Naturalism comes ... well, naturally, I think. I prefer walking alone so I can take as long as I need to investigate what I come across. Also, people tend to think I'm weird because I talk to the plants and creatures I see. You can walk the same exact path every day, and every day it will be different. Yet so many don't notice that.
Exactly that--people seem to have forgotten how to be in nature, how to walk and, indeed, talk to those things you see. I do the same. Every path is different, in space and time and for each individual, and this will be a very large part of the second season of AWE.
Whenever we're out in the car, we always play a family game of "Araucaria", each of us trying to be the first to call out any Monkey Puzzle trees we see. Auri has been joining in recently and, if she gets any, she calls these wins her "connections". Today, walking in the woods, we were both spotting butterflies, and she announced (in that casual dictator-like way that four-year-olds have) that we must now also start to "play connections" whenever we see any butterflies. I also have a copy of The Amateur Naturalist (picked up on one of our many charity shop trawls in Wick, I believe!); I imagine (and hope) both Auri and Elfi will enjoy reading it when they get a little older!
We actually also play 'Araucaria', especially when we were on our way to Portugal, there were many there!
I love that she calls them connections, and that she has determined butterflies should also be connections, it makes a lot of sense to me. Wise child, that one.
It is a great book (I'm currently having to borrow it from the Internet Archive, rather than flicking through an actual copy. However, this led to my discovery that there are different international versions, with extra photography for each, with the local fauna and flora (eg the US version is different, as is the Japanese version). I loved this and now am determined to find and collect them in every iteration I can... One day.
I'm sure Auri and Elfi will love it, you'll have to show Auri the photo of my miniature bottle terrarium/garden, that's something you could all do together (I'll maybe write how I did it, pretty simple and all free!).
Thanks for commenting, I don't go on about it, but I really miss your voice as per the olden days of Good Twitter. I do think you'd like Notes, it is so calm and peaceful, compared to what we have become accustomed to, and I know for a fact you'd love a lot of what is shared there, and I also know that if you did use it, your contributions would be well-received. (Like I said though, I do understand why you don't!) xxx
I know, I really miss the (positive) engagement from Twitter, and I miss the many interesting and interested voices that I found there. Even on Facebook, way back when! You know my thoughts on Substack etc, but I may well dip a tentative toe into Notes. I'm mulling it over! xxx
I am really finding Notes to be a place of positivity and joy. Maybe I went into it knowing to mute certain voices immediately (I rarely see politics on my feed, for example), or maybe it is simply because it started out almost exclusively as a place for newsletter writers to talk. Now, there are more readers appearing, which is a very good thing indeed.
Your voice would be a strong addition to Notes, but I absolutely understand your reasons! One thing I've noticed is that, like the Good Old Days of Twitter, the majority of my feed is full of women, not all of it, there are some wonderful men and non-binary voices too, but I find it interesting that those who talk about things I am interested in, those who I respect the most, are predominantly women. Earlier on Notes, I saw a lot of men suggested on my feed, but many of them wrote about crypto, or investing, or American politics and, frankly, that ain't my scene.
You should do some quality lurking, and I think you'll be pleased with what you see! xxx
Naturalism comes ... well, naturally, I think. I prefer walking alone so I can take as long as I need to investigate what I come across. Also, people tend to think I'm weird because I talk to the plants and creatures I see. You can walk the same exact path every day, and every day it will be different. Yet so many don't notice that.
Exactly that--people seem to have forgotten how to be in nature, how to walk and, indeed, talk to those things you see. I do the same. Every path is different, in space and time and for each individual, and this will be a very large part of the second season of AWE.
Whenever we're out in the car, we always play a family game of "Araucaria", each of us trying to be the first to call out any Monkey Puzzle trees we see. Auri has been joining in recently and, if she gets any, she calls these wins her "connections". Today, walking in the woods, we were both spotting butterflies, and she announced (in that casual dictator-like way that four-year-olds have) that we must now also start to "play connections" whenever we see any butterflies. I also have a copy of The Amateur Naturalist (picked up on one of our many charity shop trawls in Wick, I believe!); I imagine (and hope) both Auri and Elfi will enjoy reading it when they get a little older!
We actually also play 'Araucaria', especially when we were on our way to Portugal, there were many there!
I love that she calls them connections, and that she has determined butterflies should also be connections, it makes a lot of sense to me. Wise child, that one.
It is a great book (I'm currently having to borrow it from the Internet Archive, rather than flicking through an actual copy. However, this led to my discovery that there are different international versions, with extra photography for each, with the local fauna and flora (eg the US version is different, as is the Japanese version). I loved this and now am determined to find and collect them in every iteration I can... One day.
I'm sure Auri and Elfi will love it, you'll have to show Auri the photo of my miniature bottle terrarium/garden, that's something you could all do together (I'll maybe write how I did it, pretty simple and all free!).
Thanks for commenting, I don't go on about it, but I really miss your voice as per the olden days of Good Twitter. I do think you'd like Notes, it is so calm and peaceful, compared to what we have become accustomed to, and I know for a fact you'd love a lot of what is shared there, and I also know that if you did use it, your contributions would be well-received. (Like I said though, I do understand why you don't!) xxx
I know, I really miss the (positive) engagement from Twitter, and I miss the many interesting and interested voices that I found there. Even on Facebook, way back when! You know my thoughts on Substack etc, but I may well dip a tentative toe into Notes. I'm mulling it over! xxx
I am really finding Notes to be a place of positivity and joy. Maybe I went into it knowing to mute certain voices immediately (I rarely see politics on my feed, for example), or maybe it is simply because it started out almost exclusively as a place for newsletter writers to talk. Now, there are more readers appearing, which is a very good thing indeed.
Your voice would be a strong addition to Notes, but I absolutely understand your reasons! One thing I've noticed is that, like the Good Old Days of Twitter, the majority of my feed is full of women, not all of it, there are some wonderful men and non-binary voices too, but I find it interesting that those who talk about things I am interested in, those who I respect the most, are predominantly women. Earlier on Notes, I saw a lot of men suggested on my feed, but many of them wrote about crypto, or investing, or American politics and, frankly, that ain't my scene.
You should do some quality lurking, and I think you'll be pleased with what you see! xxx
I shall indeed work on my quality lurking! xxx
Hope the lurking is progressing satisfactorily? xxx
LURKING HAS HAPPENED. Is there a word to describe a post-lurking state of quiet activity?! xxx