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Thanks for #trees #tagyoureit @kspenmoll I love this book. It made me more aware of nature. Of trees and the conditions that have to be right for some of them to live, the interdependent ecosystem of it all. The creatures who live in them, the insects who make their home. Their root system. How they talk to each other. These are pics are from different walks/hikes I took on vacation and just like reading a good Kingsolver or Patchett, being👇🏼

Reggie around those trees made me breathe easier. Tagging anyone who wants to play. 2d

AmyG Yes! Trees are so calming. Loved this book too. 2d

AnnCrystal 😍🌳💝🌲💝. 2d

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kspenmoll This book is sitting on my shelf. I have only heard good things about it- I think its size daunts me! 2d

Suet624 @kspenmoll it sits on my shelf as well for probably the same reason. But I have enough friends that keep pushing me to read it so I‘m sure I‘ll get to it eventually. 2d

Leftcoastzen Amazing book ! It drew me in , made me miss California Redwoods ! 2d

lil1inblue This is one of my all-time favorite books. Trees are so healing! 😍 2d

quietlycuriouskate Wonderful book! ❤️ 1d

Bookzombie I love all your photos! 1d

Reggie @AmyG the hike in North Kansas. It was just me and another car. Every snap crackle and pop of a leave or twig had me looking over my shoulder. I now realize I have watched too many Friday the 13th. lol 1d

Reggie @AnnCrystal 🖤🖤🖤🌲🌳🎄🌴🪾 1d

Reggie @kspenmoll @Suet624 the first half, I loved it sooooooo much. The second half, some of it is up to your interpretation. But it‘s still in my top books I‘ve read since 2016. I never really noticed trees until that book. 1d

Reggie @Leftcoastzen it made me go down a YouTube rabbit hole and I saw a video on the 10 oldest trees in the world. Some of them are 100s of years old. One was on the African continent until a drunk driver drove into it. 1d

Reggie @lil1inblue @quietlycuriouskate it‘s been about 5 years but I still think about some of the characters from this book every so often. 1d

Reggie @Bookzombie thanks, Margie. I feel so nerdy. People were asking me what I‘d did on vacation and I have all these pics of these trees on the hike. Then I tell them I managed to read 10 books and then I tell them about drag bingo with my friend, Margie. 🖤🖤🖤 1d

AmyG Ha! How many times have I said to myself…”Is this how I die?”. Glad you made it. 🤣 1d

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kspenmoll

Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature | M. Amos Clifford

I am going in a hike in a local forest tomorrow morning! Cannot wait to smell the pine…🥾🌳🪾🌲
@Reggie a recent post of yours had trees pictured so #tagyoureit !!!

Chrissyreadit

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 2d

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lil1inblue

Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness | Dr. Qing Li

I very much would like to return to the woods, please. #mondaymood

dabbe 💚💚💚 4d

Jari-chan 💖💖💖 4d

AnnCrystal 💝🍄💝🍄💝. (edited) 3d

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lil1inblue @dabbe @jari-chan @anncrystal 💚🌲💚🌳💚 3d

Reggie I‘m here back in NM, the mostly in a desert spot missing all the trees. Totally get this. 1d

lil1inblue @Reggie 💚 🌳 💚 16h

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Eggs

The Tree in Me | Corinna Luyken

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“Nourish the tree that lives in you.”

Beautifully painted picture book🌳🩷🌼

#Read2025
#Bookspinbingo
#Pantone2025

DieAReader, Lauredhel, Andrew65, BarbaraBB, TheAromaofBooks

BarbaraBB Wow what a beautiful illustration 💛🧡 1w

DieAReader 🥳💖Excellent! 1w

TheAromaofBooks Such a lovely cover!! 1w

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Eggs @BarbaraBB 🧡🌳💛 1w

Eggs @DieAReader 🙏🏻🤗 1w

Eggs @TheAromaofBooks 😍😌 1w

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IriDas

Thing Lou Couldn't Do, The | Ashley Spires

#mentalhealthmonday

I do the stuff my anxiety normally prevents me from doing. Eg. On Sunday I installed and used the vacuum system that came with my car that I got last year. Every time I looked at it I‘d freak out, afraid I‘d mess it up, etc. But after the incident with my son on Thursday (see previous post about 2 down from this) I must have needed to show myself I could still control something. :)

Tagging @CBee

Kerrbearlib

CBee Thanks for the tag - promise to answer your email soon ♥️ 2w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🫂👌🏼💝. 2w

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Daisey

A Tree a Day: 365 of the World�s Most Majestic Trees | Amy-Jane Beer

I completely missed posting my joys on Friday because it‘s been an incredibly busy week, and all the days have kind of blurred together. This morning, though, I had the chance to enjoy some quiet time out on the front porch with the dogs, an iced coffee, and a book before church. It was lovely.

#5JoysFriday #DaiseysJoys #NaturaLitsy #ATreeADay

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w

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GatheringBooks

The Tree in Me | Corinna Luyken

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#JulyJazz Day 5: This is a gorgeously-illustrated title that demonstrates our one-ness with everything around us: from the tree to its fruits, from the wind to the bees, from the roots to the sky. It is an ode to nature, and the fact that we are #indivisible from it. It is told in such a lyrical way and the art is absolutely gorgeous.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Stacked! 3w

AmyG Beautiful illustrations. 3w

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Stacked! So pretty 😍 3w

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Robotswithpersonality

Lab Girl | Hope Jahren

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Truly unique in a way I know I'm going to struggle to do justice to.
First, please, please, do a tandem read on this. The audiobook is read by the author, whose voice is both genuine and a completely beautiful surprise. Her way with words will make you want to have the print in front of your eyes at the same time.
The format is quietly groundbreaking, taking moments to discuss the form, function and life cycle of plants, trees, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? each as a sort of introduction to a part of the author's history, a stage of her life.
Jahren covers the struggle for funding and recognition as a student, a scientist, a professor, a woman. Her personal mental health concerns accompanying her journey as a human, a scientist, and a pregnant woman, the mania and self-harm, the medication that improved life. Her relationships, loneliness staved off by one parent if not the other even as both 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? were admired, by a friend in the field that became a platonic partner in science and life, a husband who shares her values, a son that seems to heal part of her own childhood.
I think it's fair to say a significant portion of this book touches on the tandem journey her friend and colleague Bill is on as they struggle to build labs and deal with multifarious challenges. I should say that their banter/escapades runs the gamut between hilarious 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? and appalling, sort of giggling with one hand over your eyes kinda deal.
It's clear from the epilogue that Jahren wants every person who reads to do what they can for trees, especially seeing that there are more planted, but I think that there are several things that comes through clearly for me, which given what I'm hearing from the States these days, are unlikely to have become lower priority in the nine years since this book was published 3w

Robotswithpersonality 5/? Science needs more funding with less hoops to jump through, for scientists, support staff and space/equipment/materials
Women in science need more support, a matter of changing views as well as more tangible efforts which I'm sure there are professional organizations to spearhead
Continuing de-stigmatization of mental health concerns, and funding of health care and research, which will improve odds of accurate diagnoses and treatment 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 ⚠️description of animal slaughter, animal confinement, mental health concerns, birth complications
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Robotswithpersonality

Lab Girl | Hope Jahren

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