Nicie Panetta
@nicie.bsky.social
Devoted to books and the biosphere. Rewilder at Northeast Wilderness Trust. Opinions my own.
So much good insight here. Also crying, to which I am generally disposed.
Grace Panetta@gracepanetta.bsky.social · 5mo agoAlysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m
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So honored by this delightful tribute from one of my true heroes @billmckibben.bsky.social to Northeast Wilderness Trust as we attain the milestone of 100,000 forever-wild acres conserved. 🌲 🫎
Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!
Global Irish Survey: Consultation for Irish Diaspora Strategy | Ireland.ie
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is pleased to announce that it is undertaking an extensive consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy.
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Mail carrier brought this gem today. Thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social. Can you imagine asking Keynes for advice on your 401k?
Just finished her audiobook reading of Cranford. Splendid. Also recommend her reading of The Railway Children.
Paging the STW hive, esp. @nonsuchbook.bsky.social! @backlisted.bsky.social is devoting an episode to The Corner that Held Them.
The news is all terrible, but the Post Office’s new baby wild animals stamps are good.
Perfect listen for a summer drive about a perfect summer book. I especially loved @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social idea about “the excess of possibility” that suffuses the web of life. Still thinking about that. 🎧📚
One Bright Book@onebrightbook.bsky.social · last yr.Episode 36 (double chai!) is live! The gang revels in their love for Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS. onebrightbook.com/2025/06/11/e...
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
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100+ year-old magnolia fell down in a storm ~20 years ago at @nationaltrust.org.uk Overbeck’s Garden. Saw it blooming this year!
Richard K Broughton@richardkbroughton.bsky.social · last yr.Tree get knocked down, but tree get up again, ain’t never gonna keep tree down.
“too many souls, like sacks of grain/strapped to my back” Brilliant @bdralyuk.bsky.social for Delmore Schwartz. @nybooks.com
Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
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This is very true in my experience. Went hiking with my team on a 6,000 acre wilderness preserve my organization stewards. The pageant of life was thrilling to behold as spring comes to the Vermont woods.
“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.” —Pope Francis, Laudato Si’
This, by @nicktriolo.bsky.social, himself something of a fleet-footed mystic, on Thomas Merton, rewilding, the ghost of the Iberian lynx, and Portugal’s Coa River, is a stunner. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-smal...
A Small King – Nicholas Triolo
With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and...
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Which one should I read next? Also planning to reread The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald.
The Times / Sunday Times paywall is down all weekend, so here's👇where you can read all my stuff for free, with selected highlights to follow: 🧵 www.thetimes.com/profile/john...
John Self | The Times & The Sunday TimesTwitter Icon
John Self is a freelance writer and book critic. In his previous career he was a lawyer, which like his present role involved the art of persuasion.
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Three studies of a titmouse or a bearded reedling, by Pisanello. Today is his day.
“Trances of thought and mountings of the mind” This glorious illustrated edition of The Prelude by William Wordsworth is my weekend read. From the introduction; “. . . the growth of sympathy and love are nourished from roots in the physical world.”@brandeispress.bsky.social
Many congratulations to the winners of this year's Science + Literature awards, sponsored by @nationalbook.bsky.social + Sloan Foundation:! apnews.com/article/scie...
Authors of fiction, poetry and nonfiction receive $10,000 prizes for blending art and science
Books about a family’s exploration of the natural world, the challenges of parenthood during a time of climate crisis and how animals perceive the planet have won $10,000 prizes for their exemplary bl...
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New discovery: the gorgeous pictures of Han Youngsoo. And great context in the piece including the interesting characterization of “abstract verité.”
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2y agoThe photographer Han Youngsoo, whose photographs chronicle the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, sought to create an archive of working-class society that was unembellished, yet respectful and humanistic.
Kasasagi no wataseru hashini okushimono Shirokiwo mireba yozofukenikeru Wings of Magpies crossing bridge laid with frost I see their whiteness night deepens Chunagon Yakamochi (718-785) Calligraphy by Chieko Magpies and milky way かささぎって不思議な鳥ですよね🐦⬛ #poetry #japanesepoetry #百人一首6番 #かささぎの #中納言家持
I always look forward to Elisa Gabbert’s year-end wrap-up! elisagabbert.medium.com/every-book-i...
Every book I read in 2024, with commentary
I started keeping these notes on my reading in 2015. That means this is my tenth list — ten years is a long time to do anything! In…
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"Then all which had risen over-ripens and rots/ and yesterday on yesterday the year dies away,/ and winter returns, as is the way of the world/ through time." Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on the longest night.
