Sublime

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to remember our origins at a time when we seek to turn ourselves into gods.

We exist, not as wholly singular, autonomous beings, nor completely merged, but in a fluctuating space in between. This idea was expressed beautifully in Desmond Tutu’s explanation of the South African concept of Ubuntu. He said, “It is to say, my humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours. We belong in a bundle of life. We say a

We are acknowledging that we are all in the same business of coping with suffering and finding out what it means to be fully human.

For only a very tiny sliver of that time, we’ve been organized in empires, doing this large-scale fucked up shit to the Earth and to each other. The vast majority of our wisdom, of our deep ecological knowledge, our ancestral wisdom, our ways of being in the world, is to care for each other in community. I have an exceedingly high level of