Werring Worlds

11-19

• Created an account on The Art of Memory Forum
• Made a Lukasa board to encode all of Latin grammar
• Slowly working my way through the Rainieri-Dowling Method
• Printed Passport Photos
• Organized Anki Decks
• Updated Dictionary with definition of ‘Chyle’.
• Worked on modernizing ‘The Art of Physic..’

11-15

• Took passport photos.
• Watching recording of Humoral Medicine class I missed & taking notes.
• Outling a possible sleep aid tincture blend.
• Drafted first three images for peg system.

11-14

• Filled out two passport forms to print next week.
• Planning the art for my peg system for memory work.
• Ladino class
• Flashcard & Vocab Update in Anki

Elections sucked my soul and left me unable to get anything done for two weeks. I won’t apologize. But now that I’m back to it. Let’s get going!

11-04

• Popped all the keycaps off the keyboard and cleaned it.
• Lot’s of random tasks: Gave Zephyr a bath, cleaned room etc.
• Updating Calibre and adding books to old ereader.

11-01

• Took Zephyr to the woods this morning for a short hike.
• Edited and published ‘Deep Social Ecology | Part 1’
• Started reading: ‘Illuminations: Essays and Reflections’ by Walter Benjamin

10-30

• Class: ‘Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History’
• Read: The Soteriological Machine (Reading Benjamin’s Theses I & II)
• Bokmarking: Reading Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Concept of History (Contents)
• Picked up some plexiglass for our refurbed kitchen table.
• Read: ‘Self-Realization Beyond the Human: Arne Næss and Norwegian Deep Ecology’
• Class: Traditional Herbal Energetics in Humoral Medicine

10-29

• Registered for ‘Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History’ from the Institute for Social Ecology.
• Modernized 5 pages of ‘The art of physick made plain & easie’
• Put in a Sportula request for ‘Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place’

Might not be able to update the log tomorrow. I have two classes that may take up much of my day: ‘Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History’ & ‘Traditional Herbal Energetics in Humoral Medicine’

10-28

• Sent in a bunch of old essays to get my certificate from my Havurah.
• Volunteered for two different projects coming up.
• Zoom class later tonight.
• Attempted to fix HTTPS on the site but apparently it costs extra. Thanks a lot Namecheap.

Went ahead and subscribed to Papers App. Uploaded new readings.

• Updated ISE on social media stats.
• Added meetings to calendar.
• Did a bit of research prep for meeting tonight.

This week is going to be a storm of chaos. I may not have a full log this week. Over the weekend I had several Zoom meetings, helped install flooring etc.

10-02

• Catherine Project Zoom
• Lots of emails
• Late night Zoom later
• Finished reading ‘Julius Caesar’ by Shakespeare.

Today and tomorrow are filled with Zoom meetings. Once I come up for air on Monday, I’ll have more to share.

10-24

• Ladino Class from Oxford
• Looking on Internet Archive for old herbals

Reading Act V: ‘Julius Caesar’ by Shakespeare for class with The Catherine Project

10-23

• Reading Act II: ‘Julius Caesar’ by Shakespeare for class with The Catherine Project
• Prepped SVARA binder for Talmud study. Added a crafty pocket to hold script (cursive, Rashi etc.) references.
• Random Tasks: Laundry, Organize book stacks, floors etc.
• First Moon Colony: A star physicist teaches us how to read the Torah, book by book. First up: Genesis.

I’m pretty much taking today off to catch up on tasks I’ve been putting off. Had some shredded veggies cooked in a rice wrapper this morning with vegan bacon. Checked the garden and found a new pepper plant with a pepper on it?! Weather’s weird and so are the plants.

10-22

• Took the dogs to the woods for a walk.
• Modernized 5 more pages of ‘The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie’
• Reading Act II: ‘Julius Caesar’ by Shakespeare for class with The Catherine Project

10-21

• 1,048 words done on ‘Deep Social Ecology | Part 1’ draft
• Set up Mastodon account for the Institute for Social Ecology
• Read: anarchy and individualism?
• Line editing for Harbinger Journal
• Read: ‘Ecocentrism: The Responsive Chord’
• Started testing out Papers app as a citation / references manager
• Added Incremental Writing on Asklepion Sanctuaries
• Reading & Annotating: ‘Julius Caesar’ by Shakespeare for class with The Catherine Project

10-02

• Took the dogs to the woods this morning.
• Modernized several more pages the ‘The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie’

10-17

• Ladino Class this morning
• Digitized notes
• Created Flashcards
• Printed out Rashi script reference
• Backing up my research database resulted in it erasing. >_< Might have to rebuild it all later.
• Read part of ‘A Simplified Guide to Reading and Writing Ladino in Rashi and Solitreo’

10-16

• Added new graphic to Humoral Medicine page
• Reading ‘Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience’
• Emailed Teacher
• Added notes on ‘Optimal States’ to evergreen notes
• Read:Understanding the roots of our tradition: Researching the origins of Western Herbal Medicine
• Read: Re-create the conditions and actually make recipes!

10-15

• Picked up straw and covered the strawberry patch before the deep freeze.
• Read: ‘EVAGRIUS the MONK’ a work on ascetic practice
• Watched: ‘Chef’s Table: Noodles’ on Netflix

10-14

• Spent the morning doing a last minute harvest before the frost.
• Started building a digital archive of herbal research
• Backing up Lattics and Remnote data
• Installing Raven Reader (RSS)

10-11

• Added new sources to ‘Rewriting The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie’
• Added some background on the 4 elements to ‘Humoral Medicine’
• Read Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked
• Converted stories ‘Spill’ and ‘Vigilant’ by Cory Doctorow into PDF’s to read later.
• Read a bit about the OpenBook project

10-08

“The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

• Added more text to ‘The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie’
• Added to Humoral Medicine page
• Updated & Built Dictionary page
• Added Download page
• Added disclaimers
• Updated Rewriting The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie page
• Updated Index
• Added Page Intro. To Land based Kinship
• Wrote part of the draft to Deep Social Ecology | Part 1
• Started Reading: Catherine Project’s Commonplace Journal
• Sent articles to tablet to read: ‘Deepness of Questions’ (1982) by Arne Naess & ‘Notes on the Methodology of Normative Systems’ (1977) by Arne Naess

10-03

‘For two and a half millennia, poor creatures will learn to forget how to step into the river. For two and a half millennia, poor creatures will learn to step only into their own ideas. Will these poor creatures survive all this unlearning? Will the river survive all this forgetting?’
— Max Cafard

• Started Reading ‘Traditional Western Herbalism and Pulse Evaluation’ by Matthew Wood, Francis Bonaldo, and Phyllis Light
• Updated the Onomasticon
• Watched a recording on Hasidism & Neo-Hasidism
• Watered garden & greenhouse, harvested veggies
• Added new page Traditional Western Herbalism Study Path

10-02

• Installed AutoText for faster coding & writing
• Created a mnemonic graphic for Queen Anne’s Lace inspired by medieval memory techniques
• Added more to the outline for the class on reconnecting to landscapes
• Added new page Rewriting The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie
• Added more text to ‘The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie’
• Read an interview of Teagan White
• Gathered some journal articles together to read up on Humoral Medicine

10-01

• Worked on modernizing a few pages of the text ‘The art of physick made plain & easie by the learned D. Fambresarius’
• Added a new page to the site Modernized Herbals
• Added new page to the site The Art of Physick Made Plain & Easie
• Read: Naming herbs in a pre-Linnaean culture
• Read: Simples! Plants and Fertility Control in the Ancient Mediterranean
• Drafted an experimental hybrid deep/social ecology based on Arne Naess’ Normative Systems and Deep Questions

10-29

• Modernized several pages of ‘The Art of Physick…’
• Put in a request for ‘Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place’ to The Sportula
• Registered for class: ‘Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History’ from The Institute for Social Ecology

If I don’t post anything to the log tomorrow it’s because I’m swamped. I’ve got two classes tomorrow: ‘Traditional Herbal Energetics in Humoral Medicine’ & ‘Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History’.

09-30

• Reading: ‘Between Social Ecology and Deep Ecology: Gary Snyder’s Ecological Philosophy’ by Paul Massersmith-Glavin
• Created a new page Reads
• Reading about fractals, narratives, and networks
• Outlining a class on reconnecting to landscapes
• Drafted part of a piece on fractals

‘One of the most interesting things that has ever happened in the world was the Western discovery that history is arbitrary and that
societies are human, and not divine, or natural creations – that we
actually have the capacity of making choices in regard to our social
systems.’ – Gary Snyder

09-27

Asked a few questions about the Nua Celtic manifesto. I find it interesting and really informative in a lot of ways but I don’t know enough about it’s framework ‘conviviality’ to dive deeper. I’m hoping to read up on it soon and get some incremental writing done on it for the site. I’ve also been finally learning one of my heritage languages on Duolingo and building out flashcards for vocab and sentences on Anki.