impermanen_ 🕊️

An aging, distracted, anarchic contemplative who lives on a farm with donkeys, works in #solar, advocates for #degrowth and anti-fascism, practices #Vajrayana #Buddhist #meditation.

Posts pics of our burros on the #asstodon tag

Rare drops of buddhadharma

#FreePalestine #Zapatista

The header artwork is by Wang Yiguang

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2024-11-21 20:00:45

✌️
#asstodon
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2024-11-19 00:09:04

“You’ve got to try this hay. It’s positively to die for.”
#asstodon
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2024-11-17 13:33:19

New Mexico is overrun by Sandhill cranes right now. They trespass on private property and commit other crimes. So un-American.
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2024-11-10 13:10:33

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I used to feed crickets to my pet tarantula (a handsome Texas Brown I rescued from a highway) until he started molting and, unable to defend himself, was eaten by his own supper. I felt terrible about the whole thing.
@npub1a38…ujj0

2024-11-10 00:24:18

Two sassy asses having a wild rumpus
#asstodon
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2024-11-09 16:52:20

Welcome! Have a seat!
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2024-11-09 16:11:20

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@npub1xpc…3t05 I will complain bitterly about it and I’m about to make my old body very sore trying to get rid of it, but I actually love the snow.

2024-11-09 16:06:45

The good news is that the storm cleared and the sun is out. Beautiful! The bad news is I don’t believe in snow-blowers so now I have to start digging us out by hand.
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2024-11-08 23:01:23

My coworker is constantly eating at his desk from the moment he arrives at the office.
#Fensterfreitag
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2024-10-17 15:57:10

If the morning were a bird this morning would be a flock of flamingos
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2024-09-24 00:03:03

From the early 50s to the late 80s there was a pretty luxurious passenger train that you could take from San Antonio to Mexico City. It was called the Aguila Azteca. It had nice sleeping cars, fine dining, an observation lounge car with a bar, the works.
In the 80s the 1st class fare from Texas to Mexico City was $15.
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2024-09-23 19:36:23

So we’re getting ready to sell our little home in the forest before the forest burns down, or the insurance company cancels our coverage and the bank calls in the mortgage.
The question is: if not here, where?
We’re currently entranced by an adobe home in NM built “prior to 1850.” It’s very small but it features indoor plumbing and electricity. Has a great barn. Ngl, I kind of love it when we get this stupid together. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏽‍♀️

2024-09-20 00:47:15

The donkeys are really enjoying tonight’s sunset.
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2024-09-20 00:34:33

Me: Say “cheese”, Arturo!
Arturo: 😬
#asstodon
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2024-09-16 19:57:16

Oh a small one. Pleased to meet you!
#horse
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2024-09-11 13:30:48

Good morning, all.
#asstodon
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2024-09-07 00:50:24

Got together with an old school friend. It’d been so many years. After lunch he said: let’s find a guitar shop. (He plays professionally) We found a shop, he picked up a guitar, and began playing a song that was vaguely familiar to me, giving me a funny look. After a long time listening it finally dawned on me: it was a stupid song I wrote when we were maybe 13 years old. Apparently I’d taught it to him and he’d remembered it for 48 years. To have a friend that remembers something like that… 🥲

2024-08-30 22:00:30

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@npub1zt3…0v09 wow. And that little one let you pick them up? We've seen a lot of baby bunnies around here but that one is so very small to be out of the burrow.

2024-08-29 17:54:14

The donkeys rewarded a couple of their loyal servants with a hike yesterday. A good time was had by all. #asstodon
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2024-08-25 00:34:40

One reason I’m a proponent of #degrowth is because the best quality of life I ever experienced was living in Mexico on < $500 a month. Traveled everywhere on foot or by bus: no need for a car. Worked as a restaurant musician. Lovely but simple apartment. Walked to the market every day to buy fresh produce from people who knew me by name and I them. Washed clothes by hand in public wash basins surrounded by beautiful gardens, flirty housewives and cute babies. Good, cheap dental and medical care.

2024-08-16 15:36:12

After a couple weeks of wildfire smoke-induced nosebleeds this summer I started using a neti pot a couple times a day. No more nosebleeds and much easier breathing, esp when using my CPAP. Feels nice.
But hold the phone! What I just learned is that nasal irrigation has proven to be a good intervention to prevent #COVID infection as well as to relieve symptoms and speed clearing of the virus if you get it. 😯 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10312243/
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-08-04 15:35:38

Wild donkeys are often rounded up and removed from public land at the behest of cattle ranchers. But these donkeys create habitat for many species and even help cattle by digging wells in otherwise arid places. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wild-donkeys-horses-ecosystem-engineer-water-holes-invasive-species #asstodon
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2024-08-02 16:53:22

Spa day for the equines. The barn turns into a nail salon… kind of.
💅
#HorsesOfMastodon
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2024-07-27 16:55:03

Excuse me, human, this is a meeting of the equines. You’ll have to get down on all fours and become completely vegan if you want to join.
#asstodon
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2024-07-22 19:40:33

The Flying Burrito Brothers
#asstodon
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2024-07-22 18:30:49

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@npub19uy…0n85 I'm glad you bother to read and respond so clearly to these self-styled libertarians and their vile intellectual parlor games. I met many of these guys in the '80s and, pee-ew, they stink even worse with age.

2024-07-19 17:50:50

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@npub1sfl…gczt I live in an area that went 75% for Trump in 2016. The enthusiasm level seems much lower. Way fewer flags, signs and bumper stickers.

2024-07-14 13:21:31

HOW TO DONKEY
by Arturo and Manuel
As much as possible, regardless of the size of the pasture or the spread of available salad material, you want to graze the EXACT same spot as your herd mate. It’s very important! That’s because this avoids the problem of… well…
It’s just more fun this way.
#asstodon
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2024-07-13 00:03:11

So, I scheduled 6 hours to do Very Hard Thinky Thing today.
Next I wasted away all but 20 minutes of that time in sloth, torpor and self-loathing.
And then…
A miracle happened. With 20 mins left to accomplish Very Hard Must Really Focus Thing I finally got started. And I solved the problem in 15 mins. Leaving 5 mins to spare to post this. 🙌
#adhd

2024-07-12 02:58:04

We’ll get through this somehow together. Have a peaceful night, all.
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2024-07-09 03:32:39

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@npub17hj…7a0r Still in service?! Wow.

2024-07-02 19:34:17

Thinking about what to do in these times:
* train my mind daily to be more courageous, less self-centered and less comfort-seeking (#dharma)
* prepare for the worst while acting as if already free
* study history, especially of resistance movements
* lighten up on possessions, be ready to move
* find local people to organize with, form a network for mutual aid
* prepare to take in vulnerable people seeking refuge

2024-06-30 13:00:48

A misty Sunday to you from the Foggy Burrito Gang. #asstodon
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2024-06-23 18:43:58

It’s me. Hi. I’m the problematic guy in a FaceTime call on his phone while shopping in the grocery store.
Just know that my mom is 86, disabled and in a nursing home, and she loves these occasions when she can “get out” with me while I’m doing chores, cleaning barn stalls or running errands. Compared to the usual couch-based call these brighten her up and fill her with all kinds of questions and comments about my life. The smiles per hour go way up!
Thank you for your patience! 🙏

2024-06-22 00:55:48

Monday is a big day, 8 months in the preparation: first demo of our rooftop solar site modeling platform to a prospective customer. Wouldn’t you know the prospect is only the largest residential solar installer in the US. No pressure. 😅 😬
Our little company is just me and my wife now because we didn’t have money to pay the colleague who worked with us earlier. He got a real job!
It would be very nice to get a paying customer, so wish us luck.

2024-06-21 18:35:21

May I present Frank the Frog, a very solid chonk for #FatFrogFriday ?
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2024-06-21 14:10:42

Being with, watching, and caring for animals is the main way modern humans maintain their sanity.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

2024-06-18 13:51:22

Zipping around the pasture in the cool morning air before it gets too hot to move. 🤠 #asstodon
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2024-06-17 01:37:01

The wind is never separate from the sky, yet the sky remains unaffected by the wind.
#dzogchen
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2024-06-12 01:09:00

Arturo starting to look pretty dapper in his velvety summer coat. #asstodon
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2024-06-06 23:54:34

Juries are starting to refuse to return guilty verdicts for climate protestors charged with tiny offenses against the property of fossil fuel companies. The reason? The jurors acknowledge that these companies have been torching the whole biosphere with impunity and reject the claim to property damage by the protestors. https://juststopoil.org/2024/06/05/jury-finds-just-stop-oil-supporters-not-guilty-in-petrol-pump-case/

2024-06-06 13:36:40

The do-donk-a-hedron is their second favorite toy… after the traffic cone.
#asstodon
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2024-06-05 13:52:47

Yesterday it took the baby magpies about two hours to go from falling awkwardly out of the nest to flying onto the car and depositing the traditional bird offering.
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2024-06-01 14:45:44

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@npub1zt3…0v09 😀 thanks for your online friendship and support! It makes anxious situations ok and ordinary situations fun.

2024-06-01 01:32:08

Well, the old horse seems to be at least somewhat back on his feed this evening. Thanks for all your kind thoughts and suggestions. 🙂🐴
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2024-05-31 17:00:53

The vet couldn’t find anything wrong with the horse that hasn’t eaten in 24 hours. GI sounds were great, heartbeat nice and slow. No signs of pain. I’m happy it’s not a colic—probably the most common way that horses die—but it’s also weird. Everyone at the clinic was laughing that he’s the healthiest horse they’d seen all week. Maybe he’s protesting for a cause that he’s not able to put into words for us.

2024-05-23 18:18:13

Happy Saga Dawa and the seed of future happiness to all sentient beings
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2024-05-21 14:06:07

The neighbor mini donks: “can your donkeys come out and playyyyy?”
Too damn cute. Must be stopped.
#asstodon
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2024-05-20 01:50:59

Today I had a video chat with my mom (who’s 86 and non-ambulatory) and I walked all over the place with her to show her all the wildflowers. I was using my phone so could get right up close. I reminded her of all their names and that she had taught me them. She cried at that and then so did I.

2024-05-20 01:26:50

Tava (“Pikes Peak”) with a host of other sky mountains today
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2024-05-17 13:50:39

Slow down and fix things.

2024-05-15 16:43:27

Blue on blue, today’s wildflower offering
#bloomscrolling
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2024-05-14 13:33:41

The neighbor mini donkeys are here this morning. They have a big pasture and can roam all over it but they prefer to come eat right at the fence line just to taunt our animals. Cutest little brats. #asstodon
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2024-05-11 19:30:09

Now “some” US officials say Israel “may” have violated international law. Killing 10s of thousands of women and children, wiping out whole cities, blocking food, water and medicine to millions, and now we have fucking Abu Ghraib on the West Bank. #gazagenocide
https://truthout.org/articles/report-israeli-prisons-subject-palestinians-to-constant-torture-revenge/

2024-05-11 15:24:51

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@npub1zt3…0v09 look out I think you have two dinosaurs on your head! 😬

2024-05-10 21:12:43

Marveling at the way these tiny lilies pop up exclusively in what appears to be the worst soil. #bloomscrolling
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2024-05-09 12:50:12

Good morning, there!
#asstodon
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2024-05-01 05:26:56

Universities that invite cops to riot against their own students and faculty rather than divest from a genocide? What a world. 😣

2024-05-01 00:40:58

Escaped donkey with sand lilies
#asstodon
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2024-04-28 14:30:16

Winter is baaaacck ack ack ack!
#notsilentsunday #asstodon
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2024-04-27 14:39:17

Donkeys: It’s raining cars and dogs. Could we have our breakfast in our barn stall today?
Me: Sure, but I’ll first need to pick up that poop on the “breakfast table”.
Donkeys: Aaargh… whatEVER! If you ~must~. 🙄😩
#asstodon
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2024-04-26 23:37:41

Manuel taking a break from the walk to pose for the camera and possibly to wish you all a good weekend, idk. #asstodon
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2024-04-23 19:31:13

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Another day, another photo of our wild Pasque flowers getting all wild and flowery #bloomscrolling
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2024-04-22 21:43:16

If you’re getting tired of the wild Pasque flower pics, well, either mute me or suck it up because they may keep coming for a while. #bloomscrolling
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2024-04-20 12:10:21

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@npub1zt3…0v09 well done! And hmm 🤔 our TWH keeps getting eye infections and that Schneider fly mask looks like it might work better to keep his eyes clean.

2023-10-22 18:44:13

The cat who terrorizes without remorse the fallen leaves
#catsofmastodon
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