11/18/2025
This is a common experience with a simple remedy
“I’m afraid of what people will think if I’m talking to a plant or a rock or any other other-than-human being.”
Understood.
But remember that communication is not limited to words.
How might you express through touch?
Through sound or vibration (even a simple melody)?
Through movement or presence?
There are many non-verbal ways of bonding.
Notice the being you are connecting with. How do they “speak”?
When humanity was severed from the rest of Nature some gruesome punishments were used to enforce compliance… shame is a remnant and can be just as persuasive. But we got this🌿