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so long...

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Thanks for all the remix see you in the Fediverse combobulating.net

Don't mow, just grow, dammit! #WildDS106

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If you ever spent a Long Weekend In Alice Springs  you'd notice some lawns that have the sign 'Don't Mow' posted. This instructs the over-zealous council people to skip that lawn. These lawns are interesting, scruffy, colourful and easier to keep than the manicured green patches. Destroying wildflowers can get people riled-up! In the desert, water is the thing! The soil is great but red sand is pervasive and grass soon turns to dust ponds without moisture. However, you can walk along the many trails and see wildflowers and a wide variety of plants (if the Buffel grasses have been removed or kept in check). I don't have anything against weeds but they sure block the wildflowers and diversity. There are a group of volunteers that clear the buffel at the end of the house blocks. The wildflowers are stunning. How do I combobulate? Joining in # ReclaimOpen2025 is a joy! It is connecting me to the DS106 Daily Create ed and tech folks I haven't seen for aw...

One thing leads to another

Visibility of process is part of my open practice. In this writing I share the process of learning, sharing and creating with the #DS106 Daily Create. It starts with a creative prompt a DS106 daily prompt  https://daily.ds106.us/tdc5042/ can I respond to a previous prompt – a lonely prompt leading me down the search path: Find TDCs but I need to weed out, set boundaries, find – to find a lonely one from over 3,000 prompts I search November 2015 now I have 30 create prompts to pick from I find it... #tdc1409 Question your teaspoons has three lonely responses that piques my curiosity I read the original prompt I find the writings by Perec  (1973) I keep reading adding a new word to my vocabulary Infra-Ordinary I question my lovely teaspoon handle holds childhood memories  posting the story on Mastodon I do not wait for a like or response my teaspoon video sits happy proud of it's place amongst many others on the tube of us. https://youtu.be/WwVXlRrqkYU?si=Fo4pBsw0UpvngNCi