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wookiedharma @wookiedharma.bsky.social · Apr 4
to see with a staggering wonder, imagine that you live there. and, that you love it with all your heart. because it is your home. however small of a critter you’d need to be to feel this spot is heaven. don’t move until you see it. practice this often.
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Where life finds root upon the stone—
a seed grateful for driftwood's dust where the ancient cedar's journey ends in a final gift, upon a rock that knows only cold and sun.

The forest's slow, eternal breath turns all things to soil in faith of the seed and ever makes a new world from what was lost.
image of coastal zone between ocean and forest with exposed rock giving way to the forest where several large driftwood trees, that are bleached and battered, decompose into the future soil. poem inspired by #oliver #eiseley #thoreau
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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the earth is an embarrassment of riches. the magic of a sunrise is all i really need…

the sound on this clip are the happy birds floating in these waters singing their praise for the new day. also several whales were breathing their massive breaths but i could never see them thru the morning mists.
October 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I rarely post about current events, but sharing a quick thought about #FederalReserve #Inflation #USDollar #Economy #SCOTUS #Finance

if anyone wants more info, read this: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
The media is failing to cover the biggest financial threat of our lifetime. The political attack on the Federal Reserve’s independence—now before the Supreme Court—is not a boring policy debate. It's an existential threat to the dollar because it’s a precursor to the de facto default on the national debt. When the firewall of the Fed’s independence falls, there is nothing left to anchor the fiat dollar to reality. Once global trust is broken, the dollar’s value will collapse. The cost of everything will soar, and life savings will plummet. The unrivaled privileges Americans enjoy because the dollar is the world's reserve currency will disappear. Compared to this, misguided tariff policies are a minor distraction. Like it or not, guarding the Fed's independence isn't an obscure economic theory—it is the last line of defense protecting the U.S. dollar and the stability of your money. #FederalReserve #Inflation #USDollar #Economy #SCOTUS #Finance
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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bella and me at our favorite spot on cortes.
man kneeling down to love on his dog who is nuzzling into him. the setting is beautiful. both are on a wide mountain rock that overlooks the ocean in 270 degrees with mountains in the distance across the bay.
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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scene from morning paddle… the light on the water was mesmerizing. #cortesisland
September 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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i’m grateful this is my view when doing downward dog during sunrise #yoga in 🇨🇦✌️
upside down view of sky, bay and granite rock from cortes island, bc while i am standing on a rocky bluff overlooking the bay and looking at the beauty upside down (between my legs) as i do a downward facing dog yoga stretch. its a beautiful, and dizzying, image!
September 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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heading home in gratitude
#islandlife
September 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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bella exploring low tide at botanical beach near port renfrew (in the territory of the Pacheedaht and Lkwungen First Nations) yesterday… it was nice to have low clouds misting us on and off as we explored the tidepool mysteries that are so full of urchins and anemones!!
bella, the 4 year old golden retreiver, mid-step as she trots along the sandstone near the shore at botanical beach. the black rocks and trees fading into the clouds serves as a beautiful background.
August 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Bella enjoying the early evening sunshine in the woods behind our house
A picture of my 4 year old golden retriever puppy named Bella who is standing on a narrow fallen tree in the woods as she looks up into the sun with her eyes closed and a happy smile upon her whiskery face. The tree she that she has all four paws on is covered in a verdant green moss. The nearby trees are fairly well spaced in what is a stand of mostly cedar trees. The angle of the sun is making long shadows in the early evening sun.
July 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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me and bella communing with nature on mount wells amidst the sacred arbutus and oak tree friends. i’m told that the indigenous peoples of the Nuu-chah-nulth nation refer to the arbutus tree as "tl'owit", which I am told means ‘bark tree’. #happydog
me and bella sitting on the ground near two large moss covered boulders amidst a stand of arbutus and oak trees in the early evening.
July 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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bella exploring the juan de fuca trail on western vancouver island with the olympic mountains visible in the far distance #happydog

aside from the beauty, i especially appreciated that the temp was only 18 degrees celsius on july 16th.
July 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I love them. they are the tallest/oldest beings we know. they inhabit an almost timeless realm where even death lasts longer than most other lives.

in a world focused on the fastest, these ancient sentinels build their sandcastles in the sky. always giving.
even as they disappear…

#treehugger
Trees release organic compounds through their roots (root exudates). These compounds include sugars, amino acids, and organic acids, which enhance the availability of nutrients and ions in the soil. —Root exudates stimulate microbial activity in the soil (near the roots). This increased microbial activity can lead to the breakdown of organic matter and the release of additional nutrients and ions. —The presence of tree roots improves soil structure by creating channels and spaces that enhance aeration and water infiltration. This can lead to better nutrient retention and availability. —Trees contribute to the accumulation of organic matter through leaf litter and decaying roots. This organic matter can enhance the soil's cation exchange capacity (CEC), allowing it to hold more positively charged ions (cations) like calcium, magnesium, and potassium. —Trees can resonate with certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. The height and shape of a tree can influence its ability to absorb and respond to EM signals, similar to how antennas are designed to capture specific wavelengths. —The conductive properties of water within the tree and the presence of ions in the sap can enhance the tree's ability to interact with EM fields (from solar and geomagnetic phenomena). Trees grow ‘into’ the EM field, its why they spiral. And why trees exposed to EM radiation from power lines exhibit changes in growth patterns, leaf morphology, and overall health (trees growing near high-voltage power lines showed differences in growth compared to those further away) —The field of bioelectromagnetics explores the interactions between living organisms and electromagnetic fields. Research in this area has examined how plants can detect and respond to EM signals, including the potential for trees to act as bioindicators of environmental changes.
June 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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spring in northern washington
#happydog
An ai cartoon anime image of my golden retriver, Bella, trotting down the country road we have been living off of the past two months. The road is lined by yellow dandelions and pink and blue forget-me-nots and towering cedar, fir and maple trees with a thick understory of every variety of fern you can imagine. Everything is blooming or has just bloomed and is now filling the air with a snowglobe flurry of fluffy seeds that dance in the low sun as if they are celebrating being alive! and even when resting on the ground, they are so attracted to Bella’s pure love that whenever Bella goes prancing by on her unrivalled adventures they get all excited again and swirl around her magnetic presence. This is the road that leads to a gorgeous trail that winds its way through patches of berry bushes toward the glacial blue nooksack river that is riding high with spring snowmelt. It is an insanely beautiful valley and I am filled with gratitude at being lucky to witness the full glory of spring as the symphony of plants continually replinishes my love in an ever-so-muted siren song that subtly heralds an ageless faith in a seed.
May 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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some pics from yesterday’s hike along hannegan pass as the low clouds continually reframed the peaks in exquisite ways… #happydog #outside
picture across the valley of river, snow, steep mountain and misty clouds. various peaks are visible through the mists. the gorgeous hike was made even more magical by the steady gentle rain… in the mid-90s, i went to the rainforest in peru during the wet season where it rained 15+hrs everyday… i became very comfortable being in the rain, and learned to be filled with gratitude for the miraculous nature of our rain — this is the only place in the known universe where it rains life-giving water. my dog being oddly still long enough for a panorama of the valley and the trail going into the cascades on a gorgeous cloudy day
May 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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spectacular trail magic✨ yesterday! we were hiking in the rain looking for the oldest spruce tree in washington when the sun suddenly pierced the grey day with a vivid brillance like a portal opening into another dimension.
image of a double rainbow in the wilderness, with a small creek in the immegiate forwground and a hint of a bigger river behind it, and on the other side of the river bank is a vibrant rainbow. above the rainbow is another rainbow that is more faint. the sky is grey except under the smaller rainbow in which everything is illuminated by the sun in full vibrancy. it looks magical. same scene but this picture is close to the river, of blue-green glacial melt waters, and shows my wet golden retriever in the foreground, looking adventurously adorable. the higher rainbow is more faint at this point and both rainbows are moving further away as the sun continues to descend in the early evening sky.
May 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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One amazingly obvious, yet overlooked, fact that plants teach us is that being in the right place at the right time means a whole lot…

ps. additional thoughts about how this realtes to biological determinism and free will in the alt txt of the picture.
nature vs nurture is a false dichotomy. we are all filled with a countless number of protein-machines that ceaselessly execute our respective genetic codes and produce protein outputs that go forth and do innumerable things, or they don’t… whether these proteins enable you to grow normally, whether they enable you to have all senses to experience, and to metabolize foods and absorb vitamins and maintain fluctuating hormone levels and to be able to learn things (the first time or the 100th time)… and whether you have strength or speed… all of this frames how you experience life and how you learn… whether you have the biochemistry to be filled with anxiety, fear, depression, or anger about the world… or, are filled with eagerness to explore the unpredictable beauty of the world… or, whether you are an addict and don’t have the ability to stop drinking alcohol or having sex… or, whether you feel like a boy in a girl’s body… whether you feel like two different people or not… etc… all of these factors shape who you were, who you are, and who you will become… in this way, free will is bounded by biological boundaries… however, there is still an infinite amount of free will within those boundaries… similar to the infinite amount of art that can be placed inside a frame. this picture — of baby trees growing along a lazy creek in a field of rocks resulting from a historic flood years ago of the nooksack river — reinforced this idea of biological determinism in my mind… because most humans are so mobile, we often ignore this lesson that plants teach us about how location (and by extension biological attributes) matters… ✌️
May 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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waterfall into the snow on the heliotrope ridge trail yesterday. the snow is melting fast now. i’m continually amazed that once the snow melts it will be in the ocean with maybe two hours… the circle of life is so very cool. #happydog
May 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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i love how bella gets dew freckles from her morning sniffs 😍
close-up picture of my golden retriever’s nose with water droplets on her snout from her morning sniffs amidst the grasses and flowers.
May 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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the word ‘blessing’ carries, perhaps, too heavy a lift…
a day in the life
YouTube video by wookiedharma
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May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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my first trip on the glorious hannegan pass trail in the mt baker wilderness on the westside of the north cascades natpark. #happydog
The first pic shows me standing on the left of the image on a snow bank (that is the remnants of an avalanche that buried the trail) looking over the valley to the opposing mountains that have such a steep massivebess that it creates a bit of an optical illusion and makes it seem like I am standing next to the mountain, but i’m really very far away from it. illusion aside, i’m in a john muir pose (whatever that means) and am leaning on my hiking pole deep in thought about the beauty that surrounds me. This second picture shows the same valley as the orevious picture on the same hime but from a different point (lower) on the trail and this shows how broad the valley is. And, my adorable golden retriever puppy is posing while laying down between my legs as I stand over her.
April 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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the japanese concept of wabi-sabi that looks for beauty in life’s imperfections.
because you see what you look for…

so why not look for beauty?
a closeup picture of many rocks of different sizes, shapes and colors lying on the ground. not shown: the rocks are near a river of glacial blue waters joyously coming off mt baker in northern washington state in the water’s rapid transition from snowy peak to ocean droplet as it deposits the mountain’s long held minerals into the ocean to feed the plankton and then the entire marine ecosystem and then into the salmon that swims the minerals back into the mountains for the bears and all the mountain critters until it travels into the dirt and becomes plant over and over again… notably, several of the picture’s rocks are cracked and are ever so slowly splitting even further as they display various degrees of fracturing in this moment — beauty because of its impermanence despite its seemingly infinite scale of time… this is pure trail magic✨ that doubles as a reminder to see the setbacks of the day with a similar eye towards appreciating the inspiring beauty of that which is imperfect, broken, fracturing and crumbling… invoking a reverent gratitude that enables you to surf the awe all around you and duckdive the gnarly waves that may come your way with a grace that recognizes how others are frantically trying to escape the undertow of their own imperfections… even volatile emotions can be seen as a blessed testament to the miracle of being alive… everything is treasure! #ahimsa
April 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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feeln grateful for another glorious day in the snow with my good buddy #happydog
A picture of a man kneeling on the snow as his golden retriever snuggles into him. The picture is taken in the backcountry ski area on mt baker on the trail to artist point with a beautiful background of muktiple snowy mountain peaks and some nearby evergreen trees.
April 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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“we are all greater than we can conceive “ — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
happy golden retriever standing on grass in foreground with mt baker in the background illuminated by the rays of the setting sun.
April 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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this happy little moss was having a splendid day along the nooksack cirque trail yesterday

“the goodness of the world grows like moss… nourished by something unseen.”
-k. bishop
April 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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a view from today’s hike along the gorgeous nooksack river…

trail thoughts were focused on appreciating the incredible amount of power within our intentions… we can manifest our reality!!

deep dive on that thought — it goes deep… ✌️
April 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM