...reflecting on how stress cycles and cycles of abundance in any lifeform can affect all others. Grasshoppers recently dessimated our western KS garden (minus garlic)
on year four of a Regenerative Ag project to convert massive old corn fields to diversified prairie.... Then, a colleague shared this:
"A Yale University study reveals how
mood-based changes to a grasshopper's diet affect the environment around him.
Sometimes, when a grasshopper dies, microbes in the soil easily break down his nitrogen-rich body, enriching the soil and helping carbohydrate-rich plants to grow.
"When the grasshopper experiences a fear trigger, though -- like in the presence of a spider -- he consumes more carbohydrate-rich foods. Then, when he dies, the microbes have more difficulty breaking down his body, and nitrogen-rich plants grow instead of carbohydrate-rich ones.
"The grasshopper benefits the ecosystem by facilitating plant growth, as evidenced by his ability to noticeably change the types of plants that thrive in his environment."
This is wonderful! Life is not the absence of death but a symphony of intention and attention in its dying process to birth life anew once more. Did i get that right? ❤️
Such wonderful poetry to touch the true nature of cycles of regeneration... Which are not ours to define, but to witness and experience and dance with. I see the oroborous weaving tapestries of vines and ash, rippling into infinity. And I choose to dance with it, even and the especiallywhen I feel scared at the mouth of its overpowering magnificence.
While this may be a very worthy favorite chapter, it's the one I think on most in my day to day, my favorite series of lines/ favorite quote, so far, arives in Section two, at the opening of #18.
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Reading and rereading the careful crafting of the English language to convey things I feel and experience are often don't know how to say.
Loving it.
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Such fun to journey through a book together with the author and friends and strangers, as in a book club! I'm asking folks from our Hub to please join.
Thank you! Yes, this chapter was the hardest to write and also, simultaneously, the easiest. When we begin to reawaken the idea that this, Earth, us, are connected in vibrations and energies and so much more, we may begin to see that health, that "thing" we have searched for so long, is not a "thing" at all and also not to be "searched" for :D
...reflecting on how stress cycles and cycles of abundance in any lifeform can affect all others. Grasshoppers recently dessimated our western KS garden (minus garlic)
on year four of a Regenerative Ag project to convert massive old corn fields to diversified prairie.... Then, a colleague shared this:
"A Yale University study reveals how
mood-based changes to a grasshopper's diet affect the environment around him.
Sometimes, when a grasshopper dies, microbes in the soil easily break down his nitrogen-rich body, enriching the soil and helping carbohydrate-rich plants to grow.
"When the grasshopper experiences a fear trigger, though -- like in the presence of a spider -- he consumes more carbohydrate-rich foods. Then, when he dies, the microbes have more difficulty breaking down his body, and nitrogen-rich plants grow instead of carbohydrate-rich ones.
"The grasshopper benefits the ecosystem by facilitating plant growth, as evidenced by his ability to noticeably change the types of plants that thrive in his environment."
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https://animals.mom.com/grasshoppers-beneficial-5185.html
This is wonderful! Life is not the absence of death but a symphony of intention and attention in its dying process to birth life anew once more. Did i get that right? ❤️
Such wonderful poetry to touch the true nature of cycles of regeneration... Which are not ours to define, but to witness and experience and dance with. I see the oroborous weaving tapestries of vines and ash, rippling into infinity. And I choose to dance with it, even and the especiallywhen I feel scared at the mouth of its overpowering magnificence.
While this may be a very worthy favorite chapter, it's the one I think on most in my day to day, my favorite series of lines/ favorite quote, so far, arives in Section two, at the opening of #18.
✨
Reading and rereading the careful crafting of the English language to convey things I feel and experience are often don't know how to say.
Loving it.
✨
Such fun to journey through a book together with the author and friends and strangers, as in a book club! I'm asking folks from our Hub to please join.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Hb2X_msvDg&si=iuWDJ5zBVc2ueklL
Such a powerful chapter. So essential for our learning, to see and feel all this as true and real. And shift from there.
Thank you! Yes, this chapter was the hardest to write and also, simultaneously, the easiest. When we begin to reawaken the idea that this, Earth, us, are connected in vibrations and energies and so much more, we may begin to see that health, that "thing" we have searched for so long, is not a "thing" at all and also not to be "searched" for :D
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