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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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iraantlers, to random
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“With its circle of warmth, the fireplace had once been the center of family life. It’s dancing light, smoky smells, and a warm crackling created an ambience that made a house more a home. And the traditions around the hearth stretched back through the ages, connecting each house to deep cultural roots. How might the solar house incorporate some of the richness of the hearth? What were the qualities of the hearth that made it so wonderful and beloved?” (1/2)

iraantlers,
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@ira @nathanlovestrees https://mastodon.online/@iraantlers/112356213775199383

iraantlers, to random
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treeline in rain

CTGT, to Birds
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Momma wants a feather bed.

Tree Swallow

asl, to random
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The is complete!! Isn't he just a walking blueberry?

iraantlers, to random
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enjoy the rot, you dirty rotter

kristiedegaris, to Artist
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I rarely do, but I'm selling some prints. Five of each image below (for now).

First image as a 12 x 12 (inches) and second as A4. Fine art giclée prints on Hahnemühle Bamboo. Both the images were shot on film.

(Sorry about the international postal charges, shipping costs have gotten pretty out of control).

https://kristiedegaris.com/print-shop

RadicalAnthro, to random
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Got our mits on it! And chuffed to get mentions in the text!

RadicalAnthro,
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Interview with Sarah Hrdy
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/sarah-blaffer-hrdy-on-father-time

vapaad, to random
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Robin Wall Kimmerer is releasing a book titled The Serviceberry Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World this November!!

I just heard about it, so very excited.

nathanlovestrees, to random
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1/2 “We are as often injured as benefited by our systems, for, to speak the truth, no human system is a true one, and a name is at most a mere convenience and carries no information with it. As soon as I begin to be aware of the life of any creature, I at once forget its name. To know the names of creatures is only a convenience to us at first, but so soon as we have learned to distinguish them, the sooner we forget their names the better, so far as any true appreciation of them is concerned.

nathanlovestrees,
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2/2 I think, therefore, that the best and most harmless names are those which are an imitation of the voice or note of an animal, or the most poetic ones. But the name adheres only to the accepted and conventional bird or quadruped, never an instant to the real one. There is always something so ridiculous in the name of a great man,—as if he were named John Smith. The name is convenient in communicating with others, but it is not to be remembered when I communicate with it myself.”

18+ AimeeMaroux, to 13thFloor
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It's the here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"Note that the ancients used the word phlyein (to luxuriate) of an abundant yield of fruit. So they called Phleon (the luxuriant), Protrygaios (the first at the vintage), Staphylites (the god of the grape), Omphakites (the god of the unripe grape), and various other ."
Aelian, Historical Miscellany 3. 41

🏛 Relief of Dionysos with a thyrsos and grape clusters

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology

18+ asl, to isopods
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There are fancy . As in, ones people collect for fancy. Ornamental roly-polies. Pet pill bugs. Purebred wood lice.

I'm not about to buy $210 Green Laser Isopods, but A. Maculatum... 👀

I'm so happy to know this exists.

sarahgoldcrest, to random
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My favourite thing about spring is the ferns unfurling

A close up of a single green fern branch, the leaves at the tip are still curled tightly
Another shot similar to previous
This one is not unfurled at all, but you can see it trying!

18+ AimeeMaroux, (edited ) to 13thFloor
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Let's have fun with a poll: Who is the best dad on Mount Olympus?

Comment if your choice is not among the options!

@mythology ogy@a.gup.pe

18+ AimeeMaroux,
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@nathanlovestrees A favourite of mine as well! 💕

"Then luck-bringing Hermes received him and took him in his arms: very glad in his heart was the god. And he went quickly to the abodes of the deathless gods, carrying his son wrapped in warm skins of mountain hares, and set him down beside Zeus and showed him to the rest of the gods. Then all the immortals were glad in heart and Dionysos Bakkheios in especial; and they called the boy Pan because he delighted all their hearts."

lzg, to random
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i like that Butler touches on this book on the fact that biology and social construction are not separate, but interactive. we are the embodied relationships with our social and material environment. it’s not possible to talk about our biological sex or our gender while disregarding these relationships.

nathanlovestrees, to random
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I wrote a brief little thing about why I still love reading Thoreau for the anniversary of his death today (May 6, 1862)

https://freeanduneasy.blog/the-genius-of-the-wood/

gutenberg_org, to books
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American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau died in 1862.

In addition to "Walden," Thoreau is well-known for his essay "Civil Disobedience," which was inspired by his 1846 arrest for refusing to pay poll taxes as a protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War. His political writings later influenced many political leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Books by Henry David Thoreau at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54

Original title page of Walden, with an illustration from a drawing by Thoreau's sister Sophia. Title page of the book "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" by Henry D. Thoreau, featuring an illustration of a small cabin surrounded by trees. The page includes a quotation and the publication details, "Boston: Ticknor and Fields. MDCCCLIV (1854)."

gutenberg_org,
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

Letter to Harrison Blake, March 27, 1848. As reported in: Familiar letters (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906), p. 164

~Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862)

skinnylatte, to Korean
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"Bilingual Mandarin and English speakers living in Singapore also showed a preference for left to right mental time mapping over right to left mental mapping. But [..] also quicker to react to future oriented pictures if the future button was located below the past button – in line with Mandarin. Indeed, this also suggests that bilinguals may have two different views of time's direction – particularly if they learn both languages from an early age. "

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221103-how-language-warps-the-way-you-perceive-time-and-space

kristiedegaris, (edited ) to photography
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Wild
Medium Format Film

toridas_, to random
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Does anyone use handmade personalised calendars? I don't know if that's a thing, but I'm throwing this out hoping that it'll find someone who knows this stuff. I'm not talking about a bullet journal, just a calendar, but a layered one, with all sorts of stuff that one might find useful and interesting on a daily basis, stuff varying from person to person, and handmade (that can be hand sorted and illustrated or designed and printed).

ljwrites, to random
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What are some lively metaphorical expressions about awareness and knowledge that are not explicitly or implicitly ableist? I'm fond of "can't make heads or tails," for instance.

iraantlers, to random
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happy high holiday.
(art by Ken Gun Min)

Forestofglory, to random
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I wrote a post about all the classical Chinese textbooks that I've tried!

https://forestofglory.dreamwidth.org/353686.html

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