{"id":7979,"date":"2020-05-24T21:52:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:52:38","slug":"waiting-for-chrysalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/24\/waiting-for-chrysalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Chrysalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1978\" height=\"2560\" data-attachment-id=\"7980\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/24\/waiting-for-chrysalis\/glow_22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?fit=1978%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1978,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Glow_22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?fit=644%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?fit=644%2C833\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?w=1978&amp;ssl=1 1978w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?resize=644%2C833&amp;ssl=1 644w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?resize=1583%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Glow_22-scaled.jpg?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1. Glow #22. For the others in the Stay-At-Home Pandemic Bestiary, check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/gallery\/\">https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/gallery\/<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age unknown. Sitting in a chair and thinking chrysalid thoughts. This, another in the bestiary, Glow #22. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking, for example, about why should Sunday of Memorial Day weekend  include an errand to Meijer where mask ignoring nimshits&#8211;a trio&#8211;followed the same storepath as me, only I was there to retrieve the dinnerthings Is. requested and they were there to loud-talk about which styrofoam cooler to buy. Grocery errand thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking about how President Trump played golf today even as Coronavirus deaths approach 100,000. I have no interest in golf. Too high brow. Too white. Too much money in the players&#8217; pockets. Too groomed. Golf is not really the issue here, of course. Distracted thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking about Ph.&#8217;s taking up occupancy at this condo, about how the condo first rented from 2009-2012, then purchased in 2014, then roommated when I took up work at VT, becoming legally brambled, lawsuits and so on. Until now, such a soulful and safe place; a place of growth and healing, and more than anything a portal to Is., without which working in Virginia just would not be possible. Ypsilanti condominium thanking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three 10&#8243; lavender pots emptied of their rootwerk and starter soil, set up in the sideyard where much of the afternoon was pruningspent on firebushes, thinning and thinning until the sun shined through, and meanwhile, what gratitude for neighborliness, in that P., former master gardener for City of Detroit (almost certainly feeling pity for the landscaping), brought over a bucket of starter groundcover, plants whose names, who even knows. Sprinkled fertilizer recommended by the clerk at the nursery who I trusted because she had many years and few fucks to give. Fertilizer thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking about grubs and nematodes and the buzzing pollinators at the canopy of the firebushes, and that tattoo from March, painful as it was, Lotus and the Four Pollinators, no butterfly, but there was a bat and hummingbird, a bee and a dragonfly. Can&#8217;t have everything thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking about why not have oatmeal for lunch and add a pinch of dried chocolate mint herb from late last summer, about how elevating though the chocolate mint was, it was enough. Sufficiency thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Returning to imagefigure, thinking about whether pupae can feel when chrysalis formation begins or if instead the phenom just clicks into hardshell-coating, whether metamorphosis is sensed, where biochemically such senses might even report, but perhaps later on as memories never principally experienced. Prolly should&#8217;ve majored in biology thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Age unknown. 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