Nate Shivar

Read the full post at - Bend On Conasauga River This bend is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead.

Read the full post at - Atlanta’s Night Skyline from Fort Walker

Read the full post at - Forest Service Road in the Chattahoochee National Forest

Read the full post at - 6 Underrated TV Shows of The Last 10 Years I like to keep track of the books I read.

Read the full post at - The best financial advice I can give you is to sell your car This post from Hanna Horvath is such an incredible piece on the *total* costs of car ownership -> https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/the-best-financial-advice-i-can-…

Read the full post at - Flannery O’Connor on Teaching Literature In most English classes the short story has become a kind of literary specimen to be dissected.

Read the full post at - Ordinary Abundance What a beautiful website & a beautiful reminder of the absolute abundance that many of us live with compared to our very recent ancestors – https://ordinaryabundance.com/ If we could have devised an arrangement f…

Read the full post at - US Energy Cost Explorer US Energy Cost Explorer is a classic website that takes open, publicly available data on energy costs and makes it usable, useful & interesting – https://energy-maps.com/ Takeaways Energy is truly a state-le…

Read the full post at - 5 Notes on Georgia State Astronomy’s Observatory Nights Georgia State University owns an observatory in Hard Labor Creek State Park, about an hour east of Atlanta.

Read the full post at - America’s Driving Mandate: Don’t Call It “Freedom” In the beginning, there was public right of way – the freedom of movement between & amongst property.

Read the full post at - The Individuals Who Championed Each National Park Over the past few years, I’ve been able to visit a few of America’s National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and other public lands in addition to reading several excellent histories.

Read the full post at - 3 Useful Radio Resources for Streaming Live Even in a world of Spotify, YouTube, Podcasts, etc – I still think radio is deeply underrated as a communications medium.

Read the full post at - The End of an Era [for Writers] via Hugh Howey I thought this post was an evergreen take amongst the white hot discourse -> https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ His outline on how writing is changing has changed is directionally

Read the full post at - A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird Derek Thompson interviewed Agnes Callard about the idea of the unicontext.

Read the full post at - Roadless Rule Area Interactive Map I don’t love posting about current events, but this resource is timeless -> https://www.onxmaps.com/onx-access-initiatives/roadless-rule The short version is that the Roadless Rule is a management…

Read the full post at - 5 Reasons You Should Use Mozilla Firefox for Your Browser I’ve been watching the browser wars play out for over 20 years now.

Read the full post at - TIL about Prairie Remnants This infographic from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota explains how much of the Earth’s prairie ecosystem we’ve lost over the past couple of centuries.

Read the full post at - TIL about the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s land classification system The United States has the oldest and most formalized system of managing public lands.

Read the full post at - TIL About The Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Exhibit 5000+ that Jimmy Carter was a brilliant President -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Conservation_and_Recreation_Service The Heritage Conservation and Recrea…

Read the full post at - Clearing Blowdown on Conasauga River Trail Clearing Blowdown on Conasauga River Trail The most satisfying parts of volunteering with a Forest Service Trail Crew (specifically the amazing Cohutta Wilderness Trail Volunteers) is the…

Read the full post at - Doing More is Often Easier Doing more is often easier -> https://www.raptitude.com/2025/04/doing-more-is-often-easier/ At the time, I didn’t yet see the general principle: always be curious about what’s just beyond your usual stopp…

Read the full post at - The open web as gift economy Beautiful essay -> https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/ I got online in 1997, when I was in middle school.

Read the full post at - It’s All a Blog.