the prompt:  what will you usher in to begin to rectify the damage incurred by the agent of destruction you have banished?

i tried to avoid the prompt's easy direction from yesterday.  coming up with something genuine,  but small and personal.  I didn't want to go ……there…..because it's complicated in my mind.  Way too complicated for a collage by an old woman in a travel trailer in the woods.   would open up a thing that is a fetid place to this old woman.   But here it is again and i guess i just go there and say what i think is true and right even if awkwardly and insufficiently stated.   

If  THAT  one is gotten rid of,   it is only the beginning  at best,  of a whole new  wide open expanse of where we might go at this moment in time.  He is simply the standard bearer of the almost or The half of the population or voting population of this country.   If he becomes Gone,   then what?     What we face is still the cascading destruction of the planet which is our Life.  The reality is that WE have been at cause.   For YEARS.   Because of what we WANT and because of what we feel we should  HAVE.  And when i say WE,  i speak for my Kind.  Lets just call us european anglos.   or   white people.   There are flaws in this statement and Alyssia points them out when we get into the subject.  But i'll stick with  my  premise.    white people and whitish people like what they have.  They want to keep it.  And they now want to keep it for their children if they have the wherewithall to notice that things seem to be going South.    Their children.   But what of All the Children?  the bee children,  the tree children,  the fungal children,  on and on   all of humanity who have lived  purposefully and sincerely all over the globe.   

What about Everybody?    Every Thing…thing being all living things?   What about it?    All living things have allowed our lives to evolve.  We haven't noticed.   Cared to notice.   

I go to that beauty Full interview on Future Primitive with Daniel Christian Wahl that i was fortunate enough to find,  just in time.   So much is there.  But for the moment,  he says that  Because we designed this….this kind of life….we can RE design it.  

but what we need to do is           REALLY LOOK.   we need to SEE what is.   SEE who we are.   SEE what that means in the larger causal context of a living planet.   

 

 


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we have to ask questions.  We have to ask questions we have not thought we needed to ask before.  We need to Listen.

We need to LOOK and try to SEE.    We need to open to Who and What might have answers that will allow life to continue.  It's not about how many windmills it will take.   It's about Love.  Love of all of Life.  ALL of Life because we need it.   We need to learn to KNOW that.  It's All ONE.   

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19 responses to “bigger than i’d wanted to go”

  1. dee Avatar

    Even the ripped blue edge ragged and upward traveling has energy here.

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    When I thought about this, I went back to the comment that I posted on Acey’s blog in response to day 19: I wrote of a hypothetical collage and said this:
    “Below, the second half of the collage would be a glorious sun, a blue and green and beautiful, clean EARTH would shine forth and the globe would be circled by people of all colors and children dancing and koalas, polar bears, grizzly bears, black bears, kangaroos, whales, dolphins, fox, wolves, buffalo, squirrels, sandhill cranes, eagles, owls, chickens, cats, dogs, horses, spade foot toads, lizards and even snakes, although I am deathly afraid of them, all would come together AND our World would be whole again…”
    Talk about getting hit between the eyes, me wanting snakes in this world but something happened when I wrote those words… Do I now love them, well no and I’m pretty sure that I still cannot look at photos of them or see the real thing without shuddering but finally, I’ve come to see that we need all living things to make us whole and that to me is a huge revelation.

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  3. Jan Rowan Avatar
    Jan Rowan

    Yes, yes, yes, We created this…..we can create again and again……I know it is up to us to envision, dream, build a healthy new world…it is with such deep, deep love and connection that we must remember who we are….I treasure every soul who is there in that place already and is guiding our way there …..the energy goes to recreating the connections and doesn’t get distracted by”out there” for any length of time…..that is the challenge…

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  4. Acey Avatar

    so glad the old woman in the trailer bit the bullet because this is TRUTH from and for the heart & soul of humanity.
    so much LOVE.

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  5. Acey Avatar

    (and i love that you included a sea tortoise and that i contributed it)

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  6. Jacqui Avatar
    Jacqui

    For me Grace it is always about partnership. To really observe what occurs in the natural world. To sit beside a beehive and see the different colours of pollen on the legs of bees, leads my understanding of what is in flower, what they are doing inside their hive, what their needs are, what can I plant, what can I protect them from, how can I work with them to understand what they need from me. I dont think they need much from me except my understanding that they know so much more and not to interfere with them. I trust they understand my need to be in partnership with them. They are my eyes in a way to see what I can do, what I choose to not do, what it is in nature that can guide us from here forward. Bees are wonderful teachers.

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  7. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Yes. To all.

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  8. carol Avatar
    carol

    I could not LOVE this post more. The collage gives me the wamblies every time I gaze into it. You had me at the first sentence and will ponder that for some time to come. Copied into my journal, too big for my brain today.
    Shalom

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  9. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    So glad you went THERE! and I was Here to find it and read your wise words.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i hadn’t noted that…you are right

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    interesting to come to see things in a different light

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are so simple in their doings but those doings have Held them for thousands of years

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love. i love all your words above. Love.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Hey Peggy…WE are always
    here,
    right?

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