I’ve been thinking some about value – what it is, how it’s formed, how we account for it. I’d love to know what you think of the results. https://www.patreon.com/posts/129252509

#avocados require patience. It may take up to a week for that avocado at the store to be ready to eat, but it took 15 months to go from a flower to harvest. These won't be picked until mid-summer 2025.

Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda will face significant hurdles that will make it difficult to carry out as promised, which is why the main & immediate effect of these threats, according to research, is to compel people of color and immigrants to limit their social visibility.

At this point in my life, having been well-acquainted with anarchist collectives, nonprofit boards, community groups, corporate management, labor unions and legislative bodies, I feel like one of the biggest barriers to progress is that people just don't know how to make collective decisions.

I've meet groups of people with little formal education that can run circles around otherwise sophisticated, cosmopolitan urban decision makers when it comes to what to do, how and when. So many of the latter end up either traumatized by the experience and/or create hierarchies, whether formal or informal.

My theory is that collective decision making is a skill that we've effectively lost in modern society. We're told what to do at home as kids, at school as students, and at work as adults and end up stunted. We can't express our desires, our needs, we can't dialogue and we can't compromise.

So, I started this painting a few days ago, and I think I finished it on election night while I was trying not to listen to the news. It’s not the composition I had in mind when I started, but I kinda feel like adding more things, like trees, or boats or tentacles would be too much. I think it stands as it is? I dunno. What think y’all? (My bestie said she thought it was nice of me to paint a portal for us to all use to get back to Earth1, as this timeline is fubar.) #art #painting #oilpainting