Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

...lding techniques. These things made the book worthwhile for me. The book itself is interesting as an object. It’s smallish, and pretty. Inside, the illustrations are Japanese-cute line drawings. It doesn’t look like any cleaning or organization book I’ve ever seen, and that is what makes it special. Kondo understands that tidying is a spiritual activity, not an organizational activity. The same week we got this book, we also had a library book out...

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077 Radical Mycology

Our guest this week is Peter McCoy. Peter is a self-taught mycologist with 15 years of accumulated study and experience, Peter is an original founder of Radical Mycology, a grassroots organization and movement that teaches the skills needed to work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal, societal, and ecological resilience. Peter is the lead cultivation expert for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project and Open Source Ecology and the primary author...

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Organize Those Drip Irrigation Parts!

...n ordered toolbox full of irrigation parts. Now this could be one of those self-aggrandizing homesteady posts were it not for the fact that it took me fifteen years to organize my drip irrigation parts. I spent those previous years fishing for parts in a partially collapsed cardboard box. Take my advice: if you own a house, are an avid gardener and use some kind of timed irrigation, thou shalt organize all those parts. Maintaining an irrigation sy...

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Weekend Links: We’ve Gone Crazy!

...New short film by photographer Gerco de Ruijter explores “grid correction” roads: https://t.co/T0f42YDiVq pic.twitter.com/RhAneDgSXj — Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) April 18, 2016 Self-driving cars might be “a coming congestion disaster”: https://t.co/LrJUpmLOFz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 18, 2016...

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A Lecture on the Connection Between Cats and Grain

...destination is a world in which we spend all our hours spinning around in self driving cars while watching, on our virtual reality glasses, an endlessly looped 3D version of Nyan Cat. Islam tells a much more succinct and, I think, more accurate version of cat domestication. An Islamic legend holds that Noah’s ark was overrun with mice and rats. God instructed Noah to pet the nostril of a lion, whereupon the lion sneezed out two house cats. Noah’s...

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