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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

Emily Dickinson said, “If I physically feel like the top of my head has been taken off, I know it is poetry.” In other words, “mind blowing.” Your writing does that to me all the time. “You’re merely part of the swirl, another animal with their scent on the wind moving through the meadows and streams to find whatever it is you’re looking for, hoping not to get hurt.” Ka-Boom!!! There my top goes again!

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Appreciate you!

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Oct 10, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

That is one of the most hypnotizing, vivid and LUSH things that I’ve read in a long time. OUTSTANDING.

Thank you so much Kelton for sharing the good magic of your chosen forest lair and welcoming us in. It’s a wee vacation for the soul.

You’re so good, I felt like I was up there too, breathing deep. 🌲🏔🌲🌲

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Oh that's so wonderful to hear. Thank you so much.

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Oct 9, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

This issue is, in its own way, a little walk in the woods where the house hum faded away and took me back to the reservation behind my old house in MA where I would walk with my dogs, listening to the trees knock against each other way high up. I was often the only person walking back there, and on the rare occasion when I encountered another human, damned if I didn't feel like my space was being invaded. I was trespassing in my own way, I guess, if you asked the deer or coyotes or foxes and owls whose woods those really were.

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So weird running into people in the woods, like what are you doing here in my magical alone time with all the creatures

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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

This is 🥰🥳🤯🎉💐

Thank you

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💛💛💛

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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

I wonder what you call a passel, flock, gaggle of little porcupines. I'm voting for pod.

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Oct 9, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

A prickle!

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I love that.

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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

Porcupettes? Indeed. I should have trusted you. How long have you known that word?

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Two days 😂

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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

Not quite as surprising as porcupette. A baby opposum is a "joey", like a kangaroo. I guess that goes for babies born in pouches (marsupials). .

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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

I had to look up ungulate

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When I go out to bird or hike I am always delighted to spot a mammal in my suburban area. We have coyotes, deer, river otters, beaver, raccoons, porcupines and squirrels. So many squirrels. Although the signs of humans are inescapable it is a joy to realize the wild things are still here. I very much enjoyed your essay today.

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Thanks, Deb! <3

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Oct 8, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

wow love it 😍

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💗💗

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Oct 11, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

This was such a balm, and captures a lot of what I feel in the woods, too. Thank you for sharing it.

I’m surprised you don’t have grizzlies! Is it too high for them?

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They're actually extirpated in Colorado — I think since the 50s? Been a long time since they've lived here.

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Oct 11, 2023Liked by Kelton Wright

Oh wow, that’s so sad! I had no idea. They’re so beautiful (when seen from very far away, and still give me a shiver up my spine…)

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Not porcupines (on my mind from your post) opossum instead.

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"Porcupettes!" That is too good :-)

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