i’m trying a new thing called activities

“activities” is where you do different things like play an instrument or plant a garden

tell me more

i’ve said too much already

Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren't spicy???

Regular pine needles are regular

Not by rosemary standards

...Have you eaten pine needles?

We've been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I've eaten pine needles or not

I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume

Of course I've eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best

Are they...

spicy?

You know, I'd love to tell you but I'm pretty unclear about what marks the difference between "spice" and "strong-tasting plant that isn't considered a spice"

I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out

Ok but it only counts if they're PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree

I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see

Please Don't Do That

Needle-Like Leaf Roulette

...I'll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.

I can try very hard not to

Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don't have the sheath thing

It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves

Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life

this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again

Cleaning with ADHD all about momentum. Its like being a shark, if you stop moving you just straight up die.

I’m full of rage but in a very chill and nonchalant way

maybe i should

Quite frankly the insistence that any level of indigenous sovereignty is tantamount to an ethnostate just reeks of the “merciless Indian savages” line in the Declaration of Independence

Y’all really think we’re so simple and hateful that for us to hold any level of agency means we’ll want to send every person not Amerindigenous off turtle island

There are graves and sacred sites to be restored, and allowed peace. There are ecosystems to be restored, and returned to careful stewardship. There is work to be done and places that indeed will have to be vacated.

That is not the same as sending every person off on a boat at spear point.

The white terror in not being entitled to stomp wherever you please is pathetic.

Biggest failing of the internet is that in order to be vibing with my friends I have to actually be talking to them. I socialize like a cat I just show affection by sitting next to you. Ily but sometimes I have Nothing to say. Not a damn thing going on in my head

I don't want to "have" a "conversation" I want to peel an orange and share it with you

you’re welcome

why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.