Courtney Behrens

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It’s a cool and cloudy autumn Sunday and I can’t shake the feeling that I should be wearing flannel and drinking beer while watching football.

I blame my Midwestern formation.

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My kid singing her made up theme song: “she’s still learning but she’s still pretty great!”

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@martynwendell Favorite thing I’ve learned recently about DSNY: they have an artist-in-residence.

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This is such basic knowledge.

Why do we not pray for the land?

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Went out to stand in the rain in gratitude.

Our land is in a drought.

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When I hear “you that have no money, come buy and eat!” I have many thoughts, but the one that occurs to me now is that plants turn the sun into food for us, which we could never do for ourselves.

We could not breathe, drink or eat without this good land.

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@AlyssaKayeB We’ve never tried to do the tooth fairy for the same reasoning (seriously tho. Why do grown ups think they can just lie to kids?!). We accidentally convinced our kid that when she loses a tooth she has to pay us for it’s disposal. It was a joke we’re now trying to undo.

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Remember this bug?

The spotted lanternfly, an invasive predator insect, is being sighted again in New York City and New Jersey, and the government wants us to kill it. https://t.co/qj7hiwcDGR

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8 millennials sitting together on the beach. My kid does something cute and we want to take a picture.

Not a single one of us has a phone on hand.

#booksoverphones

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It’s amazing that the sun and summer breeze will dry the laundry for free - and so quickly too!

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@EmilyMcgowin Currently reading, for the first time. What beauty!

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@martynwendell Landscape for birds instead! (Plug for “Nature’s Best Hope” by Doug Tallamy)

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Yes! This!

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“‘Weep! Weep!’ calls a toad from the water’s edge. And I do.

If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.”

- Robin Wall Kimmerer

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O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress;
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.

O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbor
With your crooked heart.

- W. H. Auden

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@AlyssaKayeB No! What a loss!!

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E is turning 4 tomorrow. This evening has been non-stop requests for all things pink, glittery, and unicorn-y and I don’t really know how this is my child, but I’m so here for her.

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Today I’m grateful for the finally-warm weather. For itself, yes, but also because Covid is among us and it’s finals week. Will I make it through? TBD.