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nathanlovestrees

@nathanlovestrees@disabled.social

Someone once told me I'm too sincere to be funny.

Full-time caregiver to a disabled brother and father interested mainly in Thoreau, Zhuangzi, animism, Kings of Convenience, and drinking tea.

Master's degrees in music theory and theology (nonpracticing), classically trained and folk musician (also nonpracticing), and I once organized and helped plant over 800 trees on abandoned mine land (I do still plant trees occasionally).

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The best thought is not only without somberness—but without morality. The universe lies outspread in floods of white light to it. The moral aspect of nature is a disease caught of man—a jaundice imported into her—To the innocent there are no cherubims nor angels. Occasionally we rise above the necessity of virtue into an unchangeable morning light—in which we have not to choose in a dilemma between right and wrong—but simply to live right on and breathe the circumambient air.

#Thoreau 8/1/1841

nathanlovestrees,
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I am serene & satisfied when the birds fly & the fishes swim as in fable, for the moral is not far off. When the migration of the goose is significant and has a moral to it. When the events of the day have a mythological character & the most trivial is symbolical. For the first time I perceive this spring that the year is a circle—I see distinctly the spring arc thus far. It is drawn with a firm line. Every incident is a parable of the great teacher.

18 April 1852

nathanlovestrees,
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@iraantlers lovely resonances!

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[opening a heavy book and turning it sideways]

“Dad look, I’m looking up birds on my computer!”

nathanlovestrees,
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My son also claimed one of @loren nuthatch stickers (though he called it a penguin at first 🤣)

nathanlovestrees,
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@loren good mail day

nathanlovestrees, to random
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licentious libations

nathanlovestrees, to random
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Ok, kinda annoyed in a good way (maybe). Watched the new Bluey episodes with my son and the whole farmer lost his horse story is from the Huainanzi, chapter 18 I think. It’s one of the Daoist (or Daoist adjacent) stories I’ve been wanting to turn into a kid’s story for a while now. They beat me to it. I’m annoyed mainly because I do not like the way they used it but also because now if I do ever do anything with it everyone will think oh you got that idea from Bluey smh

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The end of this tea was better than the beginning. The more compressed center had more camphor and floral notes, less licking a wet stone (though that is still present). It's not a great tea, but I absolutely enjoyed it

nathanlovestrees,
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@tfb I concur and always buy a few cakes when I order from Yeeon because despite its flaws I just enjoy it so much haha

nathanlovestrees, to random
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may all your feet be leaves

nathanlovestrees, to random
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no, you’re a leaf-footed bug

nathanlovestrees, to random
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happy mushroom day

nash, to random
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a cow is specifically a female bovid taurus. so it goes without saying that to be a "cowboy" is inherently genderqueer

nathanlovestrees,
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@nash trying to think of a reverse cowgirl joke now

nathanlovestrees, to random
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Watched all the Ghibli movies that seemed age-appropriate for my 4 yo so took the risk the other night to watch Nausicaä and he freaking loves it. This is the 4th time we’ve watched it since Wednesday. And I love that he’s explaining to his grandmother (my mom) what everything is

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Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me
sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up

Sappho, fragment 130

nash, to random
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2 Iron 2 Wine

nathanlovestrees,
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@nash 2 Simon 2 Garfunkel

nash, to random
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you paid 40 thousand dollars? for a warhammer??

nathanlovestrees,
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@nash everything’s a warnail when you only have a warhammer

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the wind is fragrant

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Now I want to edit a collection of Thoreau’s most sensual and romantic writings

nathanlovestrees,
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@ira someone else? later?? hahaha

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Thoreau lived in the Emerson household twice in his life (I think). After leaving the Emerson household for the first time to live on Staten Island in 1843 he wrote a letter to Lidian Emerson: "The thought of you will constantly elevate my life... It will be something always above the horizon to behold, as when I look up at the evening star. I think I know your thoughts without seeing you, and as well here as in Concord. You are not at all strange to me."

nathanlovestrees,
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Interestingly, in 1849--after his trip to Maine--he wrote in his journal about Lidian (well, there's evidence to suggest it is about Lidian though it doesn't explicitly say): "I know her in spirit and in truth. I can more heartily meet her when our bodies are away. I see her without the veil of the body... When I love you I feel as if I were annexing another world to mine. We splice the heavens.. Whose breath is as gentle and salubrious as a zephyr's whisper. Whom I know as an atmosphere..."

nathanlovestrees,
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I want to spend some more time with this (just made these connections this morning) but I feel like there is something significant here...

nathanlovestrees,
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@toridas_ yes!!!! I have been thinking about Thoreau as a Dionysian figure lately. It would be really cool to try to read the Thoreau/Waldo/Lidian triangle alongside the Dionysus/Theseus/Ariadne triangle…

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ao3 atla, hurt/comfort, cabbage vendor/cabbages

nathanlovestrees,
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@moss I know atla and cabbages lol but I don’t understand the rest haha

nathanlovestrees,
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@moss ohhhhh bahahahahaha I get it now and that’s hilarious

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