Month July 2026

We Were Talking About Yurts & Tipis

carpet and pillows in tent

The conversation started with tipis and yurts ~ the structures that surface in the fantasy of living close to the land. Having lived in both, I want to say something plainly: they are not romantic to live in. More importantly, the idea that nature is somewhere you have to go to find misses something essential. You have never left it. The question is what kind of relationship you are building with what is already here.

The Difference Between Knowing a Plant and Knowing About a Plant

here's a version of chamomile that lives on the internet ~ fourteen seconds, soft light, a caption calling it nature's Xanax. Everyone walks away knowing something about chamomile. Almost nobody walks away knowing chamomile. That gap between information and real botanical knowledge isn't small, and the culture we live inside profits from keeping it blurry. Here's what actually separates a fact you can repeat from a relationship you can draw on when it counts.