What A Trip!
Who Could Have Imagined?
That’s a photo, not a painting.
Measured in geologic time we were invited here very recently. Those are some of our predecessors still flourishing on the edge of what we have done, trying to subdue the planet to serve what we perceive to be our own ends.
They inhabit the much larger piece of the planet than. What possessed us to leave the ocean remains a mystery.
Yes, I have become a bit of a Johnny-one-note, that we’ve misunderstood how we might flourish here.
If there is a key to our ongoing tenure here – not to become an early extinction – it may be surrendering our hubris about being the crown of creation, and embracing the reality that we are one species among many. Our well-being, as we keep saying, depends on the well-being of all that supports and partners with us.
Hard to picture just what this might look like. I hope it’s more than hope that makes me think there is growing appreciation for, and awareness of, the value and significance of our cousin species.
Because, like our parents’ siblings’ children, those other species are kin. We have more DNA in common, than difference.
In the same way our psychic health depends on embracing human kin, so embracing our profound gratitude for everything around us that sustains us, might alter the way we behave as the planet challenges us to adopt new strategies for being part of the planetary family.