collector's instinct
i belong to the group of people whose blood line must go back to the collector’s period, before the agricultural era began. i love to collect all kinds of goodies from the forest: blueberries, raspberries, cranberries and mushrooms. i experience a deep satisfaction and joy in finding good spoils in hidden places in the forest. then i am at peace with myself and with the world. my fingers are steadily working and stretching towards the berries and my thoughts are wandering freely. sometimes i’m crouching in impossible positions to reach a specially full branch of berries. i do feel pain in the back but i ignore it, at least to some point. i even endure the insects, mosquitos, ants and flyes of all kinds.
my joy has its roots in the collector’s instinct which again consists of pure survival need (food!) but also on the smells and colours these berries and mushrooms have. all my senses are partaking in the collecting.
the action is so overwhelming that later when i close my eyes, i continue to see berrybushes and mushrooms in the moss and my fingers keep smelling of them.
i don’t understand people who ignore all this abundance in the forest! luckily in finland it is aloud to pick up berries everywhere, no matter who owns the forest. i can move freely about but i do crouch and hide myself automatically if i see someone else. i think it’s somehow also an instict not to be seen by others while in the forest.(in order not to reveal the spoils for the other?)
specially the wild raspberries have been wonderful this year. i don't remeber any summer like this.there is relatively little worms and the berries almost drop to the hand. and the taste is so nobel and fine, the colour so raspberry-like red! it is a treat " de lux" to eat wild raspberries!
it is just sad that the only time i can follow my collector's instict is in the summer, that is in the month of july and part of august. no good. here in berlin they often plant wild berry bushes in the courtyards. this morning i was longingly noticing the riping berries in the buckthorn bushes outside this house...
Eingestellt von white dog Am/um
01:58
3 Kommentare:
Hi happy collector! I felt the same some days ago when I dived once again into the endless raspberry jungle in Viikki forests. I got several insect bites and branches were scratching my skin but who cares! My Turkish Yoghurt can got almost filled up.
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Suomeksi on helpompi. Eli valitse customize (kai sulla on nämä asetukset englanniksi?) sitten Settings ja sieltä Comments välilehti. sieltä löydät kohdan Show word verification for comments. Valitse Yes. (Saat lisätietoa klikkaamalla viereistä kysymysmerkkiä.)
Kun word verification on päällä, kommentoijat joutuvat kirjoittamaan esitetyt "vääntyneet" kirjaimet, jotta varmistetaan, että kommentin kirjoittaja on ihminen eikä spammeri. Spammerit kun ovat koneita, eivätkä osaa lukea vääristyneitä kirjaimia. Word verification kannattaa olla päällä, koska spammeri saattaa löytää sivullesi koska tahansa ja kommenttiosastosi täyttyy roskapostista. Ei mukavaa.
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you hit the nail in the head when you say we get used to an issue by the mere continuous mention of it whatever that is, while the issue that is "talked about" remains , it becomes part of the landscape ; to hear and talk about the issue itself as/becomes some form of cliche an unpredicted quality of the socalled "freemarket" it absorbs and banalizes absolutely everything transforming it into a ludicrous commodity - no matter the nature of the matter at hand - all is entertainment , showbiz , ... as always challenging glad for your existence ltnt nukari all the best when a recording of your music ? if that were possible ...
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