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Gouache painting of long-tailed tits for the upcoming book about my local nature reserve.

Long-tailed tits make stretchy nests from a base of moss and spider silk. On the outside they’re covered in lichen for camouflage and inside are lined with feathers for cosiness!

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Sockeye salmon climbing up a river By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

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Mary Oliver, "August"; from "Devotions"

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Genuinely think we should all just cut back on the things we buy, particularly commodities. Yes ideally we would all grow on own food, make our own clothes, build our own homes, etc. but a lot of us simply aren’t at that point and I think a stepping stone for that is simply buying less things we don’t need. I’m not saying you can never have a venti mocha latte or buy a new candle again. Just maybe we should try to break away from our ingrained and insatiable consumerist impulses and start doing less of that so that we, both as individuals and as a society, can eventually get to the point where can outright stop purchasing commodities especially those created from exploited labor etc. We have to break ourselves of our consumerist behaviors and mindsets if we can ever hope to destroy capitalism and build something better. And in fact buying less things feeding the capitalist system plants the seeds of revolution and is itself an act of resistance. I know that sentiment might sound silly but I mean hell that’s why boycotts work.