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Oh I love this SO much ❤️❤️❤️ thank you. Giving Mary Oliver!! Felt my chest open

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Beautiful. It reminds me of something the poet David Whyte said - that we are the only species that has a choice to opt out of engagement with the (and here I struggle to find the words) what we call “nature” or “the environment.” As if it’s separate from us. (And having written that, I’m suspicious of anything that starts, “we are the only species that…”) 😂

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Fucking beautiful. And love - no respect (which is love in action, I think) - your slow walk to meet the right words. To ditch communication for communion. Your opening paragraph achieves it - the waking world - then shares the communing with us, unfurling "details"; moments of our lives held up in the soft morning sun.

Abstract, uncareful words leave wounds, both personal and worldly. Thanks poetry for reminding us how to heal and fight, yes, but thankyou more, Rob, for standing still and listening. Thankyou for caring.

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Wow, Peter. I really appreciate that. Thank you.

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This is utterly beautiful!

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Thank you Fotini!

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