nature
November 22, 2009
- Years ago, when my ideal situation fell apart, I had a nervous break down. My 'nervous system' literally broke down. My entire body ceased to function properly, and all I could move were my eyes and mouth. It scared me. It was the time that I turned my life around, which has taken me a decade to sort out. I stepped out of my failed situation and started building from ground zero ~ The ...
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November 21, 2009
- As I hung out a wash the other day, part way through, a crow settled on the upper branches of a tree. A few clothes later, another crow, another branch. Some clothes later, a third crow but lower. Nearing the end of the line two more crows ambled across the sky, looking things over. I came in.
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November 13, 2009
- A few weeks ago I stopped in a great independent book store in La Jolla California called D. G. Wills and found some great books in the stacks . . one of them was "My First Summer in the Sierra's" by John Muir. Written in 1896 it was a wonderful book of the way things were and the way they still are. . .some people want to save the environment from harm by living small and being aware ...
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November 5, 2009
- About an hour before dawn, howler monkeys woke with grumbles and grunts that eventually gathered enough volume and resonance to become full-blown roars. From my narrow bed in the second-story dormitory room, I heard the entire chorus but since this was my first night in the rain forest, I had no idea what I was listening to. I thought that someone downstairs was suffering from a really bad ...
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November 4, 2009
- The world, in which we live today, has become so permissive, that we see put into practice the most unthinkable experiences, and people behave in the most foolish way. Are we ready to accept, one day, the consequences of the craziest of our actions? We think that Nature, which has never been mishandled as it is the case today, would never strike back. But this assumed certainty seems to be ...
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November 1, 2009
- When I was young, I would often walk with my head hanging down. There were quite a few reasons I did so; the one that stands out is that I focused on all that was wrong in my life and could not imagine anything good, or beautiful, happening to me. In the last few weeks, I’ve notice a lot of people walking as if they are studying the cracks in the sidewalk. I wonder about the sadness in ...
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October 29, 2009
- For the past three days, a bat has been swooping and fluttering and looping above the pond outside my window with that distinctive short-bodied, herky-jerky flight that one normally only sees at dusk or on spooky, moon-filled Halloweens. At first, I found this bat to be spooky: daylight flight is contrary to the nature of bats and hinted of perhaps a deeper problem. Bats are notorious ...
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October 29, 2009
- October 29 PIECES OF SKY The sky falls in pieces and clutters around my feet. Scattered are the moon, stars and sun. Fear and desire have consumed all the rest. Great tides of resentment wash away reality and replace it with illusion and propaganda. What am I to do when want drives the course? Satisfaction is unknown; the luminous butterfly I believed extinct has not yet come to ...
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October 23, 2009
- Memory is a slippery thing, changeable and ultimately as inconsequential as hope. Sensual memory -- the slide of a fingertip along the curve of a back, the scent of burning leaves, the tang of high-bush cranberries after the first frost -- is more substantial, with its roots in the viscera instead of the mind.Last week's snow and cold have been soothed by the warmth of Indian summer. The ...
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October 16, 2009
- Well, so much for giving blogging serious attention ... But I have been writing!!! Some of you may have already checked out my website about Earth Horoscopes. If you haven't here's an article I recently wrote: http://www.themodernpagan.net/?p=543 If you believe in our connection to the eath you will probably enjoy it. I've love to know what your Fantasy Sign turns out to ...
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