Turn your backs to the cold wind

[sovay]

What is going on is that I am in a spectacularly bad way, physically, even for me, and the doctor to whom I would normally have taken my problems is out of the office for another week yet and I am not having a great deal of success with their covering team; hence I have not been much present lately and spent the whole of last night lying on a couch, re-reading assorted Dick Francis and James Clavell's King Rat (1962) for the first time in decades. On the other hand, my mother has hatched all nine of her monarchs successfully and the next round of caterpillars is already rippling through the milkweed. The youngest of this set must be Random by age and coloration, but also because it remained inside its chrysalis until everyone who had been awaiting its entrance with bated breath was out of the room for a minute and then modestly slipped out and began to dry its wings blamelessly in the sun. I have also been reading Jen Manion's Female Husbands: A Trans History (2021) and it's great. Before this afternoon, I had never heard of the hibakujumoku, the A-bombed trees.

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[asakiyume]

I was noticing a dearth of posts from you. I'm sorry to hear this. I'm glad for the news about the monarchs, though. I took a 1-minute-plus video of one in my yard, drinking clover nectar. They're lovely to watch.

It figures that a gingko would be among the survivors. "That measly one megaton? My kind survives asteroid strikes, bitches!"

[sovay]

I was noticing a dearth of posts from you. I'm sorry to hear this.

Thank you. It's not that I don't think of things! I have just very much not been around except in the three-dimensional sense.

I'm glad for the news about the monarchs, though. I took a 1-minute-plus video of one in my yard, drinking clover nectar. They're lovely to watch.

Nice! We technically have a video of me with one of the monarchs, although it will be a little complicated to get off my mother's phone. I love how their wings moving slowly look like respiration.

It figures that a gingko would be among the survivors. "That measly one megaton? My kind survives asteroid strikes, bitches!"

"Ginkgo from the Permian to the Anthropocene" sounds like the title of something I would definitely read or watch.

[vass]

"Ginkgo from the Permian to the Anthropocene" sounds like the title of something I would definitely read or watch.

I initially interpreted that as a Gingko from the Permian addressing the Anthropocene era at large, and it also sounds like a poem you would write!

I'm very sorry about your health. I hope you have much better health luck soon.

[sovay]

I initially interpreted that as a Gingko from the Permian addressing the Anthropocene era at large, and it also sounds like a poem you would write!

That's a really good interpretation! Now it also sounds like jewelry by elisem.

I'm very sorry about your health. I hope you have much better health luck soon.

Thank you.