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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Winter ruminations while dreaming of warmth
Dana Wilde ponders the changing winter seasons in Maine over the past several decades and his own changing feelings about the seasons.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: All about Christmas
Reflecting on his grandson's love of Christmas and family, Dana Wilde ponders how unity is the root experience of all religious feeling.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2023
Dana Wilde: The shapeshifting woods
A forest's transformation prompts memories of what was and visions of what could be, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedNovember 8, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: To dream like a spider
With new research suggesting cross spiders experience sleeplike phases, Dana Wilde ponders what dreams are made of for a variety of living things.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Birds and portents
Dana Wilde mulls the practice of reading bird omens and the meaning of a pileated woodpecker.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Toad psychology
Mulling whether toads think curmudgeonly thoughts, Dana Wilde ponders about the inner life of toads and the impossibility of our ever having the faintest understanding of it.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: After apple picking
Golden sunlight, a cartload of apples and a love of autumn and family are lasting September memories, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Spiders weaving durable webs
A whole other world of construction is glinting in the late summer woods, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: ‘In such an ugly time’
News of the world's weather this summer brings a level of dread that most poetry can do nothing about, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2023
Backyard Naturalist: Yellow alchemy
An unknown glint in the grass of Unity sparks midsummer ruminations on what's visible and the grace we need to see it, Dana Wilde writes.
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