Kimberly M Post, PhD
@post4nature.bsky.social
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A social ecologist, writer, and creative living and working on unceded Wabanaki territory🦋
Imbolc Blessings! Remember that there is still good in the world. Love without hesitation and shine like the light you are! 🙏🏼🌞✨🤍
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Kimberly Post (@kimberlympost)
Midwinter brings a landscape of ice — branches glazed, rivers paused, air sharpened to crystal. But while the Earth’s frozen places retreat under a warming sky, another kind of ice persists: one built...
https://substack.com/@kimberlympost/note/c-207517287?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=g7dvs
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Some good news?
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Scientists "quite surprised" to find one polar bear population thriving: "A fat bear is a healthy bear"
After decades monitoring polar bears in Norway's far north, researchers say the animals have proven incredibly adaptable, but there are no guarantees for the future.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/polar-bears-fat-and-healthy-in-svalbard-scientists-surprised-to-find/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c2d7600ae15075913114
6 days ago
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If satellites suddenly couldn’t steer around one another, how much time would elapse before there was a crash in orbit? Their current answer: 5.5 days.
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Could a Solar Storm Trigger a Satellite Collision Crisis?
Could a solar storm trigger chaos in low Earth orbit?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-crash-clock
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We are now 85 seconds to midnight. ⌛💥https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-Doomsday-Clock-Statement.pdf
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https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-Doomsday-Clock-Statement.pdf
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One of the biggest markers of spiritual development in kids is a sense of awe. ✨https://www.templeton.org/news/wide-eyed-wonder-how-awe-shapes-childrens-spiritual-growth
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Wide-Eyed Wonder: How Awe Shapes Children’s Spiritual Growth
Keltner defines awe as “the emotion we experience when we encounter vast mysteries that we don’t understand.” And this emotion, Keltner discovered, is very, very good for us. Awe activates the vagus n...
https://www.templeton.org/news/wide-eyed-wonder-how-awe-shapes-childrens-spiritual-growth?utm_source=Receive+News+from+the+John+Templeton+Foundation&utm_campaign=50c525fcc2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_templetonideas_20260121&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-42837b4b08-97177974
9 days ago
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What’s precious within asks not to be understood, only felt, in still.
#micropoem
#tinypoem
#haiku
9 days ago
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I’ve been writing into the tension of this moment: human rights violated, communities splintered, the Earth bearing so much of our forgetting. This is my attempt to listen for the fragile threads of belonging that remain... and to honor how love persists 🙏🏻🪶
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A Bell, a Breath, a Raven
from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker
https://kimberlympost.substack.com/p/a-bell-a-breath-a-raven
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Suppressed climate report warned of mass migration and nuclear war
Unabridged document said disappearing forests and rivers drying up could drive people to Europe and lead to conflict in Asia
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/suppressed-climate-report-warned-of-mass-migration-and-nuclear-war-882zj0x2l
13 days ago
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Alan Stedman
19 days ago
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
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How Colombia plans to keep its oil and coal in the ground
The country’s new president has been vocal about plans to leave fossil fuel extraction behind. But the country faces an uphill struggle to do this in practice.
https://bbc.com/future/article/20221116-how-colombia-plans-to-keep-its-oil-and-gas-in-the-ground
19 days ago
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foggy January morning
#mainelife
#howisee
#meadowwalker
#winterview
20 days ago
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I shared a poem. This time it's not a
#tinypoem
#micropoem
#haiku
🌊🪶
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my selkie skin
My selkie skin is stitched of feathers, impossible proof that water and sky share language. Somewhere the hush between worlds still listens through me a drift of air a pulse of tide each translating t...
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlympost/p/my-selkie-skin?r=g7dvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
23 days ago
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January sunrise
#mainelife
#deeplooking
#natureisbeautiful
#meadowwalker
27 days ago
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What if winter survival meant weaving into the cold, not apart from it? Galium aparine shows how—patiently threading abundance through Maine's winter landscape.
#MoreThanHuman
#Sustainability
#Kinship
#EnvironmentalWriting
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Winter's Weave
from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlympost/p/winters-weave?r=g7dvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
27 days ago
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Eastern Bluebird
#mainelife
#winter
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28 days ago
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a joyful Goldfinch dancing
#howisee
#mainelife
#meadowwalker
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about 1 month ago
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Eastern Bluebird in flight
#meadowwalker
#howisee
#mainelife
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about 1 month ago
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goodbye to 2025, hello to possibilities 🙏🏼✨🌊
about 1 month ago
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In winter’s quiet, care endures in the unseen spaces – rooted in reciprocity, sheltered by snow.
#reciprocity
#kinship
#meadowwalker
#winter
#mainelife
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Tending What We Cannot See
from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlympost/p/tending-what-we-cannot-see?r=g7dvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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a rush of wings and water
#howisee
#winterwings
#maine
#impermanence
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about 1 month ago
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Sun unwraps the trees crystals burst in sudden flame day crowns winter’s reign.
#micropoem
#tinypoem
#haiku
#winter
about 1 month ago
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piping plovers and sea spray for Christmas
#mainelife
#natureisbeautiful
#beachwalker
#oceanlover
about 1 month ago
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Sharp cold cuts bright stars Ice hums beneath ermine dreams, Heaven leans closer.
#micropoem
#haiku
#tinypoem
#december
about 1 month ago
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a sliver of a moon on this Solstice night
#wintersolstice
#mainelife
#lookingup
#natureisbeautiful
about 2 months ago
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Happy Solstice All!
about 2 months ago
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fog and snow
#mainelife
#december
#natureisamazing
#theviewfromhere
about 2 months ago
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today’s sunrise with a wisp of moon
#mainelife
#lookingup
#natureisamazing
#december
about 2 months ago
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looking westward, early morning
#lookingup
#mainelife
#meadowwalker
#howiseetheworld
about 2 months ago
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A beautiful rebirth and a beautiful story 🐟🌊
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
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A River Reborn – Ben Goldfarb
Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan trace the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River, after four of its most obstructive da...
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-river-reborn/
about 2 months ago
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Over the past few months, I’ve shared reflections on reciprocity, kinship, belonging, and my meadow walks. This new piece offers a bit of the backstory – where my love of nature, my curiosity, and my reverence for the living, breathing world began.
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Kimberly Post (@kimberlympost)
Over the past few months, I’ve shared reflections on reciprocity, kinship, belonging, and my meadow walks. This new piece offers a bit of the backstory – where my love of nature, my curiosity, and my ...
https://substack.com/profile/27218440-kimberly-post/note/c-186849131?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=g7dvs
about 2 months ago
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Wind braids frozen stars Like luminous ellipses Bright against black night.
#haiku
#tinypoem
#micropoem
#december
about 2 months ago
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Kimberly M Post, PhD
Terrain.org
about 2 months ago
Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An interview with poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, by Elizabeth Jacobson.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/inscape-elizabeth-bradfield/
#interview
#poetry
#ecopoetry
#capecod
#writing
#naturalist
#books
#poets
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Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An Interview with Elizabeth Bradfield - Terrain.org
Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An interview with poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, by Elizabeth Jacobson.
https://www.terrain.org/2025/interviews/inscape-elizabeth-bradfield/
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Snow-writ equations, Spiraled galaxies of ice Orbit window glass.
#December
#micropoem
#tinypoem
#haiku
about 2 months ago
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Popham is one of my favorite beaches close to home. Every visit now my heart breaks to see the erosion/habitat changes from the increasingly strong storms and rising sea levels.
www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025...
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As erosion worsens, state considers future of Popham Beach State Park
The popular park is the fastest-eroding beach in Maine.
https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025-12-04/note-post-when-piece-airs-could-be-12as-erosion-worsens-state-considers-future-of-popham-beach-state-park
2 months ago
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fungus dreams
#farmersmarketfinds
#maine
#deeplooking
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside
#WomensArt
#FridayFeeling
#ArtAdvent
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“The origins of virtue, egalitarianism and morality are more ancient than our own species.”
www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au...
@noemamag.com
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The Moral Authority Of Animals | NOEMA
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-moral-authority-of-animals/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&
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2 months ago
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birch snow dreams
#howiseetheworld
#mainelife
#december
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2 months ago
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rising Bitter Moon
#lookingup
#mainelife
#supermoon
#natureisamazing
2 months ago
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and just like that ❄️❄️#meteorologicalwinter
#mainelife
#december
#natureisbeautiful
2 months ago
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Wind lets last leaves go Fragile splendors fold like wings Earth opens her hand.
#micropoem
#tinypoem
#haiku
#December
2 months ago
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Flooded roots and ash Changing climate in tree rings I touch bark and stay.
#haiku
#micropoem
#tinypoem
2 months ago
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a stunning sky
#natureisamazing
#mainelife
#lookingup
#nofilter
#clouds
2 months ago
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A hidden bog and lessons from wild cranberries.🐿️🍃 In this giving season, this humble berry teaches quiet resilience amid uncertainty, and invites us to give thanks for shared abundance.
#reciprocity
#thanksgiving
#kinship
#community
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The Humble Cranberry
from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlympost/p/the-humble-cranberry
2 months ago
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Crow talk in the oak As dark wings stir brittle air, Breath and Earth entwine.
#tinypoem
#micropoem
#haiku
2 months ago
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Scattering unspools World in perpetual flight, Song sparrows ascend.
#micropoem
#haiku
#tinypoem
#autumn
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3 months ago
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A short but sweet memory from before the cold really started to set in. 🍎🧺
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Crab Apples and Rosehips
from A Year in the Life of a Meadow Walker
https://substack.com/@kimberlympost/note/p-179492851?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=g7dvs
3 months ago
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Leaves, birds, or birds, leaves? The wild reciprocity Of autumn’s great dance.
#haiku
#tinypoem
#micropoem
#november
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3 months ago
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Kimberly M Post, PhD
Andri Snær Magnason
3 months ago
The 19th of November in the Technological University of Dublin.
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
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Storytelling for a Changing Climate with Andri Magnason
Storytelling for a Changing Climate with Andri Magnason
https://www.tudublin.ie/explore/about-the-university/sustainability/about/news-and-events/storytelling-for-a-changing-climate-with-andri-magnason.php
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