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As I grew to understand the gift of the earth, I couldn’t understand how “love of country” could omit recognition of the actual country itself. The only promise it requires is to a flag. What of the promises to each other and to the land?
— Mar 24, 2025 08:19PM
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The young and old are linked in one long breath, an inhalation that calls for reciprocal exhalation, nourishing the common root from which they both arose. New leaf to old, old to new, mother to daughter - mutually endures. I am consoled by the lesson of lilies.
— Mar 19, 2025 02:40AM
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When I stare too long at the world with science eyes, I see an afterimage of traditional knowledge. Might science and traditional be purple and yellow to one another, might they be goldenrod and asters? We see the world more fully when we use both.
— Feb 24, 2025 07:08PM
