i used to gaze at the ocean, drawing peace from its vast wildness, feeling secure that here was a force that was so pure and huge we would never fuck it up, now i know better, and worry about that.

what is especially frustrating/enticing about all this, is the feeling that the only way we can experience balance and sustainability is by becoming different people, more pacific, less predatory.

vegetarianism, or at least more than a token move in that direction, really could and does make a difference to this, on both micro and macro levels.

just as important as changing our light bulbs, imo.

perhaps religion (not spirituality!) has contributed to this turn of events by encouraging fatalism and abnegation of responsibility, handing over our power to self-proclaimed 'experts'.

if we make it through this coming bottleneck as a species, i think it will entail rethinking who we are right down to the core, and thre letting go of much we have become attached to, and worse, felt entitled to.

it might be the biggest fall we have ever taken, but it will be far from the first, and some will carry forward some of the essence of what we suffered and learned the hard way, into a future we can only wonder about.

in other words, those it doesn't kill will be made of much stronger stuff, and when and if the dust settles, our memories will become very important.

so i'm trying to take a good, long, hard look at what's around me and trying to engrave it as deeply as i can....

very grateful for your voice here, though sometimes it's not what i thought i wanted to read!

there's something crystalline about how you put things.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~