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Love this so much.

I'm often amazed how little people are connected to the nature around them. I reckon I live in one of the most stunning places in the world, but I am quite biased. 😊 I worship daily at this alter of planet earth. I find it unimaginable that I talk to a friend who has just come out of a coffee shop with her personal $50 pottery takeaway cup and she hasn't even noticed the fresh dusting of snow on Mt Roy or that there was a full moon last night.

And I love the Swedish cow call!

Thank you. xx

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I am as well—the story of the man on the beach is just one of so many examples how far we have removed ourselves from our own planet. Curious, where do you live? I'm in northern California, a gorgeous place to live in.

The kulning call (the ancient Scandinavian herding calls) is mesmerizing. I could listen to it all day. We've lost touch with so much of our own histories and myths. Ironically, it's the same technology that can help us reconnect. But we need to do the work, and get out there!

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Northern California is supposed to be gorgeous. I've only been to San Francisco in California, which I loved as a city. I have lived in Wānaka, New Zealand for 21 years. Prior to that, the North Island beaches of New Zealand.

I'm part Swedish ( great grandfather) but unfortunately don't think I have inherited those cow calling genes. 😊

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I tend to agree. The paradox of the world being so much smaller, yet us being so disconnected from our food, goods, and one another is endlessly fascinating, and reinvigorating the connections is incredibly important.

At the same time, all of these swirling forces are keeping us apart and seeking to divide us (from one another, and from the Earth and its direct resources). We are like a little ship bobbing up and down while an enormous tsunami carries us around.

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It really is a striking paradox. Think of how long it used to take for a single letter to arrive in another country... now all we need is email, which is instant. Not suggesting we go back to sending letters by ship! But the pendulum has swung far too much to the other side, and it's time to stabilize it. It's about a more meaningful usage of the technology we have, rather than innovation for its own (or profits') sake.

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Nuance and balance? Too much thinking required! I'm out.

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