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nathanlovestrees

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Someone once told me I'm too sincere to be funny.

Full-time caregiver to a disabled brother and father interested mainly in Thoreau, Zhuangzi, animism, Kings of Convenience, and drinking tea.

Master's degrees in music theory and theology (nonpracticing), classically trained and folk musician (also nonpracticing), and I once organized and helped plant over 800 trees on abandoned mine land (I do still plant trees occasionally).

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“More and more I want to offer that most people don’t get the privilege of ordering their initiation off the menu.”

https://sophiestrand.substack.com/p/chronic-pain-is-psychedelic

nathanlovestrees ,
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@8ofpentacles I loved this from her… she once again says what I think but puts it way better than I could ever hope to

Alice_Swaggen , to random
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Croccoli

nathanlovestrees ,
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@Alice_Swaggen broccodile

nathanlovestrees ,
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@Alice_Swaggen see ya later cauligator, after while broccodile

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“The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature,—of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,—such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun’s brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

from ‘Solitude’ in

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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[cont.]

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?

LoganFive , to random
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Me when someone asks for pineapple on their pizza.

nathanlovestrees ,
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@LoganFive lowercase m and no period is how I would have done it

nathanlovestrees ,
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@LoganFive yeah millennial, and I think all of that generally is true but I sometimes communicate differently depending on the person and context and what my aims are. I am not funny at all and also struggle to find the right punctuation and word order because I think I’m trying to mimic a style that is foreign to me or that I missed out on (which generally seems to be either intentionally indifferent or ignorant about these things)

nathanlovestrees ,
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@LoganFive my personal opinion is that it has less to do with a gradual relaxation of formality and more a willful rejection of the rules and mocking attitude towards older generations imposing them

nathanlovestrees , to random
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the heat makes me lust for cold, sugary beverages

babe , to random
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Christian conservative trying to follow a titties account. That checks.

nathanlovestrees ,
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@babe to be fair one of the old Hebrew names for god is related to the word for breasts so maybe he was just doing some research

( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Shaddai )

mush , to random
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in my next phase of life i am aiming for 9th place in Mario Kart

nathanlovestrees ,
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@mush which version??

nathanlovestrees ,
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@mush me too! I like that one and the n64 one the best. I always pick yoshi

nathanlovestrees , to random
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tank tops are great when it’s hot but my farmer’s tan is severe

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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@GimpyGurl @PeterWyrm then I’ll give at least one arm a little more sun haha

18+ Alice_Swaggen , to random
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Go outside
Find cool bug
Have a good time

nathanlovestrees ,
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@Alice_Swaggen you’re going to demolish everyone at the thumb wrestling competition

nathanlovestrees , to random
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pushover or daoist master?

nathanlovestrees , to random
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cold brewed longjing:

10g longjing leaves
1000ml water
leave in fridge overnight
enjoy

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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@ceeg hope you enjoy , let me know how it turns out!

nathanlovestrees , to random
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openennui

nathanlovestrees , (edited ) to random
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midsummer is upon us, may we burn today

(image text in replies)

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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1/ The text from the image reads:

The sun stands!

The sun stands at the height of the sky, stands at the apex of the bowl of heaven forged by the Great Smith at the beginning of time - hammered out by the Great Smith when the world was born, when the hills rose and the land knitted itself together out of chaos and the seas filled with the blood of creation.

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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2/ The sun rises!

It rises to the crown of the skull of the primordial giant, rises to the hollow brow of the old one. Across times, across ages, the world stands still as the sun rises on this longest day.

nathanlovestrees OP , (edited )
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3/ In a stone circle, those gathered from scattered settlements fall silent, one by one, as the eastern sky slowly pales, and the clouds blush, and the first rays slice above the dark hills. As human sounds fade to silence, the birds find their voices, and a multifarious fluting sings the bright orb up over the horizon, crowning the heel stone.

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4/ Far away, an old person gathers herbs at dawn this sacred morning, the seventy-seven lucky herbs to make medicines for all diseases, even for the nameless disease.

Their steps are slow and reverent as they wander alone where the forest meets the meadow, each movement of foot and hand and sickle a prayer as the first rays of the winking sun turn the morning mist to a luminous, billowing blanket, and the sun reaches up over the trees, and the sleeping world is suddenly flooded in light.

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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5/ The sun climbs!

Young women cast blossoms into the moving streams and read their auguries as they follow the racing waters, forever rushing on into the future.

From houses nearby drift the smells of fruit and flowers and the warm aroma of round yellow loaves almost ready for the festival tables.

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6/ The sun moves!

Carried in its golden chariot, drawn by golden horses, it wheels its way across the great plain of the firmament as the day turns - languidly, exultantly - toward evening.

And so the longest day stretches out across the hemisphere, lazily, as if it could have no end, until at last it wanes down gently, so slowly, toward this shortest, sweetest night.

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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7/ And outside each village, just beyond the boundary between the known and the unknown, bonfires rise up lustily, crackling, hissing, and across the lands young lovers turn to one another in the blue dusk and the ruddy firelight, and old folks reach out their hands to the warmth, and children, up past bedtime, run shrieking like wild animals, and music pours out from under the dark trees -

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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8/ - and everything - everything - glows, pulses, burns, filled to bursting with sun and scent, ripe with sweetness like a summer fruit, warm, warm with the heat of the sun, the blazing, glorious, unconquerable sun.

And so do we, each one of us, burn and glow and rise and set, and light our own fires, and join with our loved ones, and make our own ways across the spans of our lives, and blaze as brightly as we can before we too go down into night.

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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9/9 May we burn today.

In the face of all sorrows, may we rise, golden and shining.

In the height of our power, may we stand, strong, together.

“Summer Solstice” by Ilana Hamilton

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locomeans
locomotive
locopportunity

mush , to random
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transhumanist transhumance

nathanlovestrees ,
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@mush transhumorist transhumus

nathanlovestrees ,
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@mush beautiful. I hope to be humus hummus myself

nathanlovestrees , to random
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think I should get this mole checked?

nathanlovestrees , to random
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riding on the cuyahoga valley scenic railroad

nathanlovestrees , to random
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New The Japanese House single today

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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@vapaad exactly!

nathanlovestrees , to random
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you must be sick of cake by now, what with all the having it and eating it too

nathanlovestrees , to random
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no you’re a fecal sac

nathanlovestrees , to random
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owl be watching you

nathanlovestrees , to random
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don’t be fooled

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loren , to random
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loam sweet loam

nathanlovestrees ,
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@loren loam is where the heart is

nathanlovestrees ,
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@loren I’ve got friends in loam places

nathanlovestrees , to random
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memory floss

nathanlovestrees , to random
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edits post for grammar

makes it worse

nathanlovestrees , to random
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what if all this time Allen was trying to tell us not that he possesses that hummingbird but that he is that hummingbird?

nathanlovestrees OP ,
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I am completely sober in every way

loren , to random
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soil triangle that's all loam

nathanlovestrees ,
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@loren kinda funny how a lot of people my age used to play with floam but now they garden and only care about loam

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