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Randall
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posted February 19, 2020 09:36 AM
  
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Randall
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posted April 02, 2020 04:32 PM
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Randall
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posted May 19, 2020 05:15 PM
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Randall
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posted July 31, 2020 10:04 AM
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mirage29
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posted July 31, 2020 03:49 PM
There's a relatively young oak tree that I pass whenever I go for walks around my neighborhood. I discovered how to use the camera in my ipad. Took it on my walk yesterday... took a picture "inside" the aura and branches of this tree ... and found that I had captured a Wonderful Sun Flare bursting through the spaces of branches.  I've hugged that tree.
I've said prayers around that tree. The photos are alive and Stunning! (music) Trees (perf by Mario Lanza, 1952)
[2:40] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtfX7pVBiM TREES by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by people like me,
But only God can make a tree.  (music) I Believe; w You'll Never Walk Alone   
(Barbra Streisand, Higher Ground, lyrics)
[6:43] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCH97efMeD0
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Chanterelle
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posted September 05, 2020 12:18 AM
I was reading something recently in an old copy of a paper called the Katuah Journal about tree readers: people who can “read” their spirits in some way, or recognize certain trees as being gateways to other realms. I’m curious... IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted September 10, 2020 07:51 PM
 (topic) Communing with Trees
("5 Minutes with Dr. Svoboda", Feb 10, 2017)
[4:35] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshtD47X_aM yt notes quote
Dr. Svoboda discusses developing a deeper relationship to Nature by understanding how the natural world communicates and aligning yourself accordingly.
He also talks about one of his favorite books,
Kinship With All Life by J. Allen Boone. IP: Logged |
Chanterelle
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posted September 11, 2020 07:37 AM
Love it! Definitely putting that book on the list. I think the hardest part for me might be choosing just one to focus on long-term. The lightning-struck poplar, or the twisty leaning sourwood, or the beech by the creek with the branches hanging down, or the nearby oak with the widest crown, or the 4-trunked oak on the top of the ridge? Yeah, of course the one calling is the longest hike.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted October 08, 2020 04:02 PM
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Chanterelle
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posted October 19, 2020 05:50 PM
Picked up a fun fact over the weekend: if you come upon a tree in the forest that has a much wider crown than all the others, even if it’s not substantially taller or thicker than the ones around it, chances are it’s older and marks an old property line or at one time stood alone in a clearing. It’s called a wolf tree.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted November 06, 2020 03:50 PM
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Chanterelle
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posted November 23, 2020 08:17 PM
I just spent 2 nights sleeping in a debris shelter I built out of sticks and leaves. I got drizzled on at 4 am, but it didn’t even matter... I haven’t slept that soundly in a very long time! The whole forest is like one big blanket on the Earth... and now that almost all the leaves are down, the sky is so much more visible. I’m just feeling very grateful for all the elements right now, and the whole wide world that carries on beyond our strange little human dramas.IP: Logged |
Chanterelle
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posted January 03, 2021 04:36 AM
I walked to the top of the ridge before sunrise on New Year’s Day; the sky was cloudy but the moon was bright enough that I only needed to turn on my flashlight for a moment while crossing the creek. I was trying to walk quietly, pausing every time I got too clumsy, and at one point I startled some deer into fleeing — they got up and ran at my first step after one of those pauses.
I found a perfect spot just inside the tree line, facing East near the base of a 3-trucked chestnut oak, and gathered some rocks for a fire circle by kicking around a couple of mounds made by the upheaval of roots from old fallen trees. That went quickly enough that I decided to set a goal of getting a fire started with 3 matches or less by full light. I did not succeed— more care needed with the tinder bundle (Eastern redcedar bark, shredded and balled up). Went back yesterday and spent several hours collecting more stones — working on a big fire circle with a little oven corner. I just need to find one more perfect flat stone and a few more small ones. Some of these stones, it’s so easy to imagine that they might have been shaped by human hands. IP: Logged |
Chanterelle
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posted March 05, 2021 09:14 PM
I found some animal scat with bones and hair and a whole bird’s beak in it up by my mailbox today— I think it must have been a bobcat! That’s the second similar sign I’ve seen; last week I came across a flat rock with feathers matted into the moss, and a much smaller pile of scat nearby. Hiked to the waterfall for the first time this year... the alder catkins are poofing pollen on the millpond, and the water was as high as I’d ever seen it. We crossed on rocks and went back up on the far side; an enormous hickory tree had fallen since my last visit, and I found some sedges and starflower growing in what looked like half an old bleach jug. There’s slippery elm nearby too; I’d like to go back and harvest a few strips of bark when the sap is up soon.IP: Logged |
Chanterelle
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posted March 07, 2021 11:07 PM
Highlight of the weekend: an activity where we walked blindfolded in the woods at night, navigating our way back to camp by the sound of a drumbeat. Some of the time I ended up imagining I was a raccoon.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted March 25, 2021 01:53 PM
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Randall
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posted April 13, 2021 01:33 PM
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Randall
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posted June 07, 2021 11:39 AM
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Eternal Energy
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posted June 26, 2021 01:04 AM
First Evening / by Arthur Rimbaud
Her clothes were almost off;
Outside, a curious tree
Beat a branch at the window
To see what it could see.
Perched on my enormous easy chair,
Half nude, she clasped her hands.
Her feet trembled on the floor,
As soft as they could be. I watched as a ray of pale light,
Trapped in the tree outside,
Danced from her mouth
To her breast, like a fly on a flower. I kissed her delicate ankles.
She had a soft, brusque laugh
That broke into shining crystals -
A pretty little laugh. Her feet ducked under her chemise;
"Will you please stop it!…"
But I laughed at her cries -
I knew she really liked it. Her eye trembled beneath my lips;
They closed at my touch.
Her head went back; she cried:
"Oh, really! That's too much! "My dear, I'm warning you…"
I stopped her protest with a kiss
And she laughed, low -
A laugh that wanted more than this… Her clothes were almost off;
Outside, a curious tree
Beat a branch at the window
To see what it could see.
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Randall
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posted July 16, 2021 11:38 AM
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Randall
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posted August 09, 2021 04:10 PM
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Eternal Energy
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posted August 09, 2021 05:53 PM
When I get back home, I will go to my tree. The last time I was there was about a month ago. I was sitting in the balcony with my loving friend when I read something. My body suddenly started to burn. My hands suddenly started to burn. I had to go to the tree and touch it. I remember putting on my shoes, running down the stairs, getting out of the house, heading straight to the forest, walking fast, almost running to get there. To be released. My loving friend had followed me until a certain point and then flew away and disappeared deep in the forest. I know the tree is still there. I don't care how it looks. I just want to go there.IP: Logged |
Eternal Energy
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posted August 09, 2021 05:56 PM
One day "First Evening" shall seize to be just a poem.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted September 10, 2021 05:38 PM
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Randall
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posted February 26, 2022 08:12 AM
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