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you know that emoji with the straight mouth and the two slits for eyes? that’s what i got at my local coffee shop this morning when i excitedly told my barista that the catalpa trees were flowering. the other day, my mailman came to the house to deliver a package too big for the mailbox. i walked out to the truck, and he said “oh, i am glad your here because I didn’t want to get out of the truck. will those bugs hurt me?” there were a dozen dragonflies darting around in the front yard eating mosquitos. i said “no, they are harmless. actually, they are beneficial, they are eating all the mosquitos.” he smiled, but i could see he didn’t believe me. he never got out of the truck. i worry about what will happen in the coming generations if we continue to get more and more disconnected from our natural environment.
catalpa flowers
me too. I worry about this a lot. as a kid of the 60’s and 70’s I felt inextricably linked to nature. there was no dualism – I was part of it and it was part of me, including the mosquito bites, the sand burrs embedded in bare feet, getting stung by sea nettles, the stench of a skunk, and the smell of blooming plants and their distinct fragrances.