Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont

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Rural Vermonter, artist & philosopoet, enterprise architect, husband & father | Exploring justice, healing, stewardship & creativity | I seek dominion over no one & allow no one dominion over me | He/Him | Views my own

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Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 14

Need a break from ism fighting and mortal troll combat for a minute? Perhaps a hot cup of embodied cosmic lovegasm? Enjoy one of my favorite poems (Eternal Kiss) and paintings (Igniting Roots) ❤️ --- Magic comes from the one light And divides one into two So that two may celebrate as one... 🧵

One of my favorite paintings. Two figures dancing under trees. There are figures in the branches making love. A spiral connecting Earth and Sky. Acrylic on hot press watercolor paper

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 14

JP can correct me if I, too, am misreading, but as far as I am reading he wasn't talking about whether or not Biden was racist, he was commenting on the regular harassment that Black voters face that insinuates or straight up accuses them of supporting genocide. Take care.

OP's post highlighting the words harassment and accusing Black voters.of supporting genocide.

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 14

Our Thistle Tree continues to surpass all expectations. The bloom should be incredible

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 14

A red spiraling circle on a black background, a white rectangle at the end

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 14

"How long before your attention span is spent?
Before you can only digest this news in small,
occasional doses? The invading forces calculate
their aggression in accordance to your exhaustion
and loss of interest. They depend on your short
attention span to achieve their long term goals.
They need you to get caught up in trivial
discussions, to feel that these things must simply
run their course, to feel that you have no power
to stop them, that it is out of your hands."

Saul Williams

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 13

10,000 people. JFC. What am I doing.

NYT headline proclaiming 10,000 immigrant arrests in 5 days.

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 12

Love mysty #vermont summer sunsets

Stopped on a bridge to grab this picture of a misty sunset over a valley river

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 11

Captain Mi-Mo (rhymes with Nemo) is a tail wagging milk drinking happy ball of ready to take on the world

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 11

An awesome stick formed in the shape of a broken heart with one of the curve missing with some loofstrife against a wooded background

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 10

Trot trot trot HIP BUMP SPIN I'm the super runt snuggle nut patch 'o-r-e-o itchin ‘n scratchin itty bitty tippity tappin mightiest gallopin snackin’ raspcallion whackitty frolickin back flippin skippin ‘n playin sleepn ‘n eatin HayAllDay Rollin’ round w/ a KAPOW! And a kick-flip I I I I am Cowlick

Holding Cowlick close just a couple hours after she was born <3

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 9

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Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 9

Excerpt from Saul Williams' 'Coded Language' Performance: youtu.be/jzY2-GRDiPM?...

From Saul Williams' 'Coded Language'

... We claim the present as the present as the hereafter
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun
We are not afraid of the darkness
We trust that the moon shall guide us
We are determining the future at this very moment
We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of three buckets of water
And a handful of minerals
Thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
Supply the percussive factor of forever
If you must count to keep the beat, then count
Find your mantra and awaken your subconscious
Draw your circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher coded language, man-made laws
Climb waterfalls and trees
Commune with nature, snakes and bees
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves
As the new day for today

We are determined to be the channelers
Of these changing frequencies into songs
Painting, writing, dance, drama
Photography, carpentry, crafts
Love and love
We enlist every instrument, acoustic, electronic
Every so-called gender, race, sexual preference
Every per-son as beings of sound
To acknowledge their responsibility
To uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking world...

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 9

Jack & Mew, the present resident cast of our indoor zoo! ♥️

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 7

In the feral hush / where the gospel ends / and the wind begins

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 7

... the kingdom was never a throne or a tower / it was moss blooming / the most quiet of power ...

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 7

When I was in my early 20s, I spent some time meandering around the ruins of the Maya. One day as I was wandering at Lakam'ha (Palenque,) in awe, I met another traveler. Don't recall where he was from, somewhere in South America. I said something along the lines of "isn't this place amazing" ...

Two old photos of "the Palace" in Lakam'ha (Palenque) from a photo album

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 7

I am not good at much, but I am definitely not good at comics 🤣 This is my takeaway from hearing a bunch of people overly focused on winning power over, instead of empowering and uplifting one another. "Be excellent to each other" 🙏❤️✌️

12 Frames...

1. People at starting line in teams by color. Our main characters are in red.
2. People are running
3. One red team member falls, we learn his name is Jimmy. A bunch of people show concern, except one guy who is like "Dude, get up!"
4. Our dumbass says "we have to leave him"
5. Continuing "You want to win right?", everyone is giving him side eye and asking WTF
6. He says "forget them!" and takes off running
7. He tells himself he will win it for Jimmy.
8. He finishes first
9. Other teams finish
10. His team finally reaches the finish line, Jimmy says "Thanks, all, you're the best"
11. Our dumbass comes up and is like "We won!" and everyone else is like "WTF Dude"
12. Race results are posted. Red is last.

It was a team race. Our dude is a dumbass. He stould have helped Jimmy.

The end.

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 7

'Puzzling' - one of my favorite pieces! Made of scrap wood pieces from various projects. Inspired by my pops who did lots of cool things with scrap. All the wood was harvested from the land we were living on, except the wave shaped piece in the lower left. Approx 3'x4' or so

My initial idea was of the mythical "Atlas" like figure holding a world which had a smaller version of the mythical "Atlas" sitting on it, holding a world, which had the mythical "Atlas" sitting on it, holding a world... This is what emerged as I worked with the wood available. The self recursive element remains, though Atlas in his Greek form didn't really reveal himself, and instead, this came out!

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 7

Hey I apologize I just noticed I think I answered your question backwards. There is a very broad spread of different models that have emerged over the last few hundred years. @damienmarieathope.bsky.social shared this once, it's a fascinating at-a-glance of what has been considered ✌️

Various forms of socialism is a mind map structure

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 5

The Nerve Unpincher 5000™

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 4

Captain Mi-Mo is doing great, but the Super Nibbler aka Vincent van #Goat is eating everything except food. Mama was looking good yesterday, but has turned for the worse again 😔

Our oldest human kid feeding our youngest goat kid by bottle

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 4

Hey Nubia!! Thanks for sharing this! I think you just unlocked for me what I was trying to figure out when I made this 30 years ago 😂 Have looked at it so many times in the last few years and been like "cool, but what are the numbers?!" How goes the/your world over there??

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 4

Working today, but found myself looking at old pictures & reminiscing. Also, don't know if it exists, but there needs to be a service where a third-party will go through thousands of digital photos and delete all the dirty ones before your kids press "start slideshow" at your memorial service😂

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 4

There are many places you can find the US flag flown majestically in the context of pristine marble & symbolic projections of power. Meandering through the rural foothills, you will sometimes come across a quiet shrine where someone, likely a veteran, processes & reflects on the reality. 📷 2008

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 4

My wife and I were lucky to connect up with awesome folks ~2008 & get deeply involved with the local agriculture & art & food coop movements in #vermont (sorry, feel awkward sharing photos of people wo their permission, so you'll have to imagine this place full) What we learned, in the end, is that

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 4

At some point in my 20s I remember realizing that the revolution wasn't going to be anywhere like I had originally thought it would be in my fiery youth, and most of the changes necessary to bring about "socialism" needed to be done by creative and persistent lawyers and accountants.

VERMONT LAW REVIEW
Volume 35 NUMBER 1
FALL 2010
CORPORATE CREATIVITY: The VERMONT L3C & OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP VERMONT
Law Review Tenth anNUaL S YMPoSiUM
Introduction
Linda O. Smiddy
The L3C, History, Basic Construct, and Legal Framework
Robert Lang & Elizabeth Carrott Minnigh
Transcript: Creating the CIC Stephen Lloyd
Capital Famine Arthur Wood Transcript: Program-Related Investments in Practice Luther M. Ragin Jr:
Blended Enterprise and the Dual Mission Dilemma Dana Brakman Reiser Negating the Legal Problem of Having "Two Masters":
Vermont's Social Hybrid Pioneers: Early Observations and Questions to Ponder Elizabeth Schmidt
Freezing Out Ben & Jerry: Corporate Law and the Antony Page & Robert A. Katz Sale of a Social Enterprise Icon
Financing the American Newspaper in the Twenty-First Century Richard Schmalbeck L3C Illusion: Why Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies
Transcript: New Legal Structures to Address the Social
ARTICLES The Role of Social Enterprise Robert A. Katz & Antony Page
A Framework for L3C Fiduciary Duties and Accountability
John Tyler
The will not Stimulate Socially Optimal Private Foundation Investment in J, William Callison & Allan W. Vestal Entrepreneurial Ventures
NOTE
Resolving Disputes in the Northern Forest: Benjamin M. Leoni Lessons from the Connecticut and Moosehead Lakes

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 2

"Every piece of the puzzle has its place to build the piece of the puzzle called the human race" - Franti

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 2

Thanks for asking! 🥰💔

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

(Yeates)

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 2

Something has gone terribly wrong, as it sometimes does 😔 My wife is spending much love, energy & time trying to help but, May is... liminal 😔 She made the impossible call this morning to bring the two kids to the house where we can bottle feed them & hopefully give May space & time to heal 💔❤️

Two sweet & silly baby goats in our living room

Nick of the Northern Vermont Piedmont@precursive· Jul 2

The little things 🐸