Yeah, like the bird.

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Horse tails are weird as hell and I love them

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Diamond Valley Lake, California

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I never was able to identify this mushroom, but do I ever love its purple cap. 9/17 at Hemlock Bluffs, North Carolina

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I think you’re right!

On another note:

Nature is not ‘more pure’ or ‘more spiritual’. The bacteria that cause disease are natural. Wasps that lay their eggs in other creatures and devour them from the inside out are natural. Earthquakes are natural.

Technology is not ‘less spiritual.’ If it exists, someone is going to use it in their practice. The god/s can speak to us through whatever medium they choose. An online altar is still an altar.

The world is bigger and weirder than your dichotomy.

The idea that hive minds in sci-fi have queens or some other central apparatus like a mother ship makes no sense at all. That completely defeats the purpose of a hive mind, which is decentralization. 

It speaks to kind of society we live in where it’s generally assumed that unity is achieved through domination only. 

The way we talk about bees and ants suffers from this too. The queen in an ant colony or beehive plays an important role but doesn’t do Any actual leadership. All the coordination bees and ants do is completely decentralized. I’ve always thought it was funny how much people project our society onto nature.

Paradise meadows - Mt. Rainier

Sunrise at Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland (by Andrea Heribanova)

Cindrel, Romania Adrian Borda

If you’ll be experiencing the eclipse on Monday and were wondering if there is a berakhah for that: there totally is.

I wonder how much the different movements view on saying a blessing for an eclipse because today at shul we were talking about how in the Talmud there is much discussion about how a blessing shouldn’t be said for a solar eclipse because they were seen as a bad omen.

Not bringing it up to discourage people from doing it - folks should go ahead if that’s what works for them and different philosophies would have different viewpoints on if the Talmudic ruling - but I think the full picture is interesting!

Oh interesting - my reform synagogue said there was not a bracha *specifically* for an eclipse.

My rabbi actually sent out an email to the congregation about judaism’s association of solar eclipses with bad omens, and ended it by providing this blessing. I think he said something like that even if it’s a bad omen, it’s still a sign of god’s wonder and power.

Fly agaric - Syniad Photography

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Antarctic sponges live on a time scale we can barely comprehend. 

UPDATE: WHAT THE FUCK

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it took me 3 times reading this post to realized that (wild) meant living in the wild and wasn’t just a casual remark on the longevity of these organisms

Maximum longevity: 15,000 years (shit dude)

Peek a Boo Rainier… (by Jeremy Cram)

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Appenzellerland, Switzerland | by Marcel Schiegg

~ a few weeks ago Troy took me to this little forest with a river and a field of these wildflowers which were taller than I am! 🙈🌻✨

The Khasis are a tribe in India that grow their own bridges. For generations they have passed down the art of tree-root manipulation, forming centuries-old ‘living bridges’ out of the powerful roots  of the Ficus elastica trees. Source Source 2 Source 3

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