Back Once More

It's been a while. I’ve been busy with another blog as well as starting a new community.

And suddenly, for complicated reasons, I am done with the other blog.

And, honestly, I didn't start right back on this one.  Part of what was going on is feeling a bit burnt from the pace that I had set for myself on the other blog.   I was cranking out posts, many of which I was soliciting rather than writing, three times a week.   I kept hearing from people that we should have been posting less often.   But for me the hard part wasn't the frequency, it was that I was mostly doing it by myself.

Still, in many ways I'm sorry to see it go.  But this does give me time to return to this blog.

The community I’m in has a bit of a focus on urban agriculture.   And right now, February, there isn't much happening in that respect.  We did have a wild day earlier this week when the temperature was suddenly in the mid-seventies.   Global weirding at work, but we took advantage of it to get some needed work done outdoors.

Otherwise I am doing a lot of reading.   Science stuff mostly.   Soil science, geology, mycology, and nutrition are big for me right now, as I wait for the growing season to arrive. Soil science is particularly interesting to me because it combines chemistry, biology, and geology, is closely connected to my love of compost and composting, and the soil is the absolute foundation for plant life.

So, as I return to this blog, I plan to do a bunch of writing about what I am reading as well as what I am thinking about.  And these days much of it is about science.  Science and social change and, of course, community.   So get ready for some posts about science, starting with soil science.

Quote of the day: “Math and science originally come from the goddess traditions of ancient Egypt.  … Ma’at was the Goddess of truth, justice and divine wisdom who brought the universe into order from chaos at the beginning of creation.  Her name is the root of the word ‘mathematics’.” - Mara Penfil and Fern Katz