@coudal.bsky.social

Easily distracted. OK with that.

Is the river the water or the shape? When the bombs go off and the liquid boils, is the naiad vaporized? Or does she wait in the banks, in the soil, for a spring to fill her again

Remembering Roberto Clemente's 3000th hit. But where's the exact bat he used? "Objects have stories, too. Puzzles that need to be solved. Like a pair of baseball bats, for instance, that each passed through Roberto Clemente's hands..." [kottke.org]

Remembering Roberto Clemente’s 3000th Hit

This story by Kevin Guilfoile about his aging father (who worked for the Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame) and the mystery of what happened to the bat that Roberto Clemente got his 3,000th hit with is one of my favo

kottke.org

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

A River Reborn – Ben Goldfarb

Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan trace the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River, after four of its most obstructive da...

emergencemagazine.org