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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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nathanlovestrees, to random
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[opens window to let trapped wasp get back outside]

[two more fly inside open window]

nathanlovestrees, (edited ) to random
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ingress/egrets

nathanlovestrees,
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@ira ingots/egots

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but this potato beetle proved falsehearted

#beetle #insectodon #insect

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when the compost place that sells us by compost/soil/mulch by the truck bed full says "oh I'm not going to write you a sale ticket, we know you, just drop off your check up front"

we may come here too much

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@vapaad we may come here too mulch???

paris, to random
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“words mean things,” yes, but sometimes we must also weigh that again the fact that we live amongst other human beings, and sometimes being definition-right is the same thing as being a fucking asshole.

nathanlovestrees,
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@paris I am reminded of something the Zhuangzi says, that the meaning of words is unfixed, so not only do words mean things but those meanings are unfixed and change and transform constantly

nathanlovestrees,
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@paris “Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?

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@paris What does the Way rely upon, that we have true and false? What do words rely upon, that we have right and wrong? How can the Way go away and not exist? How can words exist and not be acceptable? When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words rely on vain show, then we have the rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right.”

from Ch. 2 of the Zhuangzi, Watson translation

nathanlovestrees, to newmusic
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Finally, the first album from Erlend Øye and La Comitiva is out today. A perfect summer soundtrack:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6l187RCxp0fG5k0hdXxVOQ?si=crkHkm7vTmmwYi51whicrg

#NewMusic #ErlendOye

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the poison ivy is beautiful this time of year

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First wood thrush of the season. A momentous day on my calendar.

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I occasionally watch some legend of zelda streamers on twitch and in the one I was watching earlier the one guy told some of his followers (responding to the live chat) that he loved them (“thanks, love you bro”) and it made me feel, dare I say it, hopeful? it sounded sincere and I was honestly moved by it

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Evidently, Darwin himself had once considered the possibility of a “maternal instinct” lying latent in males. But, lacking corroboration from twenty-first-century neuroscience, he set aside what is perhaps the most prescient of all that great naturalist’s intuitive leaps, the idea that “the secondary characteristics of each sex lie dormant or latent in the opposite sex, ready to be evolved under peculiar circumstances.”

from: https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/sarah-blaffer-hrdy-on-father-time

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#ThursdayFiveList #TheOpener

Cinderella (from Memory Man) by Aqualung https://youtu.be/7Rog4hR6zic

Square One (from X&Y) by Coldplay https://youtu.be/j37GED-AR3M

Atlantic (from Under the Iron Sea) by Keane https://youtu.be/lUN8fn4ir1Q

The Hollow (from Mer De Noms) by A Perfect Circle https://youtu.be/CjMU60FZETY

Nice to Know You (from Morning View) by Incubus https://youtu.be/iVWPFq_VAMg

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indigo blunting

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mourning dived

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Virginia pepperweed

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grey catbird and green frog having a conversation

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“Let us ask the briars and thorns and roses to give us better dreams”

nathanlovestrees,
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(Sophie Strand in The Flowering Wand)

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subaltern is a good word

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“Ecstatic naturalism locates god within the infinite and oftimes bewildering worlds of nature natured. Insofar as the divine life is approachable phenomenologically, it is as manifest inside of and around the edges of the world(s) of orders. The primal distinction between nature naturing and nature natured is more capacious than the subaltern distinctions between being and non-being, or god and world.”

from Deep Pantheism by Robert Corrington (I should finish reading this)

nathanlovestrees,
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The primal distinction within an ecstatic naturalist metaphysics is that between nature naturing (natura naturans) and nature natured (natura naturata). In what follows I will define nature naturing as “Nature perennially creating itself out of itself alone,” while nature natured will be defined as, “The innumerable orders of the World.”

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[cont.] Note that this ontological distinction prevails within and as the one nature that there is and does not comprise two separate realities with one being more “real” or foundational than the other. Nature naturing and nature natured belong together in the fullness that is nature in its encompassing. We approach the Encompassing whenever we consciously and deliberately attain a more expanded view of nature and its innumerable orders.

Deep Pantheism, Robert Corrington

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@altlife 😍

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