Mountains, glaciers, time, places, wild, nature, domestic, faces. A friend demands, if ONLY our senators saw these spaces! Instead of destruction more protection. More conservation. More appreciation. “We’re running out of time!”, our scientists proclaim. Humans feeling bigger than our world, more demanding day by day.
Looking out at Alaska, watching glaciers retreat, there exists the smallness we are all meant to feel. The water, the animals, the wind, the Natives, they are all teachers – WHY have we ignored them? In ignorance our world struggles to breath; running out of trees, of habitats, of kindness. Watching bears tumble one after another. Watching birds bob and dip beneath the surface. Watching whales roar and become ballerinas, arching and diving. This is the world as it is meant to be. Our world, our cosmos, our Universe. And who are we? It is easy to become pessimistic. To turn away, those scientists are silly, let’s keep on expanding, consuming! There’s no point in turning the boat around now. We are top of the pyramid! We can roar just like those whales. Who taught us this narrative, when did it begin? Just like my friend says, if you saw this land – this state, you too would think twice. You would breathe in, breathe deep. And see that you are small, and this world is big. It does not need us. We need it.
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