nature
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The Quiet Bloom
A personal reflection – Wake Up Retreat at Healing Spring Monastery The flowers in the monastery field bloomed this morning. I walked the same path I’ve taken every day this past week—quiet, familiar, worn by my footsteps and the rhythm of my thoughts. But today, something shifted. The light fell differently, or maybe my eyes…
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The Moldy Aesthetic
From the Petri Dish to the Canvas, Fungus and Bacteria are “Cultured“ Gala Porras-Kim, “Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing” (2022) © courtesy of the artist; photograph Andy Keate; exh. Gasworks, London It was the first time I had to walk through a plastic sheet to enter a museum room. That…

