One-winged wasp

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wilderness is within you my friend

assuming you have a healthy gut microbiome

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we live in a time of signs and wonders

known as the present moment. a moment in which a tiger swallowtail might be bugging off but you capture it anyway in a good-enough-for-the-internet photo on your phone

E.T. was prophesy man i mean look at us now we are all extra, extra terrestrial man, just always phoning home. I guess that’s what it means to be terrestrial

a log i’ve stepped over hundreds of times was garnished today with these distinctive-looking cup fungi which i have never seen before in my life

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it’s interesting to consider how much or how little work the word “natural” does in a phrase such as “natural smoke flavor added”

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mayapples may not ripen until August it turns out, on extremely rare occasions when the local wildlife doesn’t get to them first

tastes may vary but to me a mayapple tastes less like an apple than something that may or may not be made with apples—like a junk-food version of an apple, with a very different texture in the mouth

not at all bitter, like wild lettuce

but nothing i’m going to make a point of seeking out the way i go after sassafras for example

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when i last saw her this one-winged wasp had walked all the way up to her nest in the rafters

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walking up the road after dark to look at the stars, but the road is full of winking glowworms—how can the sky compete?

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