A tree among snows.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Day: February 13, 2019
Caveat: Poem #927 “As machines will do”
ㅁ Bits of shredded trees all embedded in slopes of frozen mud and snow testify to the assaults committed by machines impelled by profits hungry for wood devouring churning wants.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: 5 Years Mapping and Naming
[This is a cross-post from my other blog.]
I failed to commemorate my 5th anniversary on OGF. I mapped my first node on January 31, 2014. Maybe there were a few nodes mapped before this, but they have been deleted, and they were on that same date. Puerto Desolado was my first OGF town.
Only today, I felt a moment of nostalgia.
I keep working, slowly, on Makaska. One thing that’s important to me: the “native” names in the state are the pseudo-fictional Rakhoda language. This is just an alternate name for the Dakota language, as spoken by the native peoples of southern Minnesota in the pre-European era. So all the native names of the state are actual Dakota words. Hence when mapping, I keep this hand book on my desk:
Music to name things by: Sioux Honor Song