Fireflies

Art by ying yi

High Country Lighting: Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

© riverwindphotography

Art by J Edward Neill

A collection of Lodgepole pine cones along Lake Creek, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

© riverwindphotography, March 2022

Fungi collected on a fall weekend of mushroom walks led by John Michelotti of Catskill Fungi

Pay attention closely to your surroundings without using thought.. Where are you? What feelings are passing through you? What sounds can you hear? Feel. Breathe. Listen.. be easy on yourself today. Be ok with where you are at this moment. Feel your muscles unwind and just sink into your essence. Find yourself there.

Imho the idea of ‘cruelty free’ products or food shouldn’t mean that nothing died to create it, but rather that anything and anyone involved in the creation process hasn’t been exploited or harmed.

Leather is good actually. Veganism isn’t the end all be all to morality and consumption. The issue isn’t that a chicken died for those nuggets, but that while the chicken was alive, it’s life fucking sucked. Vegan chocolate means little if the cocoa that made it was gathered by child slave labor.

Factory farms, abuses of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables we eat, the focus profit and productivity over all else - that’s the fucking issue here. It’s capitalism folks.

Fruska gora, Novi Sad, Serbia by Dejan Zakic

Currently filled with dread as I know the minutes are slowly, slowly ticking by, and eventually I'll have to get everything ready and go to bed, only to wake up tomorrow and have to get ready for school. It's always the same.

Get up

Check phone + see what I have today

Get dressed

Brush hair

Make sure I look ok-ish

Eat something if I have the time.

Make Lunch if I have the time

Hurry off to the bus and pray I don't miss it

Get to school

Do school work

Then it's just go home, have about 3-4 hours for doing things, sleep. Rinse and repeat.