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Daily Discussion Thread: 🦊👱‍♀️ Saturday, August 10, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hugs. If you can roll yourself up somewhere in the sun I recommend it. You aren't alone in your feelings.

I read On The Beach a few years ago after the 2020 bushfires and at the start of COVID when I was feeling particularly hopeless. Basically its a classic about an impending nuclear winter - what happens when everyone find out they have six months to live. One of the side characters just carried on tending their little garden, planting out things that they would never harvest and in all probability would never grow. But it was her job - to tend her garden and she figured no-one knew any would be next so she might as well do this thing. She was totally at peace. I think about her a lot when I am in this headspace.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are green places to be in the sun nearish me, but too far to walk, and I don't want to be around other people much so a tram would be a bad idea I reckon.

I had read some of it a while ago, but lost my place and never bothered to refind it. Might have to give it another look some time, because it's a great book. I wish I had the certainty of a set date, honestly. Six months is easier to handle than "it's a mystery"