cook1097 · @cook1097
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Many are frighted of black cats, but like the hound of Baskerville, the black cat is given a bad reputation . Black cats are elegant. Please enjoy! by .

mockingowlroost.com/blog/black
(Pictured are black cats on a cat tree. The background is black with gold stars.)

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cook1097 · @cook1097
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cook1097 · @cook1097
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Open call for submissions for the Positivity Corner and My Favorite Things portion of our blog until August 31st. Be sure to read our guidelines before submitting. We look forward to your submissions.

MockingowlRoost.com/submission
( Pictured is a white background with gold and green lettering.)

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cook1097 · @cook1097
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Storms mean something different to each person . It can be a welcomed friend, or a terrifying event. Enjoy  by .

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(Pictured is a storm with lightning. The title and byline are written in white letters across the sky.)

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cook1097 · @cook1097
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The Tiger is a legend in the Cook home. Time has passed since this piece was written, and he had since lost both eyes to Glaucoma. He is still a legend, and is doing well. Enjoy by .

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(Pictured is a grey/white ShihTzu sitting on a rock next to a tree.)

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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In today's I reach back to a difficult period in my life, when I was in fourth grade, and a frenemy kid (because I didn't really have genuine friends in those days) brought a little Ziploc bag to school containing, of all things, a complete science fiction wargame: Metagaming's Microgame 1, OGRE. blackgate.com/2014/12/02/the-c

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cook1097 · @cook1097
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Swans look so beautiful as they glide through the water, but black swans are elegance personified. Mystery and elegance all in one perfect package. Enjoy this installment of by

mockingowlroost.com/blog/black
(Pictured is a black swan on water.)

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cook1097 · @cook1097
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Sometimes just a sweet smile can bring a brightness to your day, especially when it’s a Quokka smiling your way. Enjoy! by .

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(Pictures is a Quokka in the wild. The boarder around the picture is tan and contains the title, and by-line.)

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Khurram Wadee ✅ · @mkwadee
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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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(I may have to do a about “Some Velvet Morning,” if not on “Nancy & Lee” in its entirety. It is such a powerfully strange song. At least the orchestration and arrangement in the Danzig cover does it justice.)

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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Today in we have the wonderful work of Dianna Settles, an Atlanta-based whose work depicts things we almost never get to see in the medium of paint: lovingly-detailed representations of the day-to-day reality of activism and communal life. Her are uplifting and deeply heartening, without ever once straying into sentimentality. diannasettles.website/

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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Today in , by popular demand, we have “A Pattern Language” (1977), by Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein et al.: a *luminous* compendium of practical insights into how the might be best organized as to support human flourishing, across every stage of life. It is possibly the most humane document in all of thought. (The PDF I’ve linked here isn’t complete, sadly, but it will give you a very strong flavor of the work.) arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%2

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Carol Peters · @carolpeters
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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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Today in we have Pattern 81 from “A Pattern Language” by Alexander et al., in its entirety. It describes the design of “Small Services Without Red Tape,” or ways in which service-sector interactions with members of the can be physically designed to be and feel less bureaucratic, and to mitigate the power relations between service providers functioning as gatekeepers and their clients. (Really the whole book is one of my very favorite things.)

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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Today in we have Stephen Mitchell’s luminous 1988 translation of the “Tao Te Ching,” available in its entirety online at the link below. Mitchell’s choices were profoundly informed by his long practice of under the Korean master Seung Sahn, and it shows in every word. Accessible, clear and modern, but never once cheaply so, his version renders all the power of the original without stumbling into Orientalist cliche. It is a stupendous achievement. terebess.hu/english/tao/mitche

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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In today’s edition of we have Street Farm, a radical collective founded at the Architectural Association here in London in 1971. A half-generation younger than (who’d similarly grown out of encounters at the AA), the Street Farmers pursued a completely different vision of technology in the urban everyday, drawn largely from Our & based on techniques we’d now call or . Dig Graham Craine’s metabolic diagram of his Street Farmhouse!

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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@nyrath (I’m currently researching a post about OGRE/G.E.V. for sometime next week.)

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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It occurs to me I haven’t done a for awhile, so let me share with you the work of Ken Isaacs. I first discovered his “How To Build Your Own Living Structures” in my hippie-school library when I was 13, and it blew my mind (in the parlance of the times). It’s a book of DIY recipes for brilliant, idiosyncratic modular structures that saddle the gap between furniture & architecture; to this day I dream of building myself a Superchair. Get yr own copy here! letsremake.info/PDFs/k_isaacs.

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Adam Greenfield · @adamgreenfield
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It occurs to me I haven’t done a for awhile, so let me share with you the work of Ken Isaacs. I first discovered his “How To Build Your Own Living Structures” in the my hippie-school library when I was 13, and it blew my mind (in the parlance of the times). It’s a book of DIY recipes for brilliant, idiosyncratic modular structures that saddle the gap between furniture and architecture. To this day I dream of building myself a Superchair. Get you a copy! letsremake.info/PDFs/k_isaacs.

#myfavoritethings

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