Pretty lookin cabin (off the unyoked website)
Like a teaser trailer sorta thing
uploaded: 2025-11-14
I recently went away to one of those Unyoked cabins. I'd been once before and I saw a few books that I immediately gravitated toward. One of those books was Cabin Porn.
Pretty lookin cabin (off the unyoked website)
But the other one I glanced at was Tristan Gooley's How to Connect with Nature. I didn't really get a good look at it the first time, I think I was sick or something, but I picked it up, flicked through, and put it back down. I was determined to pick it up again, maybe at a library, maybe get a copy for myself. It's published as a part of Alain de Botton's School of Life.
It's short and sweet (137 pages), but feels like it spans so much. Gooley shows us how nature can be a guide for us. Time, both in the large and in the small, means something different in nature. Midday isn't 12:00pm, it's when the sun is at highest point in the day [1].
I'll write a fuller set of thoughts on the book later but I picked some of the quotes that I liked the most and wrote them down. I picked one of these quotes, and I typed it up on the typewriter!! [2]
I'm still figuring out how to use the machine (and I'll write about typing later too lol) so you'll have to excuse the mistakes. Here's the quote.
The world around us is morphing; it is a shape-shifter.
"The world around us is morphing; it is a shape-shifter. Colours, smells and sounds swirl through daily and annual patterns, putting on displays then disappearing with the promise of returning in new clothes. There is the regularity of the solar drum behind all the changes, but this regularity passes through the individual kaleidoscope that is locality. Time both makes sense and delightful madness of each place and moment. The only certainty is that you will only get one opportunity to experience each scene exactly the way it is. It will be different if you return in ten months or ten minutes."
[1]: In this vein, I can begin to understand why certain countries demarcate seasons with very specific dates as opposed to the first of certain months.
[2]: Yes I have access to a typewriter. Yes I'm super stoked about it.