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Friday Inspiration 535
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You’ve probably heard some version of the oft-quoted saying, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." Well, if you want to up your game a little bit, maybe the second-best time to plant a Miyawaki forest (or a “pocket forest”) is now. (via Kottke)
A few years ago I read Brad Balukjian’s book The Wax Pack, in which he opens a 29-year-old pack of baseball cards and tracked down each of the 15 players represented on the cards to find out how they’re doing—which is just a brilliant idea for a book. So when I saw this story about a 1998 baseball card with two rookies on it, one of which was seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, and the other a guy who never played a Major League game, my interest was of course piqued. [GIFT LINK]
My friend Alex sent me this Atlantic story titled “I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America” and I could probably bestow upon it one of many descriptives saying it’s great writing that is exhaustively researched, but I will just say it is the funniest goddamn thing I have read in a long time, and I get the feeling that Caity Weaver probably had as much fun writing some of these sentences as I had reading them. [GIFT LINK]
I loved this thoughtful illustrated essay on cars and youth and scars and aging and machines, especially the last page (thanks, Hilary).
Legendary photographer and verified nice guy Mikey Schaefer is giving away free prints of a few of his iconic photos of Dean Potter to raise money for The Access Fund and Friends of YOSAR (the bigger your donation, the bigger your print) until May 12th or until he gets overwhelmed.
This was a fun and touching thread of replies to scroll through: People responded to the prompt “Question: how rich are you? You can’t mention money.”
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Next month is Pride Month, and if you'd like to donate to your local LGBTQ+ organization, that's a wonderful idea. If you'd like to indirectly donate to MY local LGBTQ+ center, you can do that by purchasing one of these t-shirts—100 percent of the profits are donated to The Center in Missoula:
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, columnist for Outside Magazine. My newsletter about creativity, adventure, and enthusiasm goes out to 15,000+ subscribers every week.
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Friday Inspiration 534 This is just a really pleasant way to spend 3 minutes: Watching backcountry ice skaters in Alaska, brought to you by adventure legend Luc Mehl. (video) (thanks, Alice) Hilary has been taking classes to get her Montana Master Naturalist certification, so I have been getting to hear a lot about plants and birds over the past several months. (Like, more than I normally do.) AND, I got to read this amazing little piece about this insane thing that the earth does at...
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