here's how one grey squirrel shakes seeds out of a squirrel buster🙈.

another, larger one, used to actually lift it off the hook and drop it to the ground, until i put something over the hook and attached the loop to a caribiner🫨

i'm telling you, the squirrel challenge is intersubjactive🤔

the feeders were busy this morning, since birds were scarce while the cooper's was around.

thinking otherwise.👌🏽😛😄

“the Organism is none other than a combination of all the Universe's activities within a single individual body.

This doctrine has led me to the conviction that World and Organism are one in kind, and do not stand merely in harmony with each other.

From hence was developed my Mineral, Vegetable and Animal system, as also my philosophical Anatomy and Physiology.”

Excerpt From
Elements of Physiophilosophy
Lorenz Oken

free on internet archive

i left some kibble fBold last night. this morning she came by for more kibble and some peanuts ❤️

At the moment, we humans are lucky to coinhabit the earth with mollusks,

even if we are a recent presence in their much longer history.

I hope the terrestrial snails, secreted away in their burrows by day across the earth's vast landscapes, will continue their mysterious lives,

gliding slowly and gracefully through the night, millions of years into the future.

even snails organize to gain freedom.

Farmed snails unhappy with their lot in life have found ways to break free.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Sir George Head described the single-minded survival instinct of snails for sale at a street market in Rome: "The proprietor," Sir George commented,

"is obliged to exert his utmost vigilance and dexterity in order to restrain their incessant efforts to crawl over the edge of the basket and escape."

A U.S. Department🔽

opossums and their place in the budget.

Saudi Arabia
desert sees snowfall
for first time in history.

but climate change is
"just weather", eh🤨

https://youtu.be/DW-iBflXEaI

Tong Len
Breathe in for all of us and breathe out for all of us. Use what seems like poison as medicine.

breathing in the suffering of others,

making a connection to
Avalokitesvara,

breathing out
relief from suffering,
transmitting,

in waves spreading
healing
all sentient beings.

the worms that were
our ancestors.

"the deuterostomes, which develop the same characteristics, though somewhat embarrassingly in

reverse order, anus first and then a mouth, branched off into mammals, including
Homo sapiens."

who knew
rhat
a snail
would binge
and spend the night
exuding
the overdose of starch
from its entire body?

a multi camera view video
of

the Raccoon Saloon 👌🏽

see everywhere at once, then focus.

https://www.youtube.com/live/aoEuW-xmL3M?si=AzA0CDVMOUyMxzSe

more of the Cooper's visit.

while sitting by my window
a Cooper's lands
in the Japanese Lilac

surveying
his larder
as he perceives it.

squirrels are unfazed
birds have vanished.

Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

facing death heightens awareness and appreciation of life's meaning.

only now🙏🏻
here we are facing the dreadful uncertainty.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above.

continues 🔽