Nature Notes (#490)~Happy New Year! I want to thank you all for participating in Nature Notes over the years

Join Nature Notes from Monday at 12:00 am EST to Friday at 11:00 pm EST. More information can be found at the top of the blog on a separate page, but it really is easy. What are you or have you seen and enjoyed in nature? It can be from your own backyard, the local park, out on a hike or anywhere. What plants and animals catch your interest? Do you garden? Have you read a good book on nature?

1. Pictografio 5. betty – NZ 9. GUM LEAF
2. A Green Ridge 6. orchid( Japan) 10. craftygreenpoet
3. Birgitta B. 7. A spirit of simplicity
4. Margi 8. FUNGUS
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Happy New Year! I want to thank you all for participating in Nature Notes over the years. I made so many online friends through blogging since 2007. Before Facebook became the primary way for people to connect online, a small number of bloggers began blogging. We felt we knew each other even though we had never met. We got to know the family, the passions, and hearts of our friends. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for sharing your world and your love of nature. Thank you for the long-distance hugs you have sent during difficult times….I am sending long-distance hugs and good wishes for 2021… Please stay well…..Michelle
Remember by Jo Harjo
Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star’s stories.
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Remember the moon, know who she is.
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Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.
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Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother’s, and hers.
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Remember your father. He is your life, also.
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Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
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Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.
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Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe.
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Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
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Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
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Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
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Remember language comes from this.
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Remember the dance language is, that life is.
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Remember.
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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo has worked to expand our American language, culture, and soul. A Creek Indian and student of First Nation history, Harjo is rooted simultaneously in the natural world, in earth—especially the landscape of the American southwest— and in the spirit world. Aided by these redemptive forces of nature and spirit, incorporating native traditions of prayer and myth into a powerfully contemporary idiom, her visionary justice-seeking art transforms personal and collective bitterness to beauty, fragmentation to wholeness, and trauma to healing.”
What are you seeing in nature? It can be from your own backyard, the local park, out on a hike or anywhere. What plants and animals catch your interest? What do you find interesting in nature? Take a photo, write a post, a story, a poem, anything goes because I love to see what Mother Nature is up to in your area. PS..please check back and visit bloggers who post later in the week!

Have a wonderful nature-filled week! Please be safe.

10 thoughts on “Nature Notes (#490)~Happy New Year! I want to thank you all for participating in Nature Notes over the years”

  5. Thank you, Michelle, for writing one of the loveliest blogs on the internet! I always learn something new about nature from you. Happy and Healthy 2021

  6. Happy (and Hopeful) New Year to you and yours Michelle. It really *does* feel as if we know each other well after all this time. Thank you for all you do hosting and for your own beautiful posts, where I always learn something new. Stay well!

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