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A Season of Abundance and Doom
🍅August brings with it summer abundance, and the old holidays of Lughnasa and Lammas celebrating the first fruits of the harvest season. In my house, that's tomatoes, chiles, eggplant, basil, cukes, and a few zucchini, plus some new everbearing strawberries doing...
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A Season of Abundance and Doom
🍅August brings with it summer abundance, and the old holidays of Lughnasa and Lammas celebrating the first fruits of the harvest season. In my house, that's tomatoes, chiles, eggplant, basil, cukes, and a few zucchini, plus some new everbearing strawberries doing...
How to (Re)Build Your City for $10/Gal Gas
Or $8/gal or $15/gal or whatever’s three times what you’re used to paying. What can we do in places built around driving everywhere with fuel that’s suddenly unaffordable? Plenty:Insulate buildings - roofs, walls, windows, doors, floors. Behold the power of...
A Tiny Daily Vacation
Everybody’s worried What’s on your mind today? Everybody’s got a worry or six - what’s your top one today? Or maybe your top seven? Who couldn’t use a refuge, a place to find a respite from the incessant mayhem of the world? We’ve all got that in common, that we’re...
Cryptid Guilt
This page may include affiliate links. Buying through them adds *no* additional cost to your purchase, supports "30% Wild," and supports independent bookstores via Bookshop.org. What a deal! Thanks so much for your support!Guilt How about this: we’re afraid of...
Is Every Impossible Animal a Hoax?
Hoaxes You knew this was coming: The Hoax. There’s people who genuinely think they saw an Impossible Scary Animal and are simply mistaken, which could happen to anyone. Anyone can make a mistake. But what about people who *deliberately* mislead others? Not just...
Awe and Impossible Animals
Awe Maybe we see Impossible Scary Animals because we need nature to be bigger, badder, and wilder than it is, at least the nature around us. Maybe we crave awe. The year 2024 gifted the US with both a total solar eclipse and multiple dazzling displays of the aurora...
Your Impossible Brain
How many sightings of Impossible Scary Animals are exactly this: seeing an animal or a human-like shape in a totally unrelated object? We Want to Believe Do we simply want to believe? That there’s more out there, that the wilderness is still untamed and closer than...
Possible Perception or Impossible Reality?
Have you ever something unsettling happen in the woods that you couldn’t explain? Well - have you? If I ask you this question, how would you answer, and what question are you answering?Most of my guests have understood it as being about the test of real situations...
The Coyote of Resilience
Never bet against coyotes Never bet against Coyote, the trickster and sometimes god in the stories of various Native nations of North America. He’s both an irritating trickster and admired for his creative anarchic energy. Sometimes the hero. Sometimes chaos, the...
Our Frenemy the Bear
Nature is our frenemy We love nature, when it’s butterflies and sunsets, when it’s soothing waves or rain, when we’re hugging a tree. But we hate or fear nature, too, when it’s wildfires, hurricanes, or simply a swarm of mosquitoes. This isn’t new. You can look...