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Read widely-- it helps you as a writer.
Enjoy a variety of art. It improves your work as an artist.
Listen to a broad range of music, it benefits you with the other arts, and vice versa.

Something 'opens up' and it comes through in what you create.

#art #writing #music

The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.

Photo Credit: Steve Sargent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sargimuss/26650626112

#nature #photography #fungi

Mastodon is perfect for GenX because we’re all just roaming from house to house totally unsupervised and unless something goes really wrong nobody cares #GenX

One of the world’s longest-running experiments has been going for 143 years!

In 1879, botanist William Beal wanted to find out how long seeds could remain viable underground. So he buried bottles with different kinds of seeds in a secret spot somewhere on the Michigan State University campus, knowing the experiment might outlive him.

It did! Every 20 yrs, a small group scientists still dig up the bottles and seeds continue to germinate 🌱 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/science/beal-seeds-experiment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science

How One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt

Every 20 years under the cover of darkness, scientists dig up seeds that were stashed 142 years ago beneath a college campus.