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Jen Rez's avatar

This is so beautifully and articulately written! I can't remember if I've commented before but i first stumbled across your account over a leaf on the pavement - it had such good textures and really captured it's leafy nature. So much so I had to show my mum who spends more time than most housebound. I knew she would appreciate it because you captured the more than humanness of it which is what she misses from being inside often. We talked about you, "oh this, this is a person who knows the things" and I was surprised but not to read about your ND (which I can't remember the name of 🫣 because I got good memory for textures and bad for word retrieval 😂). You have had to work harder and intellectualise in areas many take for granted and it's like through that effort you can explain the world with this heightened ability and I go YEAH THAT. I have nothing clever to say 😂 but to point and go YEAH THAT. And to tell you I really appreciate pieces like this where I find out there are actual words for thoughts/feelings instead of just pointing 😁. In summary - THANK YOU.

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Steve Boatright's avatar

I've just encountered your writing as it was linked to another account I follow and I was going g to skim over it but ended up reading it forwards then, bizarrely, backwards (by paragraphs).

I too have developed a love for birch, maybe because I spent 3 weeks living in a tent in a Scottish birch forest, I felt strongly as I lay down at night that they, the birch trees, were trying to embrace me and pull me towards their roots. But the reason I read your piece twice was that I've been trying to express similar thoughts, that all living things are connected as part of a whole and that the purpose of the evolutionary dead end that defines us as humans is to be the consciousness of the whole and so give it worth (worthship or worship). Anyway, I look forward to reading more of your writing, thank you for posting it.

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