We’ve gone global with nearly everything, and many of us spend countless hours of our lives longing for things that our ancestors neither dreamed of, nor needed, to live happy lives.
What is Success Anyway?
Everything we label successful is provisional, contextual, and impermanent. The same can be said about failure.Every “winning” situation seems to contain elements of its undoing. Everything we label successful is provisional, contextual, and impermanent. The same can be said about failure.
Earth Risin’
There are things we cannot understand in this world. We try to find some place within or hearts to come to peace with the reality of those that continually divide us as humans, and as result destroying the “all.” Until we see one tribe, we will continue on a path of human destruction. This poem is a way for the writer to come to terms within herself and a need to see the end of killing. When youth are killed, a great consciousness is torn apart as well.
Do You Need to be Productive? Why?
How much of our “need” to be productive is driven by external pressures that are more about making someone else rich and/or powerful, than about fulfilling some internal human desire?
The Fleeting Life of Irises
Beautiful iris. Soon this photograph will be all that is left. Some might say the same of the Earth itself. Modern civilization seems to be in the business of manufacturing impermanence.
Confronting Weakness, Rising to the Task
When the New York Rescue Commission carried out an experiment questioning the invisibility of the homeless, reactions were mixed. Many wondered what the video expected of them. I did too. Maybe our reactions would be different, if we chose to look beyond our weaknesses
The Truth Is…
Are adages and proverbs based on the way we should live our lives, or in a perfect world and if we weren’t humans, these are the rules we should follow?
Slippery Slope
‘Singularity’ is what they called it. If only they’d called it ‘Pluralism’ from the start, then maybe more of us would have smelled a ratbot. Maybe more of us would have cried out “Pluralism my ASS! This is the biggest separatist movement since apartheid!!”
Environmentalists Need to Remember the Weeds
Last July, I saw a pair of monarchs in a field. The first I had seen all season. Summer nearly halfway over and not a single monarch! This is one of the consequences of colonialism and economies built on profit and endless growth. The loss of biodiversity.
The Economics of Male Grief
The worst aspects of capitalism require humans to turn into machines. Cut off from our bodies. Cut off from our emotional worlds. Cut off, often, from the needs of the very Earth we live on, and are made of.
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