The world, even my own little corner of it, has been changing faster than I've bee able to adjust or adapt.
- adjust: to bring to a more satisfactory state
- adapt: to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification
“For those who stake their identity on the role of omniscient conqueror, the uncertainty exposed by systems thinking is hard to take. If you can’t understand, predict, and control, what is there to do?
If you are finding it difficult to impossible to understand a world overwhelmed by pandemics, biodiversity loss, climate weirding, national and international "leadership" responding to the listed crises with little more than platitudes and rearranging deck chairs, please go read Dancing. I'm convinced that the answers to our crises are laid out there, beginning with the proverbial last being first:
14. HOLD FAST TO THE GOAL OF GOODNESS.
Image Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
Beneath heaven's vault
remember always walking
through halls of cloud
down aisles of sunlight
or through high hedges
of the green rain
walk in the world
highheeled with swirl of cape
hand at the swordhilt
of your pride
Keep a tall throat
Remain aghast at life
Enter each day
as upon a stage
lighted and waiting
for your step
Crave upward as flame
have keenness in the nostril
Give your eyes
to agony or rapture
Train your hands
as birds to be
brooding or nimble
Move your body
as the horses
sweeping on slender hooves
over crag and prairie
with fleeing manes
and aloofness of their limbs
Take earth for your own large room
and the floor of the earth
carpeted with sunlight
and hung round with silver wind
for your dancing place
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