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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

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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! 👏🏼👏🏼

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