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Luke Leisman's avatar

It's many months after you posted this, and now very much winter, but I discovered your writing doing a search for Chet Raymo, and this has been an encouragement to me as a fellow PhD hobbyist nature-ish writer just trying to figure things out.

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Juliana Hopkins's avatar

I guess writing is not an event - like Spring. It is an emergence - happening all the time. And I guess Spring is not springing for much of a purpose other than the natural rhythm of life - perhaps your writing is you expressing your own natural rhythms? Purpose is a funny one - I'm thinking of how it helps and how really there is no purpose - Alan Watts says "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple." And yet we humans have a mind that wants purpose, so perhaps it's best to find one (whilst knowing that we fulfil the main purpose of life in just living). Anyway - if it helps, I love your writing as it shows me your world, and it helps me accept my world. So thank you!

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