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[mendaciloquent]

Spring creeps, early this year, though no doubt with even earlier springs to come.

It's odd, planting an ochard in the face of climate change: I plant trees that don't thrive here, not quite yet, but will thrive, after much devastation has already struck elsewhere. It's forward-thinking, in a way, but also feels dirty, resigned, calculating. Not

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[proximoception]

There’s only ever been the one green deal.

[benicek]

I’ve maybe reached the opposite conclusion in reading up on Late Antiquity and Romano-British archaeology. I’m living in the north-western corner of what used to be an administrative entity that stretched from Scotland as far as Morocco and Syria, and had a common religion and language. People, even common soldiers and small traders, spent their careers moving all over it. Later it was transformed by multiple different linguistic and political groups moving into and across it. Medieval and early modern Europe was highly mobile too. Cities like London or Amsterdam sucked in migrants from all over. It was impossible that they did not, because city death rates far outstripped birth rates. Present day Europe with all its borders, contrived ‘national’ languages and increasing number of states, seems to be regressing into immobility, not the other way round

[mendaciloquent]

Well, two thoughts on that

[nightspore]

I love this entry.

March is now the cruelest month.

[sabotabby]

What's that cheesy hippie saying? Even if the world was ending tomorrow, I'd plant a tree today. I like that.

[paulhope]

Your rural location may be predisposing you to a sense of 'place' that is not in movement