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Thursday Entry: Go Into The Woods
We went into the woods, it is life-giving
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Go, but please don’t go if you can’t “Be here.”
I am writing against my own interest. If you go into the woods, it will be more crowded, and less quiet. It will be more trampled, and less beautiful.
Don’t you dare take your dog. Even on a leash she/he frightens off the birds.
If you take your device, I will want to punch you in the breathing parts that you are ignoring: your mouth, your chest, and your living bloodstream.
The more people in the woods, the fewer worlds of woods there are, in short.
But humanity is in big trouble and it’s because we lost our nature.
We lost our inner woods when we lost out outer woods.
My spouse and I needed to remember.
We went into the woods yesterday. It helps soothe the psyche.
If more people could feel what the woods actually is, they could stop trying to fill their empty lives with crap from China, and more time-suck trash on their doorsteps.