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I enjoyed the "feel" of this essay. Your vivid writing coaxed me to imagine mother beetles shuttling along in moist narrow spaces, tending to their brood in arrays of chambers in total darkness. There's may be a very tactile, acoustic and aromatic world.

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Now if I could just learn a bit more about my own biome.....

A lot here to process, and really learn from. I am often struck by the power of motherhood and how extremely protective Mums are to their young. Today the article in Guardian about an Orca which had apparently adopted a baby pilot whale warmed my heart.

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Really beautiful and necessary perceptions here. Time for us as humans to pay attention to interdependence. If these recent years have taught us any at all.

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