It is a well, and often repeated truth of history that we can’t learn from the truth of history.
Why is this so? I would like to posit that it is not always so. It’s jut that when we do network, innovate, collaborate, and cooperate with each other, there is…
Our human psychology evolved with yes/no, up/down, hunt or gather directives. We, thus, learned and earned our lives. Is it a threat? A lunch? Friend or foe?
We collected in small bands that needed in-group, out-group dynamics.
Modern humans got by very well this way for three hundred thousand years…
The two dolls are Carla and Valerie.
Carla is mine, (in this photo, a rather possessed looking spook), Valerie came to me from two previous “doll moms.”
Before my mother died, she was very active. Her closest friend, the only other woman whom she still knew, Francine, was active too.
…
My family came from Canada, from a world so green
Tall trees, mountains. Rivers of lace and blue sateen
The world has long since gone crazy, hotter every year
Consumed by our addictions, polarized in hateful fear
With shiny machines that promised us the world
Insatiable needs buried us, each into…
Our most selfish instinct is to take more than our share.
Our species created stories to tell us this is the correct way, to conquer, to dominate, to exploit, and to expand our power.
This can’t work on a finite, and connected world.
Recently, it came to light that gigantic, rich, and powerful fossil fuel corporations have been gaslighting us for decades about taking personal responsibility for pollution, recycling, and every imprint of each carbon footprint on Earth.
That is, their greenwashing campaigns are all about how they are doing their part, but…
One giant leap for humankind.
That is all we need,
One giant leap, dark past behind
No toxins in fuel or feed
We’ll have ten billion people here
Needing place, and food
Needing work, fighting fear,
Needing space, metal, and wood
Years ago, we embraced science
Rockets! To the moon!
Now we…
We all strive to be exceptional. This is as we’re taught. We need to see ourselves as in constant pursuit of being better, doing better, and living better.
Yet, something happens in the process. We program our minds to exclude the others.
Who are the others?
The others, are any…
The news is too upsetting, if you doomscroll, you know
Limited use, there is, in fretting, and we need somewhere to go
Might I prescribe the garden? The trees around your place
Where sky matches your expression, tears, sometimes on her face…
But there is also sunshine, and often the…
Escaped pets usually end up on posters, but not these slow-moving, hand-sized dinosaurs that perch on the purple blooms and eat butterflies all day.
My husband likes to say that if you can’t see them “that’s how you know they are there.” The camouflaged capability of all chameleons is well…
