oracle of sages ⊹˚₊‧ ˖ ܁

Tash says:

Thanks, again, for stopping by and leaving a message in my guestbook. After reading through your blog, I agree, our journeys do seem quite similar, and I look forward to following along with yours! Also, wishing you all the best in your garden endeavours! 🌱

• Sage replied (Mar 30, 2026): I hope both our gardens continue to grow and thrive 😊 See you around, and happy blogging!

rye says:

hello! i came upon your profile from the bear blog carnival page and i snorted out loud when i saw your "most popular" section. i feel like everyone has their stuff together here and it's refreshing to see someone who's confused (like me) as well! hope u have a good day!

• Sage replied (Mar 23, 2026): Hey, thanks for stopping by! Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I am very much coasting with all amazing things other Bear bloggers have shared for people like me to use (and maybe abuse??? I've messed with the HTML so much that if I look at it the wrong way it all breaks). Robert is a coding wizard in my eyes.

Robert Birming says:

Thanks for signing my guestbook. Love the design tweaks you've done with your blog 😍

• Sage replied (Mar 23, 2026): Hey Robert! You're welcome, and thank you in return! My blog would not look nearly as good if not for your hard work and continued generosity ❤︎⁠

nikki says:

just want to say I fully agree with the concept of virality being hardwired into our brains take. this will be my third time in a row attempting to actually blog more consistently and I just realized that's what's stopping me a lot of the time. not getting any feedback makes me not want to write but also the idea of being seen scares the shit out of me too lol

don't know anymore but i'm glad to read you feel the same!

• Sage replied (Mar 2, 2026): It is so difficult to shake, honestly. I have found myself watching and waiting for the number of toasts to increase on a few entries. I recently hit #1 on the Trending tab, but only had one person reach out to me about the actual post itself. That made the 100+ toasts mean a lot less, in a way. Hopefully we can all keep reaching out to each other!

nikki says:

hi! I just read about your plans to finally starting a garden this year, I wish you luck! I was just thinking about this too but I'm more interested in starting one hydroponically indoors (i'm scared of bugs lol).

i've unearthed one of my old tabletop units and cleaned and restarted it. i've now planted four basil seeds and it's been growing really nicely! if I manage not to kill these ones i'm venturing to adding more plants in the future hehe

i'm excited to see what this year's garden will bring you! looking forward to reading more.

Link: Garden Update #1

• Sage replied (Mar 2, 2026): Hey Nikki! Thanks so much! Hopefully we can harvest a fair few things this year. My partner came back from her trip with a bunch of GIANT pots and planters so we are off to a good start! I wish you luck with your gardening adventures too; I totally understand the whole bug thing. I am not a big fan either, especially not after finding out spiders love making greenhouse gardening gloves their home.

Syahaz says:

Condolences for your dearest car, my mate. 🫂

Link: I've Had a Really Bad Day

• Sage replied (Mar 2, 2026): Thank you :( I'm hoping she's salvageable but the realistic side of my brain is screaming otherwise.

justin says:

I would like fewer things with AI and more cats who are an orb.

Link: STOP GIVING EVERYTHING AI!!!

• Sage replied (Feb 28, 2026): Would you consider cat who is a prawn?

mono says:

hey, i just read your post and i'm really sorry about the bird.

love your blog though, i'm really happy i found it. i like how you string together words, keep on writing!

Link: I Hit a Bird Today

• Sage replied (Feb 21, 2026): Hey mono! That's alright, unfortunately the upside of living in the countryside comes with the downside of the entire roster of noahs arc jumping in to the road at any given moment. I'm sure they're flying even higher now :')
  
  Thank you so much for your kind words! I wasn't expecting a post about accidental bird murder to resonate with people so much. I don't plan to stop blogging any time soon, so I hope you stick around!

Becky says:

Hi, thanks for signing my guestbook earlier. I enjoyed reading your posts and hope you continue to enjoy blogging with Bear. Good luck with your art too!

• Sage replied (Jan 26, 2026): You're welcome! Thank you for signing mine in return :D Hopefully I can actually return to blogging once I stop dying from Office Plague...

SheWrites says:

Thanks for including me on your blog roll! :) I look forward to watching your blog develop and learning more about you and how you see the world. Big props for deciding to make some changes and to return to things you'd let go. I hope we get to see some of your art, and I can't wait to read your book reviews! :)

• Sage replied (Jan 23, 2026): Of course! I found a lot of your entries extremely interesting and look forward to reading more. Thank you so much for your kind words! I am trying not to put a deadline on everything, as that usually just causes action paralysis, so we shall see how it goes. Slow and steady!

Bastiano says:

it was a pleasure to read this post. "I mourn for the days where a town, village, or even street actually knew each-other and cared about its neighbours." this hits the spot growing up in italy, i recall bakeries were pivotal centres of town/village/agglomerate-of-homes life. sure, convenience was already at the doors (it wasn't uncommon to buy bread at the supermarket), but going to the baker at any time of the morning meant - with good probabilities - also witnessing pleasant chit chatter between baker and clients, their hellos, well wishes, serendipitous life updates, laughs, dialect.

now i live in Ireland and find that most bakeries are 'cafes', and i miss that dimension of local-ity. here sometimes I still find some chit chatter in butchers and fishmongers (to my great pain - not in all of them) which is the most pleasant of the feelings.

with the global increase in online-ness, alienation, general bleakness, i wish we could go back to local comfort. we are citizen of a global concerned world, and we should find some respite somewhere, hopefully. maybe we could/should try to find it in the physical space immediately around us; small shops aimed at being part of a community, welcoming, open, not dominated by capitalistic logic.

reading of others longing for a community that could serve each other warms my heart. thank you for your post.

ps. not sure if it was intended, but thought of letting you know your /contact/ page is 404'ing. ._. this reply was meant to be an email to save screen space on your guestbook

Link: The Forgotten Art of Self Sufficiency

• Sage replied (Jan 20, 2026): Hi Bastiano! Thank you so much for leaving this lovely message. I'm so sorry about the contact page, I have a bad habit of procrastinating on details so I told myself I would work on it AFTER pushing out my first post. I see you left your email, so I shall reply to you in more detail there ^^