Caspar Henderson
@casparhenderson
Award-winning knees
“the English Elm has, in its body, the breaths of the centuries of people who’ve visited Washington Square” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Their stated motivation is to create as many people or sentient beings as possible before the heat death of the universe. But why? What’s the point of this cruel dream? Do they think they’re going to get a high score on the leaderboard at the end of the universe?” Adam Becker on EA and long termism
Two alarms: “The first is the likelihood that, even as… emissions level off and perhaps start to fall, the rate at which Earth’s surface temperature is rising will continue to quicken… The second is the degree to which all this comes as a surprise” economist.com/science-and-...
The Attack of the Killer Hydrangeas continues. This one is bigger than my skull
“I was never jealous of big houses, but of big windows” — Yiannis Ritsos. Fortunate to visit some big trees early this morning
Red gooseberries. Delicious and sweet straight off the bush. It may be no better fruit exists. New to me. I only ever knew of green ones before now
This morning my feet were visited by the spirits of mandarinfish or flamboyant cuttlefish from the levitating rainbow pools of the Akond of Swat
I was fortunate yesterday morning to be part of a team helping with the maintenance of the White Horse at Uffington. Part of an unbroken tradition of care, connection and dreams over more than 3,000 years
It’s my birthday today and I am fortunate to celebrate with friends in the sunshine (and nearby shade. Holding this poem, reportedly from a Zen master. (Thanks, MB)
Tree of tawny berry rich though wild. John Clare, The Surry Tree (Wild Service) Heard a bird that my app identified as a Spotted Flycatcher, which would be unusual indeed
Consciousness is the horizon for the world’s disclosure. — The Blindspot by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser and Evan Thompson
Women as well as men: “All equal and alike in power, dignity, authority, and majesty.”
A good thing about getting older is that one has been around to watch trees grow. I first noticed this ash, which I passed yesterday on the way to a tiny adventure, and which appears to be free of dieback, when it was a sapling a foot or two high
On the origins of a government that, at least in theory, “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.” Richmond and The Society of Arts www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...