Baron, Thank you so much for this essay. It makes me feel less alone. I have been walking around the house all morning feeling terribly bereft of any belief in human "goodness." It seems the more the earth is threatened by our actions, the more rapacious and cruel we become. The only thing I trust is the oak leaf blown onto the grass. Not the grass, mown and fed for the benefit of...what...my reflection as a good member of society? Not myself, human-centered creature so angry at "them" I lose all compassion in my own dark soul. This nightmare once felt exciting to me, filled with the potential to find the path out of the nightmare. Now it feels like a prison. Wish I had known about your reading at Longfellow Books the other night. It would have been great to see you!!
Brilliant essays to keep the lonely company, to spark hope in those losing hope in humanity, to name the unnamable elephants in the room of society, to touch hearts broken by what we see, to light the darkness in which we dare not look. Thank you for your courage and genius.
Thank-you for this series of thoughtful and insightful essays, Baron. Many of your reflections in this last post are closely aligned with the philosophers of "Deep Ecology", among them Arne Naess, George Sessions, and the poet Gary Snyder. May "mankind" heed the call to care deeply for our Mother, for our home, "Turtle Island."
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Baron, Thank you so much for this essay. It makes me feel less alone. I have been walking around the house all morning feeling terribly bereft of any belief in human "goodness." It seems the more the earth is threatened by our actions, the more rapacious and cruel we become. The only thing I trust is the oak leaf blown onto the grass. Not the grass, mown and fed for the benefit of...what...my reflection as a good member of society? Not myself, human-centered creature so angry at "them" I lose all compassion in my own dark soul. This nightmare once felt exciting to me, filled with the potential to find the path out of the nightmare. Now it feels like a prison. Wish I had known about your reading at Longfellow Books the other night. It would have been great to see you!!
Brilliant essays to keep the lonely company, to spark hope in those losing hope in humanity, to name the unnamable elephants in the room of society, to touch hearts broken by what we see, to light the darkness in which we dare not look. Thank you for your courage and genius.
Thank-you for this series of thoughtful and insightful essays, Baron. Many of your reflections in this last post are closely aligned with the philosophers of "Deep Ecology", among them Arne Naess, George Sessions, and the poet Gary Snyder. May "mankind" heed the call to care deeply for our Mother, for our home, "Turtle Island."