When you're writing about nature, at times your writing reminds me of a friend of mine. Lives in semi-suburbia but on her walks notices all there is to know going on with the flora and fauna and writes quite eloquently on it all, always managing a story. At least when writing on nature, she seems to notice some things in a similar way to you which is interesting. She's not zen buddhist but has practiced meditation for years. Suburbia to me is like prison, but when I first visited her (after a couple of decades of having fallen out of touch) and saw some of the huge charcoal drawings she does of suburban lawns I was amazed. I could feel all that was underneath biding its time to retrieve its place. Could sense the mound builders and asked her about it and as it turned out she grew up in OK and having some Cherokee ancestry her father took her all aroung the SE when she was a child, to all the mounds.
She wrote the most remarkable meditation on ants in her driveway a couple of years ago.
Hope it's not disappointing my comparing your voice to that of another. It is only in the approach to nature and you have your differences but some of the similarities are interesting.
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