Sloth and Manatee

I was recently reminded of this by a friend who posted a page from Frog and Toad:

If you read this funny little letter chances are that you tend toward being the type of person who makes stuff, or nurtures stuff, or brings things or people along, basically, a gardener.

Gardeners are in a lot of pain currently, because the things that are our whole reason for being are under attack pretty much every hour or so. It is much easier to knock down the sand castle than it is to build it.

This can feel futile, and makes me wonder about forms of protection. In the natural world, protection happens by way of, say, hiding, or camouflage, or running away. Or being poisonous or spiny or mean.

But there’s another form of protection, which is proliferation. This is where I think we find ourselves. Teaching, making, reaching out, distributing, extending oneself, extending a kindness, writing something, drawing something, dancing something, sharing something, these are proliferation. That happens outside of the consciousness of the destroyers. A destroyer can’t destroy what it does not see. Over time proliferation takes over, the moss overgrows the rubble, and things thrive again.

Proliferation doesn’t always have to be published. Putting the music into the air is proliferation. Taking the walk and beholding the flying birds and forming clouds is proliferation. Being quiet. Saying hello. Putting pen to paper for no one but yourself. It is all real and it all alters reality everywhere.

It is very special that you try.

Sloth and Manatee Page

Brainwaves

Best of Brainwaves Volume One: The Fountain of Stuff

Best of Brainwaves Volume Two: Mom, Dad, I'm a Cat

License Cartoons from CartoonStock

Art!

I would ike you to see Ramiro’s design for an ice cream sandwich. That white part in the middle is “Sam’s Crem” which is I am told a special ice cream flavor never before tasted by anyone

Print Shop

BunnyFrogCatSnake

The friends are helping promote Richmond Art Center’s Spring Family Day on April 25th - come out if you’re in the Bay!

Things of the Week

The Strandbeest dude is still at it:

Little game where you try to list as many animals as you can, until you run out of time (you get a few seconds added for each entry you make) - gets you thinking about how dang many things there are out there cruising around (from Lisa Maria Marquis’ excellent The Future is Like Pie)

Shiny GIF goodness, sound on

Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.

May you garden something, may someone garden something for you, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy