i love celeste. so much.

Saw this on Pinterest but wanted to share bc actually I have had a physio recommend this to me and it’s been amazing!

Walking backwards strengths the muscles around your knee (esp the quadriceps, which you will definitely feel if you do this) but doesn’t put the same strain on the joint as forward walking or running. It’s very good for your balance, coordination and patellar tracking, all important to reduce knee pain, support your knees and can help rehab knee injuries.

I do it on a gym treadmill, usually at 1.2 km/h (but I’ve seen anywhere from 0.8-1.6 km/h recommended, which is like 0.5-1.0 mph for the Americans). You can start with a very slight incline and then slowly increase it 5% as you get more comfortable, and to help engage the muscles. I usually do this for 5 to 10 minutes, 3-4 times a week. My understanding is that you can also do it outside, either on flat or sloped ground, because just walking backwards itself is useful as hell (the incline is just useful to engage muscles more as you get more used to it)

Revolting little machine I hope someone guy fawkeses you too.

play like a white onion

from the Lavender and Red Union, a group of communists who wrote this in 1975.

methuselah is a great basin bristlecone pine and the oldest tree in the world at over 4,800 years old! since the actual tree’s location and appearance isn’t known to the public, i decided to add the purple pinecones and pine leaves even though it’s very unlikely that he has any. however you can visit his home at the ancient bristlecone pine forest in california!

and pando is a very old aspen clone and one of the largest and heaviest trees in the world! aspen trees most commonly reproduce asexually by root sprouting, so they’re all technically the same tree

i love them very much :’)