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 A mycorrhizal matins chorus

#Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Fungiverse #MorningMushrooms

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 These past two days were the first two of the new co-parenting schedule and the first two my son and I spent at my new place; tonight is the first night I will be spending away from my son at my new place. I cannot describe the heartache. 

We went to the park today and watched a great egret catch a meal, painted turtles sunning on logs, collected leaves and acorns, dug holes in the ground, and tried to catch frogs. Excuse me while I go wash dishes with my tears...

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 The great thing about living here is you never have to worry about missing spectacular celestial events: it will always be cloudy so you will always miss it; no need to worry. 
 As I struggle to live a more enchanted and animistic life, and to nurture those innate tendencies in my young son, I find the two things that trip me up the most are the automatic use of "it" to refer to nonhumans (he/she is only slightly better but not always applicable) and not knowing how to talk about death in ways that aren't completely disenchanted and mechanistic (we found a dead snake yesterday in the woods). Any ideas? 

#animism 
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