Each day offers the challenge of ‘hearing what is not said, to see what cannot be seen.’
These daily dispatches, lasting 108 days, provide a window into ways we might learn and grow through these storms – in this extraordinary season - as we find ways to see and face the horizon as we go.
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No. 97 of 108
Whoa! Addiction to revenge! Sigh.
No. 96 of 108
In this moment of historic global chaos, are we the bacteria, the sea star, the sea urchin, the kelp, the carbon dioxide, the storm surge, the scientist, the folx who support the scientist? Yes.
No. 95 of 108
Why do we do it? Say it, gesture it, spew venom, cast poisonous shade, violently cancel?
No. 94 of 108
Will the tools be used in dependent ways that shrink/stunt/freeze our complex understanding muscles? That’s on us.
No. 93 of 108
Or… with you do your thing, I’ll do mine? Or… with I’m right! and you are %&*# wrong!
No. 92 of 108
“You have no idea what you have just unleashed.” Who said this?
No. 91 of 108
Once upon a very long moment, for all of our ancestors, collaboration was a prized traditional way of the peoples.
No. 90 of 108
Realities continue to cleave, rearrange themselves, escalate and reflexively push back harder, with more judgement and violence.
No. 89 of 108
The last time I spoke of climate change and ice cream together was in post #37, in which was advised: “enjoy responsibly”.
No. 88 of 108
Responses to escalations become the justification for further escalation, the circular nature obvious to observers but not to participants.
No. 87 of 108
Since math is not just simple arithmetic, the universe will produce ironic plot twists to remind us: the universe keeps connecting us, and the more we attempt to control it the more twisted our lives become.
No. 86 of 108
How did we create so much distance between our daily existence and all the people and things which make it possible?
No. 85 of 108
In an era of sharp divisions and sharp elbows, we are counting on leaders to move boldly, and to bridge and persuade as they go, especially in the face of rulers who double-down, deny and destroy
No. 84 of 108
Well, you may have missed this news while doomscrolling in an unhelpful position
No. 83 of 108
As the fights continue, let us be clear-eyed and desirous of the world we want our descendants to thrive in.
No. 82 of 108
Who are We? What do We Stand for? Why? Towards what Ends?
No. 81 of 108
A heartening shout out to all those who arise for a better possibility in the face of threats and harm, be they regular folx flying flags and singing in the streets or those with positional authority using all of their authorities.
No. 80 of 108
We, the peoples and beings who are in the place currently ruled, the peoples and beings who need the labor, heart, experience, dedication, and persistence of workers who work for the greater whole, now in a hole of rulers’ making
No. 79 of 108
In times of collapse and values-neutral contradictions, danger, ambition, and opportunity meet, flirt, jostle and surge to fill any void of power and influence.
No. 78 of 108
Will these female personifications of governance fall as anachronisms?