Stand still & look around…

...and...be grateful... I know, I have written before about being grateful. About ot being upset all the time with the hard things, with the painful things, with the things you want, or need even, but that are out of your reach... But, the way I have been feeling since the start of the new year, it made me want to write about it again. So, I sat down and... Wrote this bit. 😉 I tried to look up my previous posts with the tags "grateful" and "gratefulness", and found that I got quite some results. So, I linked the searches to the words here, should you want to check the out. But, I always feel like I take too much for granted, like I am never grateful enough... And at times where my AuDHD/cPTSD is/are going a bit wilder, I struggle with that, as I always feel like I've been too ungrateful. About things I have, about things I can do, but most of all, towards others that have helped and supported me. […]

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/stand-still-look-around/

A friend displays her "pre-engagement" ring at our Bicentennial Halloween party. I'm sorry to see this "jewelers' fabrication" is still popular. #materialworld #consumer #consumerism #heartyconsumerism #americanconsumerism #jewelry #jewels #massconsumerism #capitalism
"Material World. A substantial story of our past and future" by Ed Conway.
What a good book. Sky News journalist Ed Conway writes about six materials which determine the faith of humanity: sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. Makes you marvel at human engineering and aware about our dependency on them and the environmental damage their exploiting brings to earth
#bookstodon #vendredilecture #books #mastolivre #livre #materialworld #edconway #salt #sand #iron #copper #oil #lithium

“What I have just said regarding the nature of the astral scenery must not be taken as indicating that the Astral, itself, is merely imaginary or unreal in any sense. Nor is the substance of which the scenery is composed any less real than the substance of which the material world is composed. On the material plane, substance manifests as matter; while on the astral plane it manifests in a finer form of ‘stuff’ or material.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/10/08/what-i-have-just-said-regarding-the-nature-of-the-astral-scenery-must-not-be-taken-as-indicating-that-the-astral-itself-is-merely-imaginary-or-unreal-in-any-sense-nor-is-the-substance-of-which-th/

"What I have just said regarding the nature of the astral scenery must not be taken as indicating that the Astral, itself, is merely imaginary or unreal in any sense. Nor is the substance of which the scenery is composed any less real than the substance of which the material world is composed. On the material plane, substance manifests as matter; while on the astral plane it manifests in a finer form of 'stuff' or material." - The Hermetic Library Blog

What I have just said regarding the nature of the astral scenery must not be taken as indicating that the Astral, itself, is merely imaginary or unreal in any sense. Nor is the substance of which the scenery is composed any less real than the substance of which the material world is composed. On the […]

The Hermetic Library Blog

🧵MATERIAL WORLD THREAD COLLECTION🧵 Ed Conway

Writing #MaterialWorld was the most fascinating thing I've ever done.

It completely changed how I look at the world.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1669363611167338496.html

Thread by @EdConwaySky on Thread Reader App

@EdConwaySky: That’s me in the hard hat, in front of the bucket of a terrifyingly enormous digger. What you can’t really tell from the picture is that my head was spinning. I’d just had one of...

米国 : 湖底のリチウム鉱脈で充電池原料を自給?

Lithium Valley (Big Picture Science)

Big Picture Scienceポッドキャストの「Lithium Vally」というエビソード。スマホ、ラップトップ、EV、太陽光発電などに必要な充電池に欠かせないリチウム採掘の話。カリフォルニア州のソルトン湖底に、世界のリチウムの40%近い鉱脈がある。採掘が軌道に乗れば国内需要を充足できる。環境保護と資源開発の折り合いをつけるのがこれからの課題。

ゲストは英TImes紙のコラムニストで、「Material World : THE SIX RAW MATERIALS THAT SHAPE MODERN CIVILIZATION」という著書で、世界文明を形成してきた6つの物質(sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium)という切り口からまとめた エド・コンウェイ(Ed Conway)氏。

#EdConway #lithium #MatatabiNews #MaterialWorld #SaltonSea

https://www.matatabi.com/b/Xj

This applies both to the production of “stuff” as well as to the resources that make that production possibile ― oil, gas, steel, rare earths, etc. Crucially, much of that “stuff” is located and/or produced in the non-Western world ― or the expanding BRICS+ bloc. That says all we need to know about the geopolitical power shift underway.

#materialism #materialworld #sand #salt #oil #gas #steel #lithium

We had to build a battery
Which would not explode, you see
We sought out lithium
To finally get the go-ahead
And now it runs our EVs!

#evrevolution #lithiumbattery #materialworld #batterytechnology #limerick #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-material-world-ed-conway-knopf-153010572.html

How we built a less-explodey lithium battery and kickstarted the EV revolution

For the final installment of Hitting the Books for 2023, we're bringing you an excerpt from the fantastic Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape...

Engadget

Material World by Ed Conway is excellent book. Everyone posting/tooting anything about #climatecrisis and/or #climatechange should read it.

If you don't have time then atleast watch his wonderful interview in #fullycharged

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7z_PYlRSE

#MaterialWorld #EdConway

Mind-blowing Connections of Our Material World With Ed Conway | The Fully Charged Podcast

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