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“Where are your pagan gods now?”

Gardening

Comforting your abandoned dead

Reclaiming

Rerooting

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the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you. their branches still whisper your name in the breeze and their roots remember the paths your feet once traced through their shade.

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When I say "connect with nature" I don't just mean the aesthetic forests with deer and beautiful flowers.

I mean the weeds growing through concrete, the fungus that grows on the rotten shed, the nettles that always seem to return and the scary, spindly cellar spider in the corner of the bathroom.

Nature is not always pretty or magical - the pigeons and seagulls you swat at are nature too, the wasps and flies that hover by your meals are animals too, store-bought strawberries and the leaves that fall from your neighbour's tree are not all that different from the Giant Sequoias and it's seeds.

If you want to connect and understand nature, I mean *really* connect to it, in it's entirety, you have to seek out and learn about the ugly, scary and mundane things as well. You don't have to like it, just don't forget that it's there.

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2010

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3200 iso photos

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last night’s walk.

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pink

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The Vision of Saint Hubert (1890)

— by Franz von Stuck

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Winter Lace

Lawrence, Kansas

Instagram

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gorgeous stairs in an abandoned farmhouse

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The Hand of God

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6.2.25

Nikon ZF - Nikon PF 300mm F4