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Hunting for Autumn Leaves

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4h

Another wonderful essay by Leanne Ogsawara

Hunting for autumn leaves

dreaminginjapanese.substack.com/p/hunting-fo...

#Japan #Ikebana #waka #fall

紅葉狩り

dreaminginjapanese.substack.com

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 5h

The Word for World the Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin

Looks like a wonderful exploration

www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

#design #maps #AA #London #LeGuin

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 5h

Design books

The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander

www.patternlanguage.com/bookstore/na...

#Booksky #books #desgign #designbooks #order #creativity

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 5h

from Burnt ~1990s

brown glass winters
content, the paralyzed
transparent self seems
real, if effort
dispelled. would quiet
the light. flattering
the middle distance
curves beyond you.

#poetry #place

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 5h

1st lines

Come, lay out the world with yourself,
come, let me fill you all up with
all that's mine

one with you I am,
to capture us,

even now.

Paul Celan from Timestead Zeitgehoft tr by Pierre Joris 1970

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 5h

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Languageages into the future in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Languageages into the future in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.

#Booksky #2books #YA #England

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

from Burnt ~1990s

our lady’s keys
restoring beauty
once its lost,
with linseed oil
will heal burns

circumference full
measure, the water
Slops, cowslip
around the brim
her garden ends.

— For Susan Yarrow

#poetry #place

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

1st lines

Falling rocks behind the beetles
There I saw one, he didn't lie,
home-standing into his desperation.

As the solitude-storm did for you
so does wide-ranging silence
succeed for him.

Paul Celan from Snowpart Schneepart tr by Pierre Joris 1970

Fracking’s Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC | The Tyee

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

Fracking's Water Demand Soared in Drought-Plagued Northeast BC by Ben Parfitt via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

#Canada #BC #fracking #climatechange

A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.

thetyee.ca

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 2d

Design books

Issey Miyake can teach us about innovation in tradition.

us.isseymiyake.com/products/iss...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #fashion #Japan

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

from Burnt ~1990s

part of itself
repeating. part
of the day
made longer then
itself is lost.
the rest allowed
is part of
what we share.
held less than
equal. the even
infinite regress, a
hum subsides.

#poetry #place

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

1st lines

Wallslogan

Disfigured - an angel, anew, stops dead -
a face comes to itself,

the astral -
weapon with
the memoryshaft:
attentively it greets
its
thinking lions.

Paul Celan from Snowpart Schneepart tr by Pierre Joris 1970

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Alan Garner takes one deep into the English country side and into memory.

#Booksky #2books #YA #England

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 3d

Design books

Innovation Design: Creating Value for People, Organizations and Society by Elke den Ouden

Why do Springer books have to be so expensive!

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks

Carver Mead - Analog VLSI and Neural Systems | PDF | Electronic Circuits | Electrical Network

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

A few years ago I gave away my copy of Carver Mead's Analog VLSI and Neural Systems. Now I find myself wanting to reread it. Fortunately I could find a virtual copy.

www.scribd.com/document/719...

#VLSI #design #innovation #neuralsystems

Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site.

www.scribd.com

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

from Burnt ~1990s

iron quiet water
in the mountain
din. the rare
earth’s actual presence
in the air
glows hard and
softening. each morning’s
chill deeper in
the rock. the
distance further in
time. elapsing.

#poetry #place

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

1st lines

I remember when we fled the rebels
heading north through danger and hardship

starting out on foot
in the middle of the night

with the moon shining
over White Water Mountain
...

from Du Du 杜甫 The Pengya Road David Young translation around 758

#poetry #1stlines #China #DuFu #resistance

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Alan Garner takes one deep into the English country side and into memory.

#Booksky #2books #YA #England

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

Found a new koji product at Fujiya in Vancouver.

Preparing food with koji (a type of mold) has been a revelation over the past year.

I am finding this more versatile than shiokoji liquids.

#cooking #koji #Japan #Vancouver

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

from Burnt ~1990s

cold clod stick
shaped even less
its balance gone.
trees all under
the water surface,
part of it
past, present in
the ground soft.

#poetry #place

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 4d

Design books

Elements of Parametric Design by Robert Woodbury

www.routledge.com/Elements-of-...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #parametricedesign #patterns #designpatterns

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

1st lines

Up here it is almost as though
we stand astride the sky

a fierce wind
never ceases blowing

an since we human beings
are never far from fear

climbing this may well
stir up a few new terrors
...

from Du Du 杜甫 David Young translation around 755

#poetry #1stlines #China #DuFu #resistance