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There's a bell that I've taken around with me wherever I've lived
I can't remember where I got it, maybe in Portland at the Japanese Garden
And I've often hung it up outside and the sound has become familiar, even as all the places I've lived have changed for so long
And that familiar feeling just hit me as I rode up this little hill through an orchard towards the cabin that I'm living in these days
I never really realized I'd developed a familiarity with it until that moment
Now I'm standing out kind of more towards the field behind the cabin looking at a willow that's flowering and the first bumblebees I've seen this year are collecting nectar and pollen from the flowers
That's pretty hopeful
Back in the forest behind the edge of the woods there's a giant ant nest, the biggest I've ever seen actually
It's probably home to hundreds of thousands of ants
It's probably four or five feet wide, a couple feet tall
It's been there who knows how long
Old growth ant nest, ant pile
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