Beautiful and true. Fierce Love invites honest, vulnerable engagement as it also shields against indifference. Grateful to you as you make yourselves vulnerable on this journey of empathetic inquiry.
Wow. Glad I subscribed! This story needs to be heard. We need words to inspire us, help us know that action can still be so much more than a potentially futile gesture in the face of ‘unstoppable’ juggernaut forces. I salute you both.
Over consumption is not being addressed. We are sold a future in which we of the industrial nations would not need to change-- we can still enjoy our Netflix programs and Amazon packages, our car trips, jet flights and cell phones. This conveniently shifts the focus away from us to the Hydrocarbon industries. To the executives and politicians. Not to us.
This Earth, 'territory' is very sick. I can feel it. Healers might fix it, with luck perhaps. There are no grantees. It could be too late to save this precious living sanctuary alone in a lifeless night of the cosmos. There is no hope if we continue to expand our footprint, expand our cities, our solar farms, our off-shore wind farms. We know deep inside that this is not the answer. Us, the lucky inhabitants of the privileged industrial nations. We know. Even those who claim they are not convinced that climate change is real. They too know. We have known for a very long time, millennia. We are loath to recognize that still, small voice in the wind.
Our species is not better that any other species in terms of our right to life, liberty and happiness. All beings deserve such. For more that two-thousand centuries we have lived like all the others of this family of Earth-siblings. Maybe, if the climate grants us grace beyond what we surely deserve in the industrial world, we may have the chance to help this precious living orb find its way into the Eons left to it, before the Sun dies.
I’m also very glad that I subscribed. My hope is subscribing fulfilled even in the first article! I will be reading it with my teenage granddaughter. Thank you!
Beautiful and true. Fierce Love invites honest, vulnerable engagement as it also shields against indifference. Grateful to you as you make yourselves vulnerable on this journey of empathetic inquiry.
Wow. Glad I subscribed! This story needs to be heard. We need words to inspire us, help us know that action can still be so much more than a potentially futile gesture in the face of ‘unstoppable’ juggernaut forces. I salute you both.
Absolutely love the writing in this article.
A wonderful blend of painting, reporting and storytelling.
The message is clear and needs to be heard.
Thank you.
Thank you Peter! Great to see you here.
Over consumption is not being addressed. We are sold a future in which we of the industrial nations would not need to change-- we can still enjoy our Netflix programs and Amazon packages, our car trips, jet flights and cell phones. This conveniently shifts the focus away from us to the Hydrocarbon industries. To the executives and politicians. Not to us.
This Earth, 'territory' is very sick. I can feel it. Healers might fix it, with luck perhaps. There are no grantees. It could be too late to save this precious living sanctuary alone in a lifeless night of the cosmos. There is no hope if we continue to expand our footprint, expand our cities, our solar farms, our off-shore wind farms. We know deep inside that this is not the answer. Us, the lucky inhabitants of the privileged industrial nations. We know. Even those who claim they are not convinced that climate change is real. They too know. We have known for a very long time, millennia. We are loath to recognize that still, small voice in the wind.
Our species is not better that any other species in terms of our right to life, liberty and happiness. All beings deserve such. For more that two-thousand centuries we have lived like all the others of this family of Earth-siblings. Maybe, if the climate grants us grace beyond what we surely deserve in the industrial world, we may have the chance to help this precious living orb find its way into the Eons left to it, before the Sun dies.
I’m also very glad that I subscribed. My hope is subscribing fulfilled even in the first article! I will be reading it with my teenage granddaughter. Thank you!
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