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how much is too much to Love this planet?

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ALL sentient beings.   

I muck out the corridor from the Curry House,  the kidding House,  where Caroline and the two bucklings,  the two Wethers still live.   There has been Long and Strong RAIN.   Steady,  deep seeping RAIN.   In May.

i rake and then lift and pitch it over the fence,  scattering it nearby.   What will that Forest  there make of this?….it's compost.   i move the feed bowl and underneath,  right there,  a large Jerusalem Cricket.    Nothing much unnerves me…not very large spiders.   Jerusalem Crickets do.   In  New Mex they are called Child of the Earth.   it doesn't budge.   Hunkers down.   maybe closing its eyes i think.    I scoop it up,   drop it over the fence.   It very well might make its way back.    There is suddenly Thunder.   When i was feeling more poetic,  i would say….Thunder Man.   Today again,   i say  Thunder Man.  and then   Heavy Heavy Hail.   May.  Sierra Nevada,  California.

Dee has a good Post.   Pattern and Outrage    deemallon.com     I was glad to be there,  reading…..thinking.   feeling.    

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20 responses to “how much is too much to Love this planet?”

  1. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I have yet to see a Jerusalem Cricket but hear their bite is awful! I did hear that chickens love them. Very wide spread in the south and west. It is a wet time. The Earth drinks and gives off a wonderful aroma.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Talkie isn’t much for “bugs of substance”. Jenny says she’s a vegetarian. Maybe.
    they are really not comfortable to look at. it’s like they’re made of plastic, like fake. And they have faces. They are big.
    but
    they are sentient beings….sentient defined by Gelek Rimpoche at Jewel Heart Temple as anything that runs from harm. tries to escape. When i was scooping it up, it tried.

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  3. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    I really wish I had not googled that.

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  4. Nanette Avatar
    Nanette

    What a big beautiful creature. I’m glad it didn’t end up as Talkie’s lunch. My heart went out to it, picturing it hunkering down. Well done to scoop it up and over the fence, when you felt unnerved. Wondering what about them unnerves you?

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    me either.

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  6. jude Avatar
    jude

    This morning it is Gary the Gopher in the compost. He is pretty in comparison. looks like that old plastic cootie game.
    https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2019/07/remember-the-game-cootie-it-was-invented-in-minneapolis/

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  7. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Hmm…it was almost a dare to look. I think I’d rather find one of these than a snake.

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  8. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    laughing … same here

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  9. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    compost … I sit and recall the manure from mucked out stalls that was delivered to us by a farmer in long-ago Williamsburg … the soil at our new house was pure clay (and now I wish I had done something with that, but oh well) … we wanted to put in a garden and the only bit of land that got any kind of sun was at the edge of the property, on a slope … so we created tiers/terraces … and we pitchforked that mucked out manure onto each tier … composting in place … turning and turning and turning … until the clay yielded and the soil became … and we grew potatoes and peas and spinach and lettuce … all spring crops, before the trees leafed over and shaded the beds … then impatiens … which grew into bushes three feet tall, with stems bigger around than my thumb … I loved that garden
    how glorious manure is … how rich the soil that comes of its composting

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  10. dee Avatar
    dee

    Ugh! Me three! I can’t unsee that thing. Interestingly when I googled it, the first entry was Jerusalem cricket and the second entry was Jerusalem cricket bite.

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  11. dee Avatar
    dee

    Me four, I mean

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  12. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    I, too, lived somewhere with pure smooth clay in the soil. Also wish that had happened when I was not so young. Now- it would be well used and appreciated. I did not look for image of Grace’s Cricket. One cannot “unsee”.

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  13. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Heard on MPR yesterday that due to all the restaurants closed Milwaukee is having a real rat problem .. they are hungry and looking anywhere and everywhere for food. They are especially drawn to backyards that have bird feeders of which my husband is a great fan. Soool happy I don’t have to worry about Jerusalem Crickets.

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  14. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    That was a lot of weather. Unusual to see here in May. Even my big poodle, Seamus, was uneasy, and not even fireworks or regular thunder bother him. He was curious, though, as we opened the door to watch the hail and lightning. Did your animal friends take this storm in stride?
    I loved the photo of Black in the tree!
    xo

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    their plastic~ness. They are so otherworldly, like aliens, there’s nothing familiar to them, as in
    organic
    they are clear and striped and startling. Big.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yup…like a cootie

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    not me. snakes i know and feel familiar. These….
    always un~familiar, startling.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the Wall Garden is still so much just BEComing, still so much a mystery of Need, i give, what the Goats give….it might need more?

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. Rats are enough. I don’t know how to think
    about Rats

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they did…take it in stride. Not a comment. And a new day
    came.

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