The Long Now Foundation has a compelling Youtube channel. Many thoughtful pieces putting today into a larger context. www.youtube.com/longnow #LongNow #TemporalBandwidth

Design books Noguchi's Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture by Marc Treib #Booksky #books #designs #designbooks #landscape

1st lines Wilderness woven into the days around us. Like a line wanderer, again and again, beyond the message towers, a big white bird's right wing rustles in. Paul Celan tr by Jason Kavettt 1966 #1stlines #poetry #translation #Celan

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Design books Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics Hardcover by Allen S. Weiss #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #Japan #gardens

1st lines THOSE WHO DO NOT DIE Between the four bare, cold walls you and I look at one another in silence. There is no need for words. You hear autumn shedding leaves, withdrawing the lifeblood To Huu, translated from the French by Gansel into English by Schwartz #1stlines #poetry #translation

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Sad to see Foe leave Canada Reads. Going out to buy a copy! www.cbc.ca/books/canada... @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social #CanadaReads #books

This year's Canada Reads is getting started. Always a lot of fun. @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/books/canada... #Booksky #books #Canada #CanadaReads

Design books Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces Paperback by Grant Reid #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #landscape #drawing

1st lines FRAGILE PATHS Fragile is the earth above the springs: no tree should be felled, no root pulled up. The springs might dry up. How many trees are felled, how many roots pulled up within us? Reiner Kunze tr by Mireille Gansel tr by Ros Schwartz #1stlines #translation

1st lines Chemin fragile fragile est la terre au-dessus des sources: aucun arbe ne doit etre abattu, aucune racine arrachée les sources pourraient tarir combien d'arbres sont abattus, combien de racines arrachées en nour Reiner Kunze tr by Mireille Gansel #1stlines #poetry #translation #German

1st lines SENSIBLE WEGE (original) Sensibel ist die erde über den quellen: kein baum darf gefallt, keine wurzel gerodet werden Die quellen konnten versiegen Wie viele baume werden gefallt, wie viele wurzeln gerodet in uns By Reiner Kunze #1stlines #poetry #German

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Reflection and Perspective in Quiet Noise The original essay published in 2013, embroidered with current thoughts on a piece of art I live with. substack.com/home/post/p-... #Canada #Vancouver #art #photography #poetry

Design books Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape Paperback by Susan Herrington #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #lanscape #Vancouver

1st lines I roamed about in the mountains I roamed about on the beaches. I would kill even those gathering grasses to feed themselves, and I would feed themselves on them. ... By Hiraga Etenoa in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi 1932 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

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Some unusual trees by Waqas Younas thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-unusu... #trees

Just starting to read Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel translated by Ros Schwartz. Here is a review by Scott Manley Hadley that gives some context. triumphofthenow.com/2017/12/16/t... #translation #transhumance

Nice visual introduction to category theory. Category theory is the most general way of putting things in context. abuseofnotation.github.io/category-the... #math #categorytheory #visualization

Design books Mien Ruys: The Mother of Modernist Gardens Hardcover by Julia Crawford #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #Dutch #gardens

Design books Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment Hardcover by Grady Hillhouse #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #engineering #urban

1st lines Although I heard From the outset that a meeting Can only mean to part, I gave myself to love for you Unconscious of the coming dawn hajime yori/au wa wakareto/kiki nagara aktsuki shirade/hito o koikeri Fujiwara Teika tr Brower and Miner circa 1232 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #waka #love

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Hako ... Box ... Container This looks like a lovely exhibition, and I will be in Paris while it is on. ogata.com/paris/galeri... #Paris #Japan #hako

For a weekend, or couple of weekends, cycling project. Trees are a big part of Vancouver culture and the city's way of being. J.B. MacKinnon's Vancouver Tree Tour via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #trees

Good to see some coverage of poetry from The Tyee. I begin most days and end most days reading poetry. Eight New Canadian Poetry Collections to Celebrate National Poetry Month via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Presents/202... #Canada #BC #poetry

1st lines At a parting of pure white sleeves, dew falls and the autumn wind blows in a colour that soaks my soul. shirotae no / sode no wakare ni / tsuyu ochite / mi ni shimu iro no / akikaze zo fuku By Fujiwara Teika tr by Paul Atkins circa 1200 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #waka

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Providing affordable, sustainable #housing isn't rocket science: it just requires that housing be treated not as a commodity but as a public good: theconversation.com/europe-needs...

After 10+ years of #VisionZero one thing is clear: some long-standing practices are holding us back. Our new blog breaks down the Top 10 things to STOP doing to advance safe streets for all. Read more: visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-thing...

Trees are an important part of the fabric and culture of Vancouver. The city needs to do better at protecting them. No building should be taller than the trees around it. They Cut Down 'Grandpapa' by J.B. MacKinnon via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026... #BC #Vancouver #trees

Design books Laws of Seeing by Wolfgang Metzger direct.mit.edu/books/monogr... #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #perception #Gestalt

1st lines I am a mountain God. My wedded wife, She of the Shiny Fur- so much did I respect her that I did not even allow her to fetch water 0r even kindle a fire. We lived on and on, ... By Hiraga Etenoa in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi 1932 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

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Keel Sand: Notes from Hidden Beach Vancouver A collaboration with Gregory Ronczewski. Mediations on a wreck that came in and out of view as the tide shifted the sand. Now lost to seawall construction. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/keel-sand #poetry #haiku #haibun #Vancouver #sand #wreck

Phenomenology of Perception Paperback by Maurice Merleau-Ponty translated by Donald Landes #Booksky #design #books #designbooks #philosophy #phenomenology #perception

1st lines When I said this the God of the Game remained silent for a time. Then he spoke these words When my kinsfolk the deer go to pay visits to the humans the humans say ... By Hiraga Etenoa in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi 1932 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

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Design books The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception: Classic Edition Paperback by James J. Gibson #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #perception

Trump's comments on a civilization dying' sound like genocide and war crimes. #US #Iran #Trump #genocide #warcrimes

1st lines When the drinking feast had reached its mid-point I stood up and told the tale of how I had been moved to pity when famine broke out in the land of the humans, ... By Chiri Yukie in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi 1936 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

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Design books The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Paperback by Tim Ingold #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #perception

Design books Pattern Design Paperback by Lewis F. Day #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #patterns

1st lines My elder sister raised me, and we lived on. She raised me with a little toy bow and. little toy arrows, and we lived on. Turning around toward the head of the fireplace, ... By Hirame Karepia in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi 1936 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

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1st lines Doing nothing but needlework, I remained with my eyes focused on a single spot, and this is the way I continued to live on and on uneventfully. By Hiraga Etenoa in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions. #Booksky #2books #translation #poetry