Northern Lights tonight in Wisconsin. #grownostr #plebchain #northernlights #nightsky #nature #keeplookingup #space #Wisconsin #nightsky #universe #astronomy

I'm back with a musical recommendation. Want a fantastic channel to work, cook, write, code, read, conversate, or just relax while playing this in the background? This is also a great thing to play while you drift off to sleep, give it a try! Let me know what you think. give me your own suggestions or thoughts or memories. #grownostr #plebchain #music #ListenToThis #soundtrackforlife #chill

Alright, I'm just going to create an entirely new post just to avoid last night's data loss. First things first, special thanks to @digikomori @Emanuel @PaulTaylor @stoodder and @utxo for their zaps. Thanks to the rest of you for your thoughts, kind comments, likes, etc. I've only just discovered #nostr and my account is still in the newborn stage: I didn't expect this kind of reaction from complete strangers, it makes me realize that not everyone is just out trying to min-max their interactions. I don't have the knowledge, skills, or emotional capital this week to track exactly who did what donation. There is still much for me to learn about the technical capabilities and details of Nostr. This week I'm going to talk to my HR department and staff nurse to see if we can set up some sort of employee support group, and create a better list of resources that our first responder group has access to. What can we offer more than words? Personally and more specifically I'm going to see if my company will be willing to fund some more external programs to help employees get better access to the natural world. I live very close to a public kyack launch and I have a shed. I'm going to offer free storage and active training to coworkers interested in guiding others into discovering the joy and feelings of natural interconnectedness that comes when you get away from normal life and out into the "wild". Long term I'm going to start exploring potentially establishing a non-profit organization that will give people access to equipment and knowledge that normally isn't readily available to people who live paycheck to paycheck. I think I expressed this all so much better in my "lost post", but I won't let that keep me down: Minor setbacks will not deter me. Ok. I'm looking for advice on everything. General thoughts, encouragement, and answers to some more specific questions: I'm located in Wisconsin, any existing programs and resources you're aware of that I should know about? Pitfalls and traps I need to avoid or be conscious of. Non-profits.. should I try to start one... how do you even go about it... other alternatives? Legal advice. The Unknown Unknown: Things I don't even know about that I should be worried about - What am I completely ignorant and unaware of? Encouragement and cheerleading would be welcome, I really want to figure this out and try to make a difference. I can be sad and depressed about things or I can try to make it better. "Do or do not, there is no try" #advice #grownostr #plebchain #firstresponder #bethechange #proactive #firststeps #mentalhealth

I just found this artist tonight, this hits hard. #grownostr #music

Stumbled across this so I thought I'd share it: #grownostr #music #men

I'm a first responder at my workplace: Tonight was emotionally taxing. There was a co-worker who had a maximum-strength panic attack: so bad I thought he was having a heart attack at first. I and some other first responders sat and talked to him for a long long time. The dude was going through some real shit, but I think we helped him a little bit. It feels like there are more and more mental health issues coming to a head this year. Maybe it's partially related to the post covid fallout, maybe it's just the cracks starting to show in our sick society. I don't know all the root causes; I just live here. I have access to a lot of numbers and resources, but I thought it would be nice to hear if any Nostrians have stories, suggestions, or resources they'd like to point to the community at large. I'm going to go try to do something relaxing to unwind before I sleep, thanks in advance to anyone who participates. I will send some zaps out tomorrow to all the helpful, brave, and thoughtful responses. Remember to be kind; Thanks! #grownostr #mentalhealth #firstresponder

Here's one for the road:

Ryan Harby

Ryan Harby

Comics and illustrations by Ryan Harby.

#grownostr #comic #unusualthoughts #books #reading

Can I Keep It? Sometimes a poem just follows you home, like the puppy in the story, and you have to say to your mother mind, Can I keep it? And the better part of you says, If you can take care of it. and the best part says, No boy. Don’t you see it isn’t a dog at all. A puppy? A pet? Don’t you see it is something wild, unnamed, untamed, and free. Feed it, watch it grow, play with it while it stays, but don’t get attached. It will, if its true, if it is worth keeping, go off one day to follow someone else home. And that’s the way it should be, if it is really poetry. #grownostr #poetry #FavoritePoems #philosopherpoet #poemstr I got a little more curious and nostalgic than usual last night so I started dredging up some ancient files that I have on a now abandoned software database and I found this little gem of a poem. I don't have an author or source or any idea about when or where I picked it up, which is fitting I suppose.

I know there are still some people out there like me who love reading a good book. If you like discovering new books and think that reading is a superpower should check out this guy: Matt Karamazov Newsletter:

The Reading Life

The Reading Life

Gain wisdom and strength from the greatest books that have stood the test of time, and learn about brilliant new books before anyone else.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCseV75jkDX4mXFuy8KllGIQ Personal Website:

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@TheMattKaramazov | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

#grownostr #reading #books #knowledge #library

If you don't find this funny, it's because you're "that person". #grownostr #satire #fakeinfomercials

Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau on the value of walking in the woods: "I come out to these solitudes, where the problem of existence is simplified. I get away a mile or two from the town into the stillness and solitude of nature, with rocks, trees, weeds, snow about me. I enter some glade in the woods, perchance, where a few weeds and dry leaves alone lift themselves above the surface of the snow, and it is as if I had come to an open window. I see out and around myself. ... This is what I go out to seek. It is as if I always met in those places some grand, serene, immortal, infinitely encouraging—though invisible—companion, and walked with him." Source: In Wildness is the Preservation of the World

James Clear

3-2-1: The real reason you fail to stick with habits, and the secret to making anything great

3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “It's hard to build momentum if you're dividing your attention.” ​II. “Many people assume they are...

#grownostr #quotes #wildwalks

Continuing my self-imposed tradition of spreading new media to those who haven't stumbled across it yet: here's another that most of you know but if you don't: you're welcome in advance. xkcd

xkcd

Conic Sections

The author has also created some physical books which are pretty fantastic and make great gifts for the curious kids, adults, and other literary creatures in your house. Just because you've never seen your cat read doesn't mean he can't. One thing you can be sure of, he is judging you: Always Judging!

books by Randall Munroe

#grownostr #xkcd #comic #unusualthoughts #books #reading

If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same:. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! #grownostr #poetry #FavoritePoems #philosopherpoet #poemstr

Here's a list of hashtags that I've seen everywhere that I'm curious about so I'm making a note, maybe to help others a bit but mostly: For Science! #nostr - This is the way!

Decentralized publishing for the web

Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables truly censorship-resistant and global value-for-value publishing on the web.

#grownostr - This is what started my nostr exploration. Special thanks to #[0]

The Survival Podcast | Helping you live a better life, if times get tough or even if they don't

Let’s Grow Nostr - The Survival Podcast

So I have been on Nostr about a month and I know it is the future of communications and many forms of commerce. Nostr is not a platform, it is a pr...

#zapathon - Ride the lightning! #plebchain - For the people #plantstr- Green growing things: notice the pattern - Many such cases. #foodstr - Who doesn't like food? #footstr - LMAO I mean I should have known. Such an internet thing! #boobstr - If you didn't see this coming you must be an internet infant.

Normally I wouldn't post two music videos in one go, but then I found out that Sleep Token just released a new video today while I was at work. What kind of monster would I be if I didn't pass it along to others to discover? This isn't a band that just makes songs with mass appeal. Here is the link: Something a little quirky and unique to wet your musical whistle. #grownostr #music #ListenToThis #MusicVideos #BedtimeProcrastination #somethingdifferent

Time for another music video that you should check out and see if it suits your tastes: #grownostr #music #ListenToThis #MusicVideos #TrueArtist #BedtimeProcrastination

There's a solar eclipse happening on the other side of the earth from me right now! #grownostr #solareclipse

#grownostr #TSP I'm ready! Let's go!