Odd how you entered my house quietly, Quietly left again. While you stayed you ate at my table, Slept in my bed. There was much sweetness, Yet little was done, little said. After you left there was pain, Now there is no more pain.
But the door of a certain room in my house Will be always shut. Your fork, your plate, the glass you drank from, The music you played, Are in that room With the pillow where last your head was laid. And there is one place in my garden Where it’s best that I set no foot.
A wooden bowl full of blue and red berries, fresh from the bushes beside the roads, washed of petrol stains. Take it: love with reason, their eyes say, therefore hope, without reserve. Take the gift, accept the reason, lever our hearts over the barricade with an explanation.
The children stare wide eyed at the strangers and smile for ever. The day moulded out of light, the mutual seed, springs open in time it costs nothing but persistence. A linking gesture across the border holds the ring dance open to the hearth, where the old ones sit.
Wisps of blue smoke rise from the houses into the distance. The true moment moves among us, everyone’s work as it works everyone’s fault as it fails, held in the song’s return, a hope balanced on a point of flesh against fate’s gerrymandering, everyone’s wish in your tear ever shining
And stabled there. Politicians and clouds brush the fine heads of the children turned upwards; a laugh, short and light, rolls down the land, a reasoned hope in which they turn in the dance, hand on sleeve: Welcome welcome, bird in the bush, fish in the flood, futureless presence ringing the earth.
when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here(orhere if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!
Please reblog this version so others can get involved!
Big poem today. I started writing about remembering childhood and how memories stay with us and it turned into some musings about interconnectedness and non-duality.
It’s so easy to see ourselves as an entity separate from the world around us, but this is far from the truth and the cause of so much unnecessary suffering in our lives.
I’ll come back to this theme with more poems soon, but for now, stay with this quote by John Muir that also speaks of this interconnectedness I’m talking about: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
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My final painting for #monthoffear. I can’t help but conflate the idea of breathlessness with the inability to verbalize or express oneself, to externalize the internal. To connect with and be understood by others. Thank you for your patience with my finishing this being delayed due to illness and life things, I am much better now!
CONNECTION. I was sliding back and forth onto this realm, the rainy gloom softened entrance. I pierced the lobes of law by songs of sirens, harpies, my own scream, fists’ heat unwrapped, came back from diamond cave, Fantplastic wrap me back, I glued my face to your pores, breathing in wet warmth, sick sun sunk with toxins and temporarity. -Shaltmira _______________________ • Ink on paper. See the full illustration on my website: shaltmira.com • Taking commissions for illustrations, album covers, logos, posters: [email protected]
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How do you understand the term spirit? Does it include connection? Something Greater? Something Vital?
Something greater might be God, it might be nature, it might be the universe. The words will always be inadequate. And will vary from person to person.
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life—delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay—I hold this question as a guiding light: ‘What do I really need right now to be happy?’ What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.
