like watching a neighborhood raven run while I plotted ways to leave a treat for it that it would notice. A raven’s run is delightful.
3. The Hermits Union is still racking up the miles for charity. Just a couple days left to get that match. If you’d like to contribute to our team’s efforts with cash, we still have another $4500 available match dollars.
Challenges this week: All of them. The world. Work. Home. Everything is feeling extra hard.
Keith Giffen passed away. He was among the greats in comics and it’s hard to realize that my comics mentor’s burying friends of a lifetime: Keith Giffen, Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes Icon, Passes Away at 70
I hope we see more and more of this: Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back
I haven’t made explicit friends with mine, but I love the neighborhood crows. I love that they seem to prefer to walk a lot of the time, when crossing the street for example. I feel like if I had wings, I would rarely use my feet to walk!
YES I just saw one of our morning crows strutting across the street this morning and it made me laugh so much.