Hello from post-Equinox heat wave here in the sacred Mojave.

We see with the return of the sun also the return of young tree leaves, bees, dragonflies, and so much more. The cover crops I failed to grow last year are sprouting en masse in newly finished infiltration basins, irrigated with greywater from the communal house, and I've even seen mushrooms that I've inoculated into straw beds fruit after rains. So much of this feels like hope. Our young chickens are enjoying their first unsupervised forays into their little fenced run (until they're big enough to trust foraging), and we saw our first Great Horned Owl a few weeks ago.

Our website is live, and I hope you'll join us if you haven't already. We're releasing our first newsletter Monday, trying to put to digital paper Equinox contemplations, and bring you along on this journey with us.

https://rancholibertad.com

It's free, and we appreciate your support.

We are also trying to get a few trees in the ground before it gets too hot. If you feel up to monetary support to help us with purchasing saplings, we don't have our own ko-fi or paid tiers of the newsletter offering, yet, but we can accept donations (or purchases that support the ranch) through Siin's ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/sigillosacro

We appreciate & love you all, being to being. Stay safe out there.

Siin & Star

Shoot the messenger. Today’s cartoon by Max Gustafson. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc

What are your thoughts on @gretathunberg and her climate activism?

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“Remember Paris” is now on Bandcamp, too:

https://babumenos.bandcamp.com/track/remember-paris

This one is very close to my heart. We all need to push much harder to make politicians and people in power remember the promises they made 2015 in Paris. The devastation we see now is nothing compared to what’s to come once Trump and other fascists cut back on climate laws, efforts, and measures.