We have been living a myth. We have constructed a dream. We have cajoled and seduced ourselves into believing we are the center of all things; with plants and other sentient beings from ants to lizards to coyotes and grizzly bears, remaining subservient to our whims, desires, and needs. This is a lethal lie that will be seen by future generations... See more

Imagine that the earth we are experiencing now is like a star.

Many of the stars we see have already died.

What we experience as that guiding bright beauty,

is the residue of something time and the eye has not caught up with.

If the apocalypse already happened,

then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.

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The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces.

The worm drives helically through the wood

And does not know the dust left in the bore

Once made the table integral and good;

And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.

Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,

A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;

The names of lovers, light of other days --

Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.

The universe winds... See more