"Resistance can take many forms."

Some Nice Things. . .

Now I have my laptop back, I will do some catch-up.

First, let me say, I got to the post office yesterday and mailed off all the remaining calendars. Media mail--they should arrive within a week.
Please let me know if you don't get yours--I have the PO tracking numbers.

Marz texted this morning from Colorado--after driving two full days, she's four hours from Albuquerque. The goat farmer will pick her up there, and then it's another four hours to the farm--off the grid in the hills.

I'm eager to get her report on––among other things-–what it's like to live with composting toilets.
One of my personal successes this year is making and using cloth toilet wipes (for pee). I use them like paper towels too, to wipe up spills.
"Making" them involves cutting up some old T-shirts or other soft cloth. No need to hem them or anything.
 I wash them in the washing machine on hot. Easy.

Speaking of personal favorites--people turned a Metro Bus Stop into a Metro Library at the George Floyd Memorial Site (links to NYT article). It's tended to--I spent a few minutes straightening the shelves.

Many stuffed animals pay their respects:

 
A couple weeks ago, I biked past this quartet in the park on my way to work, about 10 a.m.:

For Crow: Marz and girlette Tanya Barry with crow sculptures at Big Stone Mini-Golf:

 
Following Toy Photography on Instagram, I found this great photo--do you recognize the bike (if not, I'll say in the comments)––by an artist of miniatures, instagram.com/tanaka_tatsuya:

These Dream Pet reindeer (1960s, made in Japan) donated to the thrift store are going to be part of the girlettes' Christmas card this year. We are patiently waiting for it to snow...

"Resistance can take many forms...

The goats always need milking. Things always, always need doing with hands, with bodies, in the physical realm."

--from Elisa Albert's introduction  to The Farm in the Green Mountains, Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (1949, NYRB classics 2017).

AH-Z and her family were refugees from Nazi Germany--she wrote this memoir of being first-time farmers (in Vermont) after the war.

One of my intentions for this winter's resistance: SEND PAPER MAIL. The mailbox outside DreamHaven Books briefly carried this message last month:

Write to me?