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Merry Christmas and Boxing Day!
See you next week!
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Thursday Seeds | Mourning with the Doves
What’s your first thought? Mourning with the Doves. That’s what is sounds like…when Doves cry. But if you know much about birds, and doves are more common than most but not as much a nuisance as pigeons or crows. They make a sound that is lonely and communicates solitude to most humans. It’s like it’s hardwired, this sound being considered lonely but in fact, birders know that this sound is about mating. It’s a mating call given right before sex. It’s foreplay, this sound to the doves. If you watch them, the one doing the calling is about to hop on the female to do the “deed”. Crying. Hopefully I…
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Thursday Seeds | Eat Yer Bacon
Bacon is bad for you. Bacon is good for you. Bacon is meat and it also contains sulfites and too much sodium and back in the day before refrigeration, it was one of the only ways you could eat meat that wasn’t freshly killed. Kill the animal. Kill the idea. Kill the grammar police and the spelling bee. Kill the switch. Kill the witch. Kill the fatted calf. Kill the hog. Swim with the hog. [insert picture of paradise island where pigs swim in clear blue waters.] Lord of the Flies…. I just read that one. Somehow I escaped it as required reading in English class. Not the Illiad or…
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Thursday Seeds | Think of the Forsaken
Who are the Forsaken? Those that have come and gone? Those that have been forgotten? Those that lack something: food, money, attention? Those that lack….home and all its comforts. Those that are never discovered. Why are they never discovered? Premature death in the timeline. Crossroads moment that changes their trajectory from you. Are they really forsaken if you never meet them? Perhaps it’s only You who are the forsaken then. Because I never met [this person], I am forsaken. But then also, so are they! For it is a yin and yang. If you never meet me, then I never meet you. We both lose. Nameste Think of them.…
