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Mike Sowden's avatar

10,000 geek points awarded for opening quote.

"Estivate" is so interesting, thank you. I had no idea it was a thing, yet it makes perfect sense to my experience. I now feel like how I felt after reading Susan Cain's "Quiet" - one of those special Look, That's Me moments.

(I find warm summer months slow me down, put lead in my boots and concrete in my neural pathways. Winter (and cold) is where I feel like I can really *try*, which is why I'm excited about the upcoming Scottish winter. And maybe also explains why living in Costa Rica for a year in 2017, as fabulous as it was, was also a time where I struggled to string two thoughts together. I realised now attuned to non-equatorial latitudes I am, even though I grew up in Cyprus.)

So interesting. I need to think about this more.

>>"what if no amount of digital tech, no matter how deeply embedded, will ever be able to compare to what we can experience if we connect fully with the world we already live in?"

I wonder this too. But if it's true, we're in the fray now, and the only way out is through. I saw a smart suggestion a while back for a digital prompt in the form of an alarm that goes off every hour, a recording of yourself asking "Hey! Where are you?" As in - where are your throughts right now -lost in the past or future, or appreciating the richness of this moment, right now? That feels worth trying.

I had no idea what a chokeberry was until this post. In terms of new wonders per sentence, your writing is excellent value.

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ehme's avatar

Use only straight sided jars. No shoulders. Fill only to the freeze line - which is the narrow line below the jar threads. If you only have shoulder jars they need three inches of space to expand, which is a super waste.

my Mom uses all sorts of recycled jars -peanut butter, jam, vodka - to freeze things in the freezer and they never break. I’ve also never had a jar break!

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