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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 exhausting ordeal of taking my children to do 1 (one) activity out in the world

nathanlovestrees,
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@redoak I only have one but I feel this in my sore and aching bones

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a mind of one’s own

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@iraantlers the rooms have minds

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Feeling vindicated somewhat… Finished the introduction to Father Time (I’m a slow reader and am busy caring for people) and it’s basically the argument I made in my masters thesis in 2018. From Hrdy: “men exposed to cues from babies tend to be more other-regarding and generous. Might baby-exposed men also come to prioritize the well-being of children—and the planet—above their own social status… Men first needed to be able to imagine themselves as nurturers as well as protectors and providers.”

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the metal chair at this coffee shop has made some disconcerting noises twice in the last five minutes. I fully expect to be on the floor soon

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Are there any myths, narratives, stories, etc.—religious or otherwise—about men as caregivers? I’m very ignorant of what’s out there. The only ones that comes to mind, strangely, are the Homeric Hymn to Pan (19) and the way Jesus talks about children in the synoptic gospels. Any and all suggestions or ideas are welcome!

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@BsCreativeLife oooooh the ents! Tree herders (said in Merry’s voice)! Thank you 🙏

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@NatureMC wow these are amazing! Thank you 🙏

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but this potato beetle proved falsehearted

#beetle #insectodon #insect

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@asl lmao why is this so perfect???

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50% off nature books from Princeton University Press (code is FIFTY)

https://email.press.princeton.edu/take-50-off-nature-books-2?ecid=ACsprvszt1yyFgnbnEP4gCr4HEK1YWiJiHPiVIi22hMSzpYfuhb58rKl2Tcn_xcY3s2PLWqiP3hp&utm_campaign=Colleen%27s%20Campaigns&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=307449043&utm_content=307449043&utm_source=hs_email

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dragonfly not letting the bees stop her from playing on the slide

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orogenous zones

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probably not the best joke but orogenous zones is one of my favorite puns

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throwback to Brood VIII in 2019

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currently bogged down (positive)

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bee play delay

@loren

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“My unexpected finding is that inside every man there lurk ancient caretaking tendencies that render a man every bit as protective and nurturing as the most committed mother.”

Sarah Hrdy, Father Time

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1/ As I was doing some research for an essay I’m working on I realized something pretty amazing about Thoreau: when he left Walden in September 1847 it was, among other reasons, to live with Emerson’s wife and children to help care for them and the house while Emerson traveled around Europe.

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2/ Walls puts it this way in her biography of Thoreau: “More prosaically, he left because he was called away by someone he could not refuse—Lidian Emerson. Waldo was planning a yearlong lecture tour in Europe, where interest in Transcendentalism and in Emerson himself was growing. As late as August 29, it still appeared that Lidian would board with a friend while her husband was away, but suddenly she invited Henry to live with her and the children instead.

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3/ [cont.] Thoreau's life at Walden had been Emerson's greatest gift to him; if his friends needed a favor in return, he would say yes… As Waldo's ship disappeared over the horizon, Lidian and Henry returned to Concord to take up housekeeping together.
Thoreau the hermit was history. Never again would Henry live alone.”

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4/4 What’s really interesting to me is not only the way this challenges the misguided but popular mythology about Thoreau’s time at Walden (self-reliant sylvan misanthrope) but the way it strengthens the truer mythology of his life (which I recently wrote about here https://medium.com/bookish-nook/the-genius-of-the-wood-0a97929dfcb9 )

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this fungus beetle pleases me

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sorry TLC

A small waterfall between large boulder and fallen branches. The water is blurred

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flora from yesterday’s hike

A single brittle bladder-fern (I think) growing from a large mossy boulder. Fern is in the sunlight while the boulder is shaded.
Wood sorrel flower and leaves
Great scented liverwort growing on a rock near a waterfall.

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was reading a kid’s book about space tonight and my son (4) asked if we lived in the Milky Way

“Yep, the Milky Way is our home galaxy”

“Does it spin really fast? Because I don’t feel like I’m spinning really fast”

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