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Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Moss Snow Storm - When I Was a Skinny Kid in Short Pants, Butterflies Perceived My Soul

When i was a skinny kid in short pants, butterflies entered my soul. I thought they were remarkable. Only it was a time when i should have had terrible feelings, but i had no feelings. And the feelings for the butterflies filled this hole, as it were. From that moment on, i began to love the natural world,. albeit in fairly strange circumstances. It took me fifty years and psychotherapy to discover whyd we are so attached to nature....

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