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Ahh, a nice pile of pre-mulch (category: pallet). This pile isn't the final pile. It's the holding pile. Next step is distributing the pieces based on where i'd like them to decompose.

Stuff like managed decomposition really makes me feel like I've got my arm up to the elbow in the circle of life, swishing things around and trying to make something happen lol.

And yes, all my most profound ecological insights come only when I'm *at least* elbow deep in the circle of life.

Which reminds me, I have some goat poop (from @saltphoenix 🥰) compost tea brewing in a bucket and I gotta stir it and distribute it. Swish swishing the circle of life quite literally, in this case 😸

Humans constantly change and even destroy #ecosystems - what happens then? It's called 'novel ecosystems'. "They now exist as self-sustaining systems. These are wild but changed ecosystems. They have passed some critical threshold which means they are unlikely to ever go back to how they were before." #Hawaii has become a laboratory for #ecologists to study such "freakosystems": bbc.com/future/article/2025040

A landscape of green showing large pink multi-branched plants in the foreground, a spiky small hill covered in trees in the mid-ground and a mountainous ridge in the background (Credit: Sean MacDonald)
BBC · This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a warning from the futureAv Matthew Ponsford

A second reflection I wrote after being at the Hands Off demonstrations yesterday, this time an exploration of what it means to be "blessed"--even when an angry Trump supporter yells at you from his car window.

catecheticconverter.com/a-bles

The Catechetic Converter · A Blessed InsultYesterday at the Hands Off demonstrations in downtown Honolulu, I had (at least) two encounters that felt like they might be blessings ...