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Amateur Naturalist

Emily Gielshire

mostly questions, occasionally answers, about the world and our tiny place in it

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the things I missed when I deleted social media

I have been off instagram for only six weeks so take all of this with a grain of salt and an appropriate eye-roll.

For the first few days, the impulse to check instagram on my newly instagram-less phone1 felt like sticking my tongue throu...

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savor it friday vol. 23 - many flew over the egrets' nest

Every March around the time Daylight Savings hits I catch sight of a great egret or 12 whose faces are starting to turn subtly green and I feel myself morphing into a cartoon wolf. Coincidentally, this experience is not so dissimilar from t...

2 months ago
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amateur, meaning, one who loves

It’s 7:53 am and I’m going to be late for work but there’s a newly-emerged dragonfly waltzing between the cattails at the Ibis Pond and her chartreuse body is backlit with a real lava lamp glow. I feel my heart quicken, my eyes well up - sh...

3 months ago
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Learning the constellations in the time of Starlink

When listing the gravest disappointments I’ve faced in this life, ranking high is each time I’ve stared at a cluster of lights in the sky only to realize they are not a previously-unknown constellation, but a bundle of satellites smirking f...

5 months ago
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savor it friday vol. 22 - cones, shells, burs, husks, and other armor

I can’t remember who I have told1 what about chicken duty lately but the gist is that for the time being, it’s (more or less) only me caring for them these days. I wouldn’t mind it but… I have a couple other balls in the air, okay? Going to...

6 months ago
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