First Finds From Swandro!.....Orkney Industrial Heritage Page…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……
by Bernie Bell - 07:51 on 02 July 2025
First Finds From Swandro!......
https://www.swandro.co.uk/post/first-star-finds-of-the-day
YAY!
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Orkney Industrial Heritage Page…..
…has an addition….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/30/holland-farm-added-to-papays-industrial-heritage-page/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……
“Becoming Earth: Experimental Theology
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Released from the weight of wood, into the afterlife of cedars; there is no boundary between the sacred and the mundane.”
Imagine yourself as a molecule of carbon dioxide exhaled by a black bear wandering through an ancient cedar forest. You drift through the air until a towering tree draws you in through its open stomata—the tiny pores in its needles. There, you become part of the tree’s architecture; the building blocks of its cells. Centuries upon centuries pass before the tree, in the throes of rot, releases you from its disintegrating body, and you rejoin the vast expanse of forest air. Moving through this eternal cycle of inhale and exhale, where is the distinction between what is living and what is dead?
In this week’s story, acclaimed Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer visits the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, where scientists will study, over the course of two centuries, how old-growth trees and their decomposition contribute to the continuation of life and the flourishing of Earth’s air, soil, and water. For these cedar trees, Robin says, death is merely a transition—a rearrangement of elements from one species to the next. What might this teach us about the nature of our own “afterlife?” Can this cyclical ecology be an experimental theology? With no clear separation between life and what comes after, the forest reveals that nothing ever truly perishes, but only returns, again and again, to union with the Earth.
This essay is the final in a series of four we are sharing in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/becoming-earth/
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