I picked up a part time job at the local garden center and have this longing to take the whole spring and summer off social media, that I’m probably going to follow through with. Not sure what that means for my business yet. But I see feel you when you talk about the time it takes, the purposeful breeding of short attention spans and shallow roots, and really just wanting to be more attuned to what’s happening in my little neck of the woods.
The rub is that one thing social *does do* well is help us reach "our" people. Perhaps a little easier for you in a place like CO, but I can barely get 10 people here to sign up for a seasonal mindfulness workshop, for example. Plus, all of the publishers that I keep sending book proposals out to tell me that my social media platform isn't nearly large enough. So it feels like this choice between getting the word out about these things you love to do and being sucked into a system that many of us don't feel comfortable supporting.
I worked at a garden center in college, and lately (maybe since I saw you mention your new job?), I've been daydreaming about it. I would help people pick out plants, water trees, and move soil all day. It was so dreamy in hindsight. I hope yours is dreamy too.
Not only is the Land Institute’s kernza an amazingly restorative crop for the soil, it’s also amazingly delicious as we discovered on vacation by eating the Cascadian Farms organic cereal made with “climate smart kernza grains!” A win-win (and it was on sale so actually a win-win-win!)
Little known terrifying trivia for your readers - do you know what the #1 US export is? I’m told it’s topsoil runoff, eroding from fields via rain downpours and raging rivers that then (eventually) sends the topsoil into the oceans.
This could not have been more timely for my life. The monoculture - attention merchant metaphor is perfect and can’t wait to dig in to your extensions. Thank you, Sara.
"I’ve learned over the past several weeks that it costs me more than just the actual minutes I spend on it."
This might be the most insidious part of it.
Yep! Thanks for your wisdom on the subject.
Wow - that Instructions on Not Giving Up poem is stunning! As always, thanks for sharing!
Glad you liked it too. Thanks, as always, for reading!!
I picked up a part time job at the local garden center and have this longing to take the whole spring and summer off social media, that I’m probably going to follow through with. Not sure what that means for my business yet. But I see feel you when you talk about the time it takes, the purposeful breeding of short attention spans and shallow roots, and really just wanting to be more attuned to what’s happening in my little neck of the woods.
The rub is that one thing social *does do* well is help us reach "our" people. Perhaps a little easier for you in a place like CO, but I can barely get 10 people here to sign up for a seasonal mindfulness workshop, for example. Plus, all of the publishers that I keep sending book proposals out to tell me that my social media platform isn't nearly large enough. So it feels like this choice between getting the word out about these things you love to do and being sucked into a system that many of us don't feel comfortable supporting.
I worked at a garden center in college, and lately (maybe since I saw you mention your new job?), I've been daydreaming about it. I would help people pick out plants, water trees, and move soil all day. It was so dreamy in hindsight. I hope yours is dreamy too.
Not only is the Land Institute’s kernza an amazingly restorative crop for the soil, it’s also amazingly delicious as we discovered on vacation by eating the Cascadian Farms organic cereal made with “climate smart kernza grains!” A win-win (and it was on sale so actually a win-win-win!)
Little known terrifying trivia for your readers - do you know what the #1 US export is? I’m told it’s topsoil runoff, eroding from fields via rain downpours and raging rivers that then (eventually) sends the topsoil into the oceans.
I like you, hubz.
This could not have been more timely for my life. The monoculture - attention merchant metaphor is perfect and can’t wait to dig in to your extensions. Thank you, Sara.
Thanks for reading, Kell! Please report back on your own findings!
Can't stop thinking about monoculture and social media landscape now. Thanks for the share! In it with you, so in itttttt.
Thanks for leading the way :) Once I saw the monoculture thing, I couldn't unsee it!