insatiable
The muses top off the watering can so that they can bring relief to the parched.
“Look!” Thalia points at a thick web on the underside of the hose reel. “Charlotte dined on centipede!”
Calliope looks past the leggy carcass.
Something small and brownish is moving.
Nearly eyeball to insect Cal sees wiggling antenna and… legs.
“It looks like a… baby turtle.” Cal turns to Nia. “Should we… rescue?”
Nia picks up a wood chip and extracts the critter from the web. “Charlotte won’t starve. Look! It has a — shell!”
The trio removes as much sticky stuff as they can before placing the tortoise beetle on a boxwood leaf.
“Even thooooo National Geo-graaaa-fic won’t be calling for our art work anytime sooooon — we shorrrrr zoooooom-d it with our cur-eee-ahhhhh-si-tee!”
Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.
~Wilt Chamberlain
I have no special talents.
I am only passionately curious.
~Albert Einstein
Note from Loveletterist:
This morning I came across the word 'biophilia' and looked it up: a hypothetical human tendency interact or be closely associated with other forms of life in nature: a desire or tendency to commune with nature
How cool is that?
Also... My friend Mark wrote about turtles and tortoises:
https://open.substack.com/pub/3musesmerge/p/insatiable?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Justin wrote about biophilia!
https://alongthehudson.substack.com/p/birdsong-746?r=19lbt&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
And Jason wrote about NOTICING!
https://weirdopoetry.substack.com/p/the-messenger?r=19lbt&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." ~John Muir
Terr-iff-icc! Shimmering with facts and possibilities!! I’ll admit this creature being other than a mini-spider with a turtle resemblance was jarring for a bit. Later reading calmed my “feelers” as I read of the caterpillar’s special feature for collecting and piling frass for camouflage! A loader machine with the bucket on the back end. Nature.
Now that you explained “biophilia” I’m certain I’m a biophile. On evening dog walks I can commune with owls; on most other walks the eyes of ground spiders bouncing back the light of my LED headlamp attune me to their presence.
The quotes by Muir and Einstein were terrific! (Izzie nodded her head in the affirmative on this😁) Sometimes I picture your loveletters as being the thin, tapered needles used during an EMG. Both deliver smartly chosen stimuli to test our reactions! 👏🏼👏🏼