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06/03/2026

06/03/2026

The box turtle crossing your driveway may have been alive before your house was built. The luna moth on the screen door has roughly a week — she emerged with no mouth, and the adult life is just long enough to find a mate and lay eggs.

Same yard. Same evening. A hundred-year gap between them.

The opossum is the one most people don't expect. Fifty teeth, venom immunity, one of the toughest immune systems in the yard — and she lives two to three years. Burns bright. Burns fast.

🌿 The bat in the attic has been there for decades. The crow on the roof remembers your face from fifteen years ago. The heron at the pond has fished the same water since before your kids were born.

Then there's the firefly — a year or two underground as a larva, eating slugs in the dark, glowing where nobody sees her. She emerges for a few weeks of light. That's it.

The chart covers fourteen species. The range runs from one week to over a century — all of them within earshot of the same back door.

The smallest lives burn the brightest 🐾

06/03/2026

Yesterday, while I was out walking, I saw a Bald Eagle hanging out in a tree, scoping the river for a meal. The odd thing was, there was a Crow hanging out with it. That was interesting. At first, I thought the Crow was simply irritating the Eagle, but that was not the case. When the Eagle finally took flight, the Crow flew with it. They were together. They both flew down the river, side by side, and then positioned themselves in another tree, again, side by side. HOW frkn cool isss that?

It just goes to show, we can all put aside our differences and work together. What a team they made. Imagine. The mighty Eagle and the very intelligent, mischievous Crow. I luvvv it.

You can tell just how big the Eagle truly was, too. The Crow looks tiny in comparison. And yeah, it’s a crappy picture, from an IPhone, but dang, it was amazing to capture it, either way. Seeing it with my own eyes was truly a gift! I listed both birds spiritual meaning below, if you’re interested.

06/03/2026

Plain and simple truth…

06/03/2026

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Wild lettuce is a powerful natural remedy that offers an alternative to synthetic painkillers and pharmaceuticals.

06/01/2026

Close your eyes and driffft away…

Just beautiful.

Check out this video, "chantress seba mama ocean"

- May we pray for the bravery to FEEL deeply the intensity of these times. Praying for the courage to truly look at it all, to look deep into the shadow and remain in the knowing that in every single moment, there is light. - May we pray that our HEARTS REMAIN OPEN, Allowing our sacred tears to flow...