Erin Green 🖖

@erin-o-green

A bookish, menopausal, gardening misanthrope — she/her I know the world’s on fire in the US and I’m doing my bit as best I can, but I also can’t absorb all the bile. Star Trek & Books are keeping me alive.

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Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· 29d

Describe yourself in three characters.

Lt. Commander Owosekun smiling with kindness.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· 29d

Finished The Night Guest by @hildur.bsky.social last night—staying up way to late to do so... then got the troubling dreams I deserved. Ever read a book and you kinda know where it's going, but then the path it decides to take is, well, not the one you thought? Yeah. This book's for you.

Cover for The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir. A bright pink background with the title and author. An inviting glass of read wine is being poured until you see that the wine's texture is all wrong. Is that blood? I think it's blood.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 14

We have to admit this is some of the best director-wants-more acting of all of Trek, right?

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 14

Just got my signed paperback of Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and reread the last chapter. It still tears me up in all the right ways—both meanings. So beautiful and so deeply attached to what it is to be human, alive, and vulnerable. What a wonder this book is.

Cover for Tom Cox’s Everything Will Swallow You. A small white house seems dwarfed by a looming cliffside, but actually it’s the bright spark of the scene, nestled inside draping hills heading toward a sea. On the beach an uncertain looking figure looks out to the sea.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 13

Rock Check! I love it. Found this little guy in my husband’s hiking boot after a trek through the surreal landscape of ‘a’ā lava in Hawaii’i. We call him Dare.

A small, smooth pebble of lava rock. It sits on a vibrant Hawaiian print with a nickel for scale. The black stone is roughly two nickels big.

A robust man in a bright red Hawaiian shirt walks through a barren, rocky lava field. Little does he know the pebble is hitching a ride in his left shoe.

The King’s Highway. A path cutting through an ‘a’ā lava field on the big island of Hawai’i.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 11

I weep for the Caesar city I was never able to construct because, behold, there it is!

Cover for the 1992 city-building game Caesar. Two (I’m entirely sure ahistorical) Roman senators stand in heated discussion. Behind them through an arched window we see a city under development. Since I am the city planner, there are significant distribution problems and the computer Civil Advisor is constantly barking “plebs are needed”. He’s said it so many times that even now, 24 years later, I can still sometimes hear a sharp-voiced man saying something that sounds like “plebs-eh-deeged” randomly throughout the year. Plebs are still needed ‘round here.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 11

Finished Oak and Ash and Thorn by @pfiennes.bsky.social today. A beautiful exploration of trees and their forests and what we have lost and where we should move forward. Also a lovely reminder of how many poems are arboreal. I wish I felt better about our trees and our future.

A recent photograph of the early fall foliage in New Hampshire (US). The photo can never truly capture the wonder of such change and the promise of the spring to come. Always reminded of Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost:

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 3

This poem drove home that exact bittersweetness for me. @roguestrands.bsky.social

THE LAST CARRY
El Paseo Marítimo, Chipiona

You were seven and hadn't asked
for one in months, but the salt wind
had whipped your energy away
before calamares fritos
at our favourite place on the prom
left you woozy, slumped in your seat.

Even as I threw you over
one shoulder and braced for the trudge
to our house, my back was hinting
at a future without your breath
tickling my neck, at you walking
beside us, if we were lucky.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 1

I’m in Fulda Germany and went to two Catholic churches yesterday. They were incredibly hot. In all those Vestments? Ugh. Also, it’s be hard to fit all the viewers in? I did get to see the head of St. Boniface. Martyred 754. Reliquaries are obviously newer.

Reliquaries of Saint Boniface. In the center, his skull. On the sides various other bones like fingers and femurs.

Close up of just the skull, which I admit doesn’t appear very skull like.

Here’s the reliquary of Boniface’s friend Sturmius who Boniface requested found the monastery in Fulda. You can clearly see his skull.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 1

Time to hit the waters (unless iron is verboten to your recovery, of course).

My photo of Glastonbury Well’s lion head spout. Taken in May 2019. All the plants are Avalon green, the flowers are blues, purples, yellows while the spring’s generous water is silvered in the light. I drank so much water that day that my stomach hurt. And I don’t regret it.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 1

As a person with a curiosty like a brain-itch, not being able to google the history of a church like Michaelskirche while I’m sitting in its excellent rotunda makes me sad. I can poke around the wikipedia page (with all its potential inaccuracies), but I fear even that will be lost to us soon.

Michaelskirche. View toward the altar whose date of construction I cannot narrow down in a google search.

Michaelskirche: Rotundra ceilling. No idea if those frescos are recreations or originals from 800s or 1000s or 1800s?

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jul 1

Gorgeous photo. But also, that’s a posture that can really mess up your neck. At least it did for me.

Me demonstrating niralamba sarvangasana (unsupported shoulder stand) during a yoga teacher training course in 2007. At the time of the posture, I felt fine. Three days later I have to see an orthopedic doctor because of a slipped cervical disk. He was not happy about this posture.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 30

I know. We’re sympathizing, rightfully, with the stag. But this hound is not having a good hunt.

A hunting hound having his genitals ground into the dirt by the stag’s back right hoof.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 30

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 28

Finishing Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad today, but looking forward to starting Oak Ash and Thorn by @pfiennes.bsky.social

Book cover. Criss crossing bare branches of trees in grey and teal.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 27

I saw this M.C. Escher piece at an exhibition in London yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. Very koi. Very Zen.

MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER
THREE WORLDS
LITHOGRAPH, 1955

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 26

Eyeliner, when well done as yours is, will always be a highlight to the eye. This is evident across all timelines of art I have seen. Egyptian art? Roman? Indian? Hell, I think I loved my rough collie because her born-in eyeliner was so good.

A rough coat collie puppy with the absolute perfect eyeliner. She’s held on the lap of a driver in the car because she was afraid of cars. She looks scared, but oh so sweet. We went on several drives around the block so she could get over her fear. Her name was Finest Tippy Golden Flower.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 24

I‘d like to know more about this guy. Where did he come from? Where is he going? His turtleneck seems uncomfortable. His lips have many meanings. His word box could contain life’s mysteries or a recipe for excellent hummus. I need to know more.

A sketched person/man in Tom Gauld’s early thoughts for a New Yorker cover. A bald man (person?) drawn like a thumb of a hand-outline turkey from a 5 year-old’s Thankgiving artwork, but with a nose, looks into the middle distance while before him a speech bubble or perhaps a letter floats. He seems to be contemplating some important fact. Humanity hangs in the balance, as they say. But based on his mouth, I cannot tell which way we will turn.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 23

Having just gone to the Schiaparelli exhibition at the V&A in London, I WANT THIS DRESS AND VEST.

Butterfly effect
A kaleidoscope of colourful butterflies, a surrealist symbol of metamorphosis, flutters across the surface of this dress. The garment embodies that season's spirit, described by Schiaparelli as, ‘A song of birds, bees and butterflies woven on summer prints'. The shorter waltz-length skirt, raised 15 centimetres above the floor, was a trend Schiaparelli promoted.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Summer 1937
Paris
Printed silk organza
Philadelphia Museum of Art: 1969-232-49

Home grown
Schiaparelli's colourful pantry of carrots, cauliflowers and radishes offered a witty observation on the changing role of women during the war. Under the German occupation of France 1940-44), French women helped to contribute to their country's economic recovery by growing fresh produce. This dinner jacket was from the last collection Schiaparelli designed before leaving Paris for the USA in May 1941.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Summer 1941
Paris
Rayon crêpe, cellulose acetate velvet, silk embroidery
Philadelphia Museum of Art: 1969-232-17

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 22

I highly recommend The Square Foot Garden by Mel Bartholomew. Excellent source for spacing and crop placement. (oh gods. It’s in its third edition? I’m so old)

Cover for The Square Foot Garden lush tomatoes growing in a square foot bed.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 21

I’ve just barely started Faraway Star by @seanmunger.com. Not enough read to give any assessment, but it starts with a map. I love a map!

Cover for Faraway Star. Two silhouettes stand on a rise facing the sun. On their left is a line of teepee like structures. On their right yurt like structures. In the starry sky above them there’s a purplish planet with bright white rings.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 21

I greatly enjoyed two by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social: The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse.

Book Cover for The Spellshop. The ideal cozy cottage is nestled in some woods at the end of rustic, worn stone stairs. Everything is bathed in a cheerfully sunny golden light.

Cover for The Enchanted Greenhouse. A Victorian style greenhouse is in the distance surrounded by snow covered trees.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 17

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki is breathtakingly good.

The cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. A colorful koi swims in a sea of stars.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 17

There is an answer. Check out Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek by Nana Visitor. There's a chapter about Farrell and her contract issues.

Cover for Nana Visitor's Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 16

We did get scruffy Spock 🖖

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 16

Doesn’t Kirk have someplace he’s supposed to be that ISN’T Enterprise?

Faux book cover featuring Pike looking perplexed and Kirk hovering in the background. The title reads “why are you always on my ship?”

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 16

Reminds me of Snow Crash by Neal Stevenson. A character, Raven, has a government mandated tattoo on his forehead: POOR IMPULSE CONTROL (sorry to the artist whose name I cannot find)

A drawing of the character Raven from Snow Crash. He’s an intimidation man.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 9

Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social. I’ve thought about this book again and again since I finished it. Absolutely stunning book exploring love, loss, friendship, and the wackiness of life and its choices. Just brilliant.

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 8

iIf you have any interest in Viking history, I highly recommend Forgotten Vikings by @alexharvv.bsky.social

Erin Green 🖖@erin-o-green· Jun 7

Although spring is my favorite season, pesto season is always delightful. Every year I’m surprised I grew basil and now I’ll have the magic that is pesto.