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Perry J. Greenbaum 🇨🇦 🦜's avatar

I enjoyed this essay and it is true, to a point, that the virtural, the unreal, the make-believe has crept it and made people believe that what they see, read and feel is real.

But the fun and games of the little boys playing with their tech toys is coming to an end. An inglorious one, to be sure.

I would not call it a sorry end; I would call it a necessary end. We humans are finding out that Mother Nature is no fool, although we have long taken her for one. Make no mistake; the virtural is no match for the real.

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With or without substances the natural world in my experience may welcome or reject my presence - or ignore it entirely. I just got back from a week in my home territory, the Golden Valley and environs, from Abergavenny to Hereford, Kington to Ross, and the NW was a bit standoffish, miffed about city life and America, and so on: oh, I suppose American trees are so much bigger, right? And did you miss the drizzle? Here, have some! But on the whole the landscape was glad to see me I to be in it, on it, of it.

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