Spent many hours in the garden today, weeding my strawberry patch, planting onions sets and watering my garlic. Every time I go to work on my veggie patch, I discover a new reason why I love gardening. Today I was reflecting on how growing plants requires me to be radically hopeful and to trust that there will be a tomorrow, one that I care about and one I want to make better. At the same time, gardening teaches resilience and humility. Not everything will work out, not every seed will sprout. But then we gardeners don't just quit - we and our plants just try again next year

It's a mix of total commitment and unconditional love - but also the ability to let go, to not become overly attached and accept that you can't control everything.

#introduction
I'm murph, long time Linux user (started with #Slackware) #bicycle and #motorcycle rider, serial #HOPE conference attender and presenter, #boardgame aficionado. Long time #fediverse denizen going back to the #identi.ca era. Constructive criticism always welcome.

I love it: @renanbernardo.com's adorable #solarpunk story about a dogwalker in a future flooded Rio is rocking the charts!

Grab it while it's free then preorder the Bright Green Futures anthology (releases Earth Day)!
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I posted a blog about imagining the futures we want (and need) in order to create them. Plus, the story behind my #solarpunk Threads stories, which are set in the future I desire.

#Hope (the radical kind) you'll take a look!

The blog includes some fun tidbits and a bonus at the end.

I mention @sarenaulibarri @susankayequinn and the 2016 workshop I offered with Starhawk.

https://brightflame.com/bright-green-futures/

Check out @renanbernardo.com's lovely #solarpunk story of a dog walker in a future flooded Rio FREE... then preorder the Bright Green Futures anthology!

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Anthology: https://lnk.to/BGF24website

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#hopepunk #lgbtq #stories #climatechange #ecofiction #sustainability #dogs #bookstadon #climatefiction #queerbooks #ecopunk #hope

Seems like a good day to remind folks of Bill Moyer's 4 Kinds of Activists & 8 Stages of a Movement... and the role that hopeful #climatefiction can fill in the fight.

Details in the pod: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-7-climate-fiction-in-the-larger

From: April
by Alicia Ostriker

“The optimists among us
taking heart because it is spring
skip along
attending their meetings
signing their e-mail petitions
marching with their satiric signs
singing their we shall overcome songs
posting their pungent twitters and blogs
believing in a better world
for no good reason
I envy them
said the old woman…”

Remember those weeks of the COVID shutdown when we all went home & waved at our neighbors from afar & kids drove by honking birthday wishes to other isolated schoolmates & we went out for walks and viewed murals & messages of #hope drawn in colored chalk by neighborhood kids & families would stand outside the picture window to visit grandma & neighbors would turn up the music to dance socially-distanced on the sidewalk & death, being so close at hand, made us briefly #humble & #appreciative?

The Hands Off protests yesterday, which were (let's not mince the truth here) antifascist and pro-democracy rallies, have lifted my spirits in a way that has made me feel that we actually have more options available than we realize. And not just on the political front, but also on the personal front. We must not get in the habit of being doormats to this regime. Or, for that matter, to the subtly sinister parasites in life.

Exactly all of this I can't stress enough how not in the slightest joking I am when I say that I believe the world would be a better place if people exposing themselves to the many pessimistic, if not outright nihilistic shows permeating entertainment in the past few decades had been watching Doctor Who instead...

Try to be nice but always be kind

https://werd.social/@ben/114287004161668387 @ben #PopCulture #DoctorWho #hope #humanity

Some inspiration for your timeline

Art by @thelatestkate

For the launch of the Bright Green Futures #solarpunk anthology (Earth Day!) each author picked a #giveaway item: @renanbernardo.com's seed-paper notebooks are so cool!

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Frae the bud leaves are breakin
Trees are dauncin, branches sway
Blossoms in the wind are blawin
Spring has come tae flooer the day…

—Donald Smith, “Scotlan’s Spring”
via the Scottish Poetry Library

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotlans-spring/

If you have never watched this, you need to hear its words.

If you have, trust this is the time to hear it again.

It hits hard that this was December 31st 2016 but that is also part of the message.

#hope

https://youtu.be/LCenwgheIBs?feature=shared

That's the dadgum truth, right there.

The happiest people in the fediverse are the ones who are watching their seeds sprout. Following #gardening has been a blessing to my timeline.
#springtime #joy #hope

Artists of all kinds are part of the #resistance. There's a reason he's trying to take over the arts.

I think this should be the anthem of our times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bmhcvPwTI

"I will not hate, and I will not fear. In our darkest hour, #hope lingers here."

"My country, when justice is gone, in our darkest hour, #hope lingers here."

This is everything they are afraid of -- hope, refusal to hate, and joyful singing.

Let freedom, and hope, ring!

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