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To everyone in search of a final vocabulary... try oceanic feeling if you’re lost.

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Beingness is not attainable because it is the ever:present. Every attempt to attain beingness is also beingness. Belief is beingness as much as doubt. Beingness is inescapable...but it is temporary.

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collapsing biosphere

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Fruit Piercing Moth Caterpillar (Phyllodes sp., Calpinae, Erebidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese caterpillars on my Flickr site HERE…

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To make the cost of believing too great by loading it with implications.

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Blue Lagoon, Vanuatu by Jan Kokes

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Misty Road by Elliot Jenko

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Beautiful creatures live on this planet. Today an old lady walked by helped me move this creature off the bridge and onto the safety of this stump.

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If we can’t feel our sadness we can’t hold space for our shame and we’ll never be free. We’ll swing between cruelty and hiding forever.

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When I sense plants and other animals after a rain they usually seem happier. The smells are stronger the songs are louder. The mood seems to be more hopeful. Clearly this isn’t always the case. When I got here in October after the hurricane the general atmosphere seemed scared and mournful. So many fallen trees... the homes for millions of insects, microbes, tiny plants, and animals. All decades in the growing now gone in a weekend. The loss of trees also affects us humans deeply even if we aren’t aware. I’m reminded of myth of Jonah who was shaded by the caster oil tree while he resisted the promptings of a spirit to go and minister to the people of Nineveh. When a worm came and ate the plant causing it to die Jonah couldn’t handle the exposure and said, “It would have been better for me to die.” #### I think as the six mass extinction happens around us and we remain unaware of it we will begin to feel as Jonah did. Exposed on a planet that lost its living children. Nothing between us and the sun but our pride, and nothing left to be proud of but our total isolation. So here is a little admonition that I say to myself so I’m not surprised or riddled with guilt and shame as the world is being killed (by irresponsible leaders and capitalists and wealth seekers) around me: #### Minister to the trees and seek the approval of the wetlands heed the prophesy of the disappearing animals and become greedy for the happiness of the Earth. A living planet longs to live. A heart yearns to love. My life is too short to work for the accumulation of titles, positions, powers, monies, approval, or material comforts. Be simple. Be generous. Tend to the garden.