8 FEB 2025

Township Park, PM. Ice and thunder. The ground is treacherous to step on, I have to keep my weight on my back leg before stepping forward. Thick ice covers even the bare tree roots deep in the woods. The only things not covered in a layer of ice are my body and hair and the […]

7 FEB 2025

Sawmill Creek, PM. This landscape is very disturbed; there are active gas wells in this nature “preserve.” The trails aren’t trails so much as they are dirt roads used to access and maintain the gas wells. Not many big trees, almost all are very young; largely maple and beech, though there are some patches with […]

5 Feb 2025

The Genius of the Wood

We, sighing, said, “Our Pan is dead;His pipe hangs mute beside the river;—Around it wistful sunbeams quiver,But Music’s airy voice is fled.Spring mourns as for untimely frost;The bluebird chants a requiem;The willow-blossom waits for him;—The Genius of the wood is lost.” Thoreau’s Flute, Louisa May Alcott I was first introduced to Thoreau in a high […]

30 Apr 2024

I recently learned about, from the book, The Wheel of the Year: An Illustrated Guide to Nature’s Rhythms by Fiona Cook and Jessica Roux, the Celtic holiday Beltane. I’m a little surprised and disappointed in myself that I am just now learning about this. It is celebrated on May 1st, or halfway between the vernal […]

22 Feb 2024

I’ve been reading Tyson Yunkaporta’s new book, Right Story, Wrong Story this morning, and, as all his work does, a complex web of feelings and thoughts have been evoked within me as a result. In particular, I am musing about signs and symbols and relationships and meaning in the land. He mentions “Something,” a concept […]

20 Feb 2024

As I was doing some research for a longer post I’ve been working on I remembered (or was reminded of) a little passage in the Zhuangzi and made a Mastodon post about it. The passage is from the end of chapter 7 and is the conclusion to a longer story: After this, Lieh Tzu concluded […]

14 Feb 2024

Stumbled on this passage from Thoreau’s first book (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers) about the sachem Passaconaway, which reminded me of some other passages I’ve been collecting on what I perceive to be similar themes. In these parts dwelt the famous Sachem Pasaconaway, who was seen by Gookin “at Pawtucket, when he […]

10 Feb 2024

Not too long ago Ian MacKenzie, host of the Mythic Masculine, asked a question on his substack about who he should interview and what questions or topics he should address in the new year. I responded: …I’d love more about caregiving, both mythical models of care and mythical ways to imagine masculine caregiving. I’m a […]

9 Feb 2024

I have been thinking about adding a section to this blog where I share unrefined fragments in an unpolished way, something like a journal I suppose. I’m unsure about its value, both to me and to anyone else, but I nonetheless want to try it out.

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Thanks Nathan. I really like that. I was exposed to gestalt psychology early on. And it has had a similar effect on my life. The Esalin institute used to have good books on exercises based on gestalt psychology. How about learning to experience the things that you don't normally.

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A great example of powerful art bringing understanding of man’s true relationship to nature.

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In reply to <a href="https://freeanduneasy.blog/disability-in-the-wild/#comment-11">Tim Lowly</a>. Thanks so much Tim, I appreciate you taking the time to read and share it! I am a big fan of your work, and even though the primary relationship I relate to your work through is a sibling relationship, not parent-child, I feel there is something in your work that captures that experience better than anything. It can be isolating and lonely, caring for someone, and I often find myself wishing I knew more people who could relate to that. Your work gives me that sense and that is something I deeply cherish. Thank you again for reading and I hope you and Temma are doing well!

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Thanks for sharing this post with me on IG! It had been sent to my spam folder and I just found it. "Temma on Earth" has certainly elicited a variety of (of sometimes rather strong) reactions / readings). I particularly like the way your understanding / reading of the painting shifted over time. I just made a post about your piece on Facebook and will likely do one on IG as well. Peace, Tim Lowly

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