Vintage car enthusiasts claim leaving a bar in cars in storage discourage rodents from getting in there. Some say it does work but most say not.

For a decade we yelled at our GSD for chasing the horses. Not because he was endangering them but he’d been kicked and we didn’t want him hurt. When he got old and slow - I knew he couldn’t get close so I stopped correcting him.

TEXT ON GRAPHIC Purple line: Nukes only (illustrative) Black line: Chatbots, AI, COVID, Deepfake, climate, … + bird flu WHO say no change in risk for bird flu from previous years. Not official. Not a clock. Not a doomsday. Not a time. A metaphor but for what? Means nothing. For action we need focus on positives and positive framing. Used to mean more. Just a graphic. Not 1 second closer to global warming or bird flu. Set it to midnight? Nothing happens.

TEXT ON GRAPHIC Shoots for future growth: Assad's regime overthrown, and prisoners freed. Lets Syria reinvent itself and refugees return. Gaza Strip ceasefire holds and refugees return to Gaza city. Solar panel prices fell almost 10-fold in a decade Battery prices fell 33-fold since 1991 opening door to electric cars and shorthaul electric plane flights. - China's CO2 emissions peaked - IPBES pledges for 30% of land inland waters, coast and deep sea managed sustainably by 2030 - Huge advances in vaccines and therapeutics - Great green wall to reverse desertification south of the Sahara Desert well underway. - Iberian lynx makes remarkable comeback and many other conservation successes. - Deforestation rates falling in Brazil under Lula ...

BLOG: The "Doomsday clock" is not really a clock
— no longer much about nukes
— almost no positive framing which psychologists say drives action
— suggested positive version: "shoots for future growth"
READ HERE: robertinventor.substack.com/p/positive-f...

I sell books and am continually frustrated and the frequency that white matte paper is chosen for dust jackets. Could anything possibly be more fragile? I get inventory from publishers that looks grungy right out of the box. The only thing worse IMO is black matte paper that shows every fingerprint.

Seeing the Light in the darkest of times is a gift
Being the Light is a challenge

I see it!

a meme top panel is an image of bugs bunny dressed as a maestro conducting an orchestra, and is labelled "Writers and artists cooking up amazing ideas, excited to create later" as he raises his hand, with a serious, focused, passionate expression bottom panel is bugs bunny asleep in a desk chair in front of a computer on a desk and is labelled as "writers and artists when it's time to create"

I can't wait to sit and write/draw and—zzzzzzzzzzzzz

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...