These cats have lived a life of great danger and adventure, obviously.
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if you have never spent time breathing in an oak leaf…
I would urge you to do so as soon as possible.
It is like the scent of freshly mown grass, aged for a hundred of years until it is clean deep wise warm green.
After a storm the other day I found some large oak leaves on the ground at McCorkle Place. I tucked three into the notebook I carry in my purse, which lately serves more as a receptacle for found leaves and feathers than as a notebook.
I thought it might be interesting to play with some printing using the leaves. When I got home that evening and opened the notebook to retrieve them, the scent of the leaves burst out and overtook me.
Now, when I walk through McCorkle Place, I can pick out the oak smell.
I imagine I will become an inveterate leaf sniffer now.
I had a nice dinner at my friend’s new house tonight. I took my Vitamix over and made Krank Juice while he whipped up some vegetables we ate with soba.
Now a thunderstorm is rolling in.
sing me a line from your favorite song.
Hello, imago.
on my front porch tonight.
Ok, so the cicada is not as dainty and pretty as the butterfly, but I think it is a much better symbol of transformation, as it spends years living underground, living off the roots of trees before emerging:
Cicadas live underground as nymphs for most of their lives, at depths ranging from about 30 cm (1 ft) down to 2.5 m (about 8½ ft). The nymphs feed on root juice and have strong front legs for digging.
In the final nymphal instar, they construct an exit tunnel to the surface and emerge. They then molt (shed their skins), on a nearby plant for the last time and emerge as adults. The abandoned skins remain, still clinging to the bark of trees. (src)
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