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AlexanderMick's avatar

"Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads.

Pass the lone church spire. pass the talking wire from where to who

Knows?

There's no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western

Plains."

-10000 Maniacs, Gold Rush Brides

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Jane Finette's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing Mike... so wonderful. I love this line.. "..pass the talking wire from where to who Know? " :)

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Emily Woodbury's avatar

Only connect - E. M. Forster

Connect with humans, with sloths, with titmice, with moss and mountains, with fungi, with sunlight, with warts of your own body. We are all interconnected, one being. There’s no separation once we’ve been claimed and claim all. You know it, Dear Jane, with your beautiful whole self.

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Jane Finette's avatar

Oh that’s so beautiful Emily! Thank you for sharing. I hadn’t heard that before! So wonderful! And I adore the idea of being claimed. Perfect! 😍

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Emily Woodbury's avatar

I’ve claimed you 🤗

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Maggie Schroeder's avatar

Jane, it brings me joy to know that you have found such a deep connection with your adopted home. And the connection is rooted in your natural surroundings rather than in man-made creations.

I was at Harvard's natural history museum this weekend. There is an incredible exhibit called "Glass Flowers". The works of art by Czech glass artists are so beautiful and precise you think you are looking at real flowers. But, for me at least, they are missing the soul of nature that you have found...and that is available to all of us if we just take the time to notice.

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Jane Finette's avatar

Thank you as always for being in touch and for noticing. Try as we might... us humans just cant replicate the way the outdoors makes us feel. It's in our bones and blood. Maggie.. its so funny that it's started to dawn on me.. how much I am becoming part of the land here.. like I'm being woven into it's threads. It's incredible and a little disconcerting too. I'm learning to surrender :)

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Jerramy Fine's avatar

i love this. i love you. and i love that painting!

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Jane Finette's avatar

Hey thanks so much dear one. I know you know this place better than I ever could. Love you with all my heart - ever more xoxox

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Michal Berman's avatar

Love this beautiful post

Very relatable to me. Yes indeed I think it is being with nature that we experience or taste transcendence

Thank you for sharing. And what a great drawing/painting! How fitting

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