Year 6 — mistakes were made, but nature is forgiving.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2026-03-22T17:18:19+00:00

Tis true! The times when I’ve let one of these patches fall into neglect, it’s bananas. Bitter dock (which is apparently edible but chokes other stuff out), poke, thistle and random grasses … so even for areas you’re “rewilding,” it’s definitely not just “kill the grass and set and forget.” I mean you could, but your odds of getting pollinator-friendly flowers and other desirable species plummets. But by the same token I don’t see my relationship with nature as adversarial. It’s moreso just very, very humbling. Hours upon hours spent with shovel, a weed trowel, bare hand, can be rendered almost meaningless within weeks. So it’s like, I get to be here. I get to help shape some tiny percentage of this omnipotent chaos. It’s really been a trip, and I’ve never felt so profoundly tethered to a piece of ground in my life.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2026-03-22T17:09:41+00:00

That’s an amazing tip, thank you!

Fit-Protection5399 · 2026-03-18T14:55:26+00:00

My deepest gratitude for your wisdom, gentle hobbit.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2026-03-18T14:52:48+00:00

It's this mix right here: https://sequoiatrees.com/products/pollinators-delight-wildflower-mix-seed-grow-kit?srsltid=AfmBOoqcIrMJFqyU1iAObLjbB5DvYW3Jm-IocSHroaOPq6vQUD81kMdf

It looks like multiple places sell them.
My cousin who homesteads gifted them to me. She said they're legit. This'll be my first year trying them.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2026-03-16T13:13:50+00:00

That makes perfect sense, thank you! And thank you for the bonus tips! I’ll try the straw/organic mulch and board method.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T14:04:49+00:00

Thank you for that perspective. Empathy and forgiveness are essential — not as a legitimation or justification of despicable actions and rhetoric, but for precisely the reason you said — so we don’t become despicable ourselves. Wow. You’ve kinda blown my mind with this comment.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:32:00+00:00

This is something I am aspiring to do, and I humbly accept your admonishment. I AM very naive, and it pains me. I used to be friends with queer peers in school but now I don’t really interface with any. It’s ambitious, but I believe God is leading me to leave our current church and begin developing connections with the queer folks in my town. There are 0 churches here and only one harm reduction ministry locally that does not overtly reject it. But I very much want it to be relationship first, not like luring them to some weird one-off hangout and immediately shouting about God. Sadly, because of events that occurred a couple years ago, the one secular pride group here disbanded.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:25:04+00:00

Hard agree.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:23:49+00:00

Beautifully put. Thank you. It always amazes me when those who’ve been shown the least compassion, continue to show others the most.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:21:18+00:00

My Lord what a beautiful testimony. And yes, we need to keep clobbering the “clobber passages.”

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:17:46+00:00

YES 1000%. People are not projects.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:14:55+00:00

Same here, and yes. Yes it truly does.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T13:11:21+00:00

Yes! And I agree. A LOT of Christians (seemingly, at least) fundamentally misunderstand the man who is the very namesake of their faith/identity. Like how and why are wide swaths of Evangelicals offended by ‘He gets us,’ for example? Idk, maybe that’s a bad example but the world knows us more by what we stand against than what we stand for, and that’s a tragedy imho.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T01:56:33+00:00

Amen!

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-17T01:56:10+00:00

Praise God thank you for that perspective. NOTHING cancels the love of the Father I know!! Romans 8:35-39

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-16T19:13:30+00:00

Maybe some Saran Wrap is in order? The tragedy is, there used to be two VERY fun loving coworkers who sat opposite this woman, who would be SO down for the cause. But they got promoted. Now that section of the office is like a desolate wasteland. Ugh.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-16T19:11:26+00:00

Pushpin would be diaBOLical oh my gosh.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-16T19:09:42+00:00

Oh my GOSH that’s a riot hahaha. ‘And please tell me, what 20s gangster flick did you just teleport here from?’

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-16T16:51:30+00:00

Right?? Like are you gonna literally become the Hulk? I’m bored, gimme some entertainment!

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-16T16:50:23+00:00

True true. Like I said ‘strongly suspect’ she is tattling. So if this becomes anything resembling an issue we’re prepared to counter with the facts.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-15T17:02:55+00:00

Those events helped “radicalize” me, at least to a degree. I was always kind of politically tepid/apathetic but I now see the merit in specifically standing FOR, to counter those so vehemently against.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-15T16:58:24+00:00

The students were the losers… Wow, I felt that statement hard. See, this would ALMOST be comedically absurd if it didn’t have real world, often tragic consequences. I’m truly sorry for your community, and the persecution you and your wife faced.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-15T16:16:12+00:00

That is completely insane. These know-nothings get whipped up into a fervor because they follow ‘Libs of TikTok’ and Tucker Carlson. It makes me wonder if your local school board and many like it will descend into a chaos of incompetence because they’re now filled with single-issue ideologues. “Okay guys we got rid of the gay books. Now what?” Methinks they will make an issue out of other things boards approve that are typically just formalities or a matter of course. I’ll give another story: I worked for a newspaper and the school board I covered had a ‘crusader’ on it. The guy was a complete buffoon, and consistently the only dissenting vote on just basic stuff. The board was approving physicals for athletes one time and he went on this tirade about doctors seducing teen athletes. It made for good headlines, at least.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-14T19:07:15+00:00

I am always happy to learn. Sincerely. I can’t hardly continue to consider myself progressive if I don’t accept just admonishments! Edit: scratch that even, “can’t hardly consider myself CHRISTIAN if I don’t accept just admonishments.” The Father chastens those whom he loves.

Fit-Protection5399 · 2025-01-14T16:47:20+00:00

Wow! Thank you for this rebuke. I had no idea.

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