Developer, currently in a mix of fixing and feeling my way into many things.
Presently wondering what the pathways for being are on the rapidly changing Blackland Prairies.
Presences online have been more on bluesky lately (@vivekgani.bsky.social), but also on this elephantsite, the birdsite @vivekgani, and probly wherever else ya google my name.
P.S. I'm more liberal about boosting toots here due to how mastodon works, and carry less discernment around it compared the birdsite.
Next year on https://ecohana.mn.co our friends at One Earth Conservation are hosting two FREE online learning journeys:
- š¦ The Parrot's Perspective (starts Jan. 5th)
- š£ Care, Compassion, and Transformation in the Midst of Crisis (starts Feb. 15th)
Enter Frost: https://ecosystemguild.org/2018/09/10/frost/
Thankful for coming across the work of Paul Cereghino in Cascadia years ago, whose 'The Eight Season Year' helps narrate the seasonal shifts for those in northern temperate climates in species, vegetation, and human structures and social systems.
Late Autumn November 5 to December 22 The beginning of Frost are the last harvest festivals of Samhain, Holloween. The days are short. Frost becomes Darkness after Yule and shortest day of the Winter Solstice. Midwinter is celebrated throughout the temperate lands: Alban Arthan, Brumalia, Dongzhi, Korochun, Sanghamitta, Shalako, YaldÄ, Yule, ZiemassvÄtki, Saturnalia, Saint Lucy's
"This ācompulsion to proximityā [...] has the effect of reinforcing the āmagical, intensely personal, deeply emotional bonds that the medium had enabled them to forge among themselvesā [...]. Thus virtual travel has to be understood in relationship with extensive corporeal travel and the ways in which face-face conversation appears crucial for the development of trustful relationships within cyberspace."
- John Urry, in Automobility, Car Culture and Weightless Travel: A
discussion paper (1999)
I'm noticing a lot of people today talking about hashtag #climatechange today in areas such as a major city once known as Mannahotta. It's worth also thinking about urban heat effect on water vapor capacity, land-use change on water cycles, etc. Feel into the complexity that includes not just carbon but the other factors involved in our planetary boundaries.
on water cycle: https://youtu.be/BzB8wzQqsjc?si=8QDASkMzYKkO7TGL&t=1017
on urban ecological footprint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-AsQkunHQ&t=450s
https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/carbon-warming-water-cooling
Sitting at the same library where 11 years ago I was unemployed and self-learning cocoa and objective-c with a bit of ego trying to prototype UI.
The high technology bits have broken and changed over the years, the UI projects are long dead, and yet the bag and bottle and library environment remain aging stalwarts, and the outside environment remains similar though stressed from drought and freezes. Makes one reflect what to spend their remaining time composting and cultivating.
12 years ago, I remember roadtripping through the night to hike Big Bend with friends.
In July.
We packed and carried gallons of water, had to setup a rainfly to rest for lunch since there were no trees around, and barely managed a day of hiking out in the sun. But we did it, and had stories to remember.
Seems essentially impossible to do such a thing the past couple summers.
Controlled Environment Agriculture microgreens shipped from New Jersey to Texas by a business that filed for bankruptcy weeks ago, what a strange time to be alive...
(arguably no different than imported produce but still caught my eye)
