This was beautiful. I often find the natural world a great way to enter my own stories. A tortoise helped me write about my father's Alzheimer's, a range of shelled animals helped me examine the way I cloister and protect myself. If you haven't read The Sound if a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey I highly recommend it.
Gorgeous writing. My mom has a permanent ostemy since colon cancer at age 54, so I sympathize. I also wrote a piece called “Funeral for a Stick Bug” that you might enjoy: https://humansandnature.org/funeral-for-a-stick-bug/
I didn't know I was gonna cry about an orchid mantis today but here I am.
This text is beautiful, thanks for writing it.
Great piece. Circling the circle of life.
Such a lovely essay about the frailty of living things!
Such a wonderful contemplative essay--full of wisdom and poetic beauty.
This was beautiful. I often find the natural world a great way to enter my own stories. A tortoise helped me write about my father's Alzheimer's, a range of shelled animals helped me examine the way I cloister and protect myself. If you haven't read The Sound if a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey I highly recommend it.
Gorgeous writing. My mom has a permanent ostemy since colon cancer at age 54, so I sympathize. I also wrote a piece called “Funeral for a Stick Bug” that you might enjoy: https://humansandnature.org/funeral-for-a-stick-bug/
Wonderful story about how you can find inspiration and solace in unexpected places if you are open-minded and curios. Thank you, Alison!