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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 29/09/2026

I love days when the clouds hang low right over the hills we live in and the valley gives us this beautiful private sky

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 28/09/2026

Portland is a place that knows what it is about.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 22/09/2026

At this point we, as a civilization, deserve every bad thing coming our way

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 22/09/2026

There is no bottom. Impossible to tell the difference between satire and reality, honestly. Are you all sick of this yet?

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 09/09/2026

For those interested, I strongly recommend "World-Ending Fire" to start with Wendell Berry

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 02/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry 💌 He was a good man and I learned a lot from him about how I want to live my life. He was 92, so this is sad but not tragic. Let us all hope we get as many good years as he did. And let us all try to be worthy of those years.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 31/08/2026

The basic building blocks of a life can be beautiful if you let them

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 10/08/2026

I love walking up to people wearing “Manchester United” gear and excitedly asking them how psyched they are for Ted Lasso season 4

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 03/08/2026

Started watching Grease with the family since it's a "classic" but stopped like 20 min in. Incredible how poorly this held up. Made me feel icky af. Boomers as kids sexually harassing each other and being mean. That's it. Things, in many ways, were way worse back then.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 31/07/2026

Probably not before that sticker falls off though

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 22/06/2026

I built the coop where I did because it's near the garden but gets the afternoon shade of this 200-year-old Douglas fir.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 19/06/2026

I have been sitting with this one for a week and it has not lost its power

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 19/06/2026

Have you noticed how magical the sky can be?

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 18/06/2026

We will have apples and we do have raspberries

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 17/06/2026

He's been thinking about it for a while now

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 16/06/2026

Love to see street fruit in Oregon City

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 15/05/2026

The lilac blends with the roses and you KNOW what it smells like out here.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 15/05/2026

Climbing roses on the chicken coop was a good idea.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 14/05/2026

The kids cut and hung their homegrown "Meowie Wowie" catnip up to dry. Our cat is nearly 18 now, and the kids are *determined* that she "go to the moon"

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 11/05/2026

I've started picking flowers from the garden and putting them on my wife's bedside stand. Smells like roses and lilacs in here now.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 07/05/2026

Bet you'd never guess that the person with a bumper sticker that undermines the "COEXIST" design by replacing it with "EAT A DICK" drives like a reckless, inconsiderate dick. People constantly tell on themselves 🤷‍♂️

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 05/05/2026

Robin's nest *way* up there. We can hear the babies and Mama Bird is very industrious Good our soil is full of worms & our gardens full of insect life There's room enough for all of us and it feels good to fully embrace our role as "one of many participants in the web of life"

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 05/05/2026

I don't mean to alarm you, but strawberries are *a full month early* this year.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 05/05/2026

Life really wants to take hold of only we stop trying to control it. Grass growing in a rotting log can be a teacher and a lesson for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 04/05/2026

There will be apples. And marionberries.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 27/04/2026

They don’t care enough about you to give you bread, so it’s all just circuses now.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 20/04/2026

Hazelnut cutting from my recently-passed grandmother's home. I used to climb these trees when I was young. But they live on here.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 18/04/2026

I am not religious. But I'm beginning to believe demons are real. Because this is not a human being:

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 18/04/2026

He goes on to frame his abject parental failure as "maybe a good thing" and this is how our civilization will collapse This is why we *deserve* the collapse we are shuffling toward We know what is happening to us and our incentives are to admire the problem as we have no agency

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 14/04/2026

Her first day with us. Her last day with us. 15 years between the two photos. She bouyed my spirit through a lot of life's darkness. I think she held on as long as she did to see me through it. I wish she was here to see me now. I miss her beautiful soul.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 14/04/2026

What is the best book on John Brown and why?

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 10/04/2026

Vegetables can be *delicious* if you know how to cook 'em. You can feed a lot of people with a cabbage. They're easy to grow, and are cheap to buy.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 10/04/2026

Cybertruck really showing through here.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 09/04/2026

Peaches in the PNW are are real challenge.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 09/04/2026

This is my favorite tree. It is old and enormous (~7-foot diameter). But it has also suffered at the hands of thoughtless men. It is, in my heart, a microcosm of the entire world. Decaying splendor, tragic strength, deep roots, undeniable beauty fading in our thoughtless hands.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 08/04/2026

This dwarf peach was a gift from my friend, Tres, when he and his family visited us from Georgia.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 08/04/2026

Hard to find garden buddies more charming than yardbirds

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 07/04/2026

The figs are yawning awake in the sun

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 06/04/2026

The sea berries are showing spring growth. No fruit yet obviously. I love these berries juiced, but they're so hard to harvest. Apparently you prune and freeze and shake the frozen berries off. We're gonna try that this year.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 04/04/2026

Touched grass this afternoon. Found calm and space and let the light in. Breathed the breeze in and let it spread to every cell in my body. Life can be miraculous if you let it.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 03/04/2026

This sentiment extends, I think, to nearly everything.

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 31/03/2026

Every time it rains, the trunk of my Tesla Model 3 fills with water. @Tesla replaced the trunk and the seals twice under warranty. When the car ran out of warranty, they made me pay for the last seal repair, saying that the repair would have a one-year warranty.

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