“the gods are libido.

It is that part of us which is immortal,

since it represents that bond through which we feel that in the race we are never extinguished.

It is life from the life of mankind.

Its springs, which well
up from the depths of the unconscious, come, as does our
life in general,

from the root of the whole of humanity, since we are indeed only a twig broken off from the
mother and transplanted.”

"the old Babylonian
Oannes-Ea, who was represented in the form of a fish,
and daily came from the sea as a fish to teach the people
wisdom.

His name was brought into connection with
John’s.

With the rising of the renewed sun all that lived
in darkness, as water-animal or fish, surrounded by all
terrors of night and death,

became as the shining fiery
firmament of the day. Thus the words of John the Baptist
gain especial meaning”

CGJung
Excerpt From
Psychology of the Unconscious

“the fish is a libido
symbol, and, indeed, as it seems

predominately for the
renewal of the libido.”

CGJung

watching.

more

how the garden grows.

and red squirrel peanut thief.

opossum rescue.

"The neighbors dog in the trailer park that border my fence nabbed this poor little girl named Butterball.
We heard a opossum screaming at 1 am and J ran out jumped our fence and saved her
She suffered nasal cavity damage broken jaw and a fistula.
With 2 weeks of tube feeding because she couldn't chew we have this .
D.J. has medical skills, so
Butterball went immediately to her.
what dedication and love does for a beautiful opossum.
Here are the pics from intake to now."

i've had a manicure set for years, but only recently discovered the purpose this tool.

now that my cuticles have started to get hard around my nails, even using hand lotion regularly.

this tool trims the hard bits neatly and makes my hands more comfortable.

morning, cardinal contact call. chip chip chip, answer chip chip. another call, chip chip chip chip, answer chip chip chip. until long return pause,
then repeat call CHIP chip chip, repeat.
answer long series of chips, alarm? birds take to the trees, and other cover.

ten minutes, they begin to return and go back to baseline.

until i get up to do qi gong. then,
quiet questioning chirps from above my head, watching what i'm doing.

after awhile, they settle back to baseline while i carry on.

Dinergy: The Primordial Meta-Pattern in Nature
Richard Ott

"If we look carefully and sympathetically at nature, we see that she is a process with one main overlying meta-pattern.

All stable patterns in nature contain a balance of forces, a kind of reconciliation of opposites.

from the formation of hydrogen soon after the Big Bang, through the process of star formation and in the biological functions of living systems.".

@Museek
sorry, some of that was not working.

i lost your post about the research gate article, so here's the info anyway.

here's the link. i don't know if it will work.
https://sci-hub.gupiaoq.com/10.2307/25443802

here's the DOI. 10.2307/25443802
plug the DOI into sci-hub.
here's the sci-hub address
https://sci-hub.gupiaoq.com/#google_vignette

meditation with wildlife

this morning, i had a session hand feeding peanuts to chipmunks, easy to do, they're very friendly.

and of course, squirrels came close to get peanuts. but when a resident bunny hopped over to join us, just sat there with the crowd around me for about 10 minutes, then went on her way,

i feel like something had been accomplished in increased intimacy with my fellow creatures.

language & earthy metaphor

"the beautiful phenomenon of the meteor, which the German
language most unpoetically calls

Sternschnuppe
(the smouldering wick of a star).

Certain South American
Indians call the shooting star the “urine of the stars.”

According to the principle of the least resistance, expressions
are taken from the nearest source available.

e.g.,the transference of the metonymic expression
of urination as Schiffens, “to rain"

“the intimate connection

between

fire and speech.”

the native plants i've installed in my garden are thriving. here's a patch of Anemone Canadensis in its third season, having grown from 8 tiny plants. so small, i feared they'd be taken over by the lemon balm, but, nope.

the patch at the back is just budding up, with one front runner bloom today.

interspecies consideration.
"Consider the deer and the junco.

If a deer wanders into this bird’s nesting territory, the junco will rise up and stand tall, turn toward the deer, and issue its mildest, meekest alarm call.

Who could hear this barely audible ttth! ttth! ttth!?

But the deer does hear. It pivots its ears forward and pauses: Oh, okay, I get it. Then it takes a step back and circles around.

bird language students have recorded the phenomenon in their journals innumerable times."

a gift brome feeder from a neighbour who's dying of cancer and can no longer feed birds😥

they must recognize the feeder because normally birds take several days to approach a new feeder, in my experience.

perhaps breeding season provides extra motivation.

anyway, squirrels, naturally, were the first to try, and fail.

then grackles, starlings, jays. too big, which makes feeding awkward.

finches, cardinals, downy woodpeckers, nuthatches, all yes in a matter of a few hours. house sparrows too.

baby opossum meets feline hunter.

tells him to BACK OFF

AND JUST KEEP GOING

GET IT❓⁉️‼️

here's an amazing account of an eye witness watching a male Cardinal save his mate from a raptor.

courage and love👌🏽✌🏽🙏🏻

Bird wisdom for survival.

"Conservation of energy

is why the ground bird who knows that a particular cat can jump only four feet off the ground will ascend to a branch five feet up,

but not fifty feet or even fifteen feet, which would be a waste of energy."