As the year of 2009 progresses we seem to picking up momentum. All around the world massive shifts and radical realignments are taking place. To my souls eye we humans seem so fragile, frantic and somehow fantastic. Curious little critters with such completely complicated minds that each person you meet is an entire universe unto themselves. Collectively our symbiotic little epic of existence is a brilliantly orchestrated tribute to our own weirdness. As I was rooting through a lot today for firewood I commented to my accomplice that humans make an inordinate amount of shit to keep us company. Than I realized that the entire town in which I live is nothing but an elaborate collection of human detritus upon which we live, and then die to be moved into the part of the town filled with corpses. I realized then that I can't imagine a world in which only nature was there to live with, no crazy mindscapes and cities, just the endless beauty of life. Oh, to only know for a minute what it would be like to live a life without all the 10,000 complexities and stupidities of our modern mindset. I think of how happy I am, and how fearless and ruthless I have to be in order to accomplish that. The natives said that if a man grows apart from nature his heart grows cold. I can see no better explanation for such a savage and cruel culture as the one we have manifested in this wild world I love so dear.
