In a Northeast Corner

thriving on serendipities, plants, and coffee

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Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don’t sleep like eyes. Those who live by the sea examine the driftwood and glass balls that float from foreign ships. They let scores of invisible imps loose out of found bottles. In a scoop of salt water, they revive the dead blobs that have been beached in storms and tides: fins, whiskers, and gills unfold; mouths, eyes, and colors bloom and spread. Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.

Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men, “The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains” (via intracoastal-wanderings)

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dis is good

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All I know is that I'm grateful #tiosn (at The Institute of Sustainable Nutrition)

[underthemasque-deactivated20171]

[newyorker]

Read Claudia Roth Pierpont’s 2003 story on Katharine Hepburn, unlocked as part of our collection of New Yorker classics about leading ladies.

Apart from cinema’s eternal little girls—like Lillian Gish or Mary Pickford—Hepburn was probably the least sexual beauty ever to become a movie star. The lack of femme fatality may be ascribed to her uncommon self-possession: the stubborn vertical bracing of that pratfall also kept her from assuming the conventionally vulnerable (or predatory) female sexual postures. This is the Hepburn women still want their daughters to watch.

Hepburn in New York City, March 2, 1955. Photograph by Richard Avedon.

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Happy birthday little buddy. We did it

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Winter hike yesterday with joey babe (at McCann Farm Trails)

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3:34 PM (at McCann Farm Trails)

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Awesome things I do in class #tiosn #honeycomb (at The Institute of Sustainable Nutrition)

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Took a bit of trial and error but finally produced some cinnamon vanilla bean autumnolive jam

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Girl at the farm picking the weeds. #purslane #appleorchard #wildfood #omega3s (at Wright's Orchard)

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The last beauties of summer's efforts. About to be dehydrated

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The final product of our firecider making session this weekend at the institute. Nothing makes me happier than all that beautiful plant medicine goodness

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The views lately 👌the #northeast and #newengland wins

[rochelledelaroche]

Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.

Haruki Murakami (via rochelledelaroche)

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[grannywasjungonce]

'Zitkala-Ša, a Yankton Sioux Native American woman who made her mark as a champion of Native American rights and as an accomplished author and musician. She and her husband, Raymond Bonnin, founded the National Council of American Indians in 1926 to advocate for full citizenship rights for Native Americans.’