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Societal decay begins with the erasure of complexity and nuance, and ends with brand loyalty. Your Gucci t-shirt was made in the same sweatshop as the Shein knock off, then marked up $100. The woman working 16 hours a day to afford food for her children isn’t going to see a cent of that good…
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Last night I stood on my balcony and watched the light of a wildfire crest one of the foothills that grace the horizon. This morning I awoke with woodsmoke in my lungs and a haze across the sky. Soon, the sun will turn red. When I go to work later today, I will leave this…
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I missed yesterday’s prompt because of its eyerolling assumption of comfort as king. I needed to sleep on it, consider why it made me groan aloud when I first saw it at 8:30 in the morning on a Tuesday. There is nothing wrong with curling up on the couch, tucked away from the heat of…
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I like to joke that I majored in climate anxiety. An ecology degree has done nothing for my job prospects, and an unquenchable curiosity about how the modern world works does very little to ease any of the existential ennui I live with day after day. In order to cope, I tend to go out…
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I moved out of my parents’ house five years ago. Finally pushed out of the nest despite financial strife from the sheer stress of being packed unendingly into a box with the rest of my family with no escape, not allowed my daily reprieve of the college campus for the exploding pandemic. So in one…
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We moved. See blog post from about a week ago. Our new apartment overlooks open pasture and a wide, shallow lake and features a balcony that you can watch the local prairie dog colony from. Well, if you’re human. If you’re a dog, you can listen to them bark but I don’t think you can…
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I am not alone in my inescapable inundation with the problems plaguing our world. Every day, I lament an earlier time — not that the past was more peaceful or serene, but that concerns were far more local. In the modern age, you’re expected to keep your finger on the pulse of every national scandal,…
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Back in January, I coalesced to my partner and agreed to a pet I never gave much of a thought to keeping: birds. So, in the midst of a brutal cold snap (-10F), we went and acquired two parakeets from Petco. I know nothing about birds, about keeping birds, about bird breeders. I trusted him…
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This is an interesting question. I think that, if 40 hours of our workweek wasn’t dedicated to goofing off as much as possible at work for a paycheck to live, things would still get done. People like being busy, but more than that, people like doing things they think are important. I like my job,…
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My thoughts go towards food, immediately. I grew up with a southern mother, so it’s ingrained into me that being a good host means feeding your guests. Offer drinks. No one who enters my home goes hungry. This goes for my community as well. I’ve been enamored with the idea of food forests since I…
from the pen of icarus blake 