Some years ago I wrote a poem that a friend of ours, Krista Detor, was subsequently kind enough to include in her book, Flat Earth Diary Notes from the Bridge. It’s the closing poem in that volume (p 217) and the title is A Way. It plays with the alternate word aweigh, as in anchors. At the time I wrote it, I was only vaguely aware of an undertone of the earth as a closed system, but now, reading it more than a decade later, I can find it, I think. It’s as nebulous as a nebula.
I was delighted today to see that the idea that there really isn’t anywhere that’s actually “away” has occurred to others. Humans and Nature, an organization that published a different poem of mine a few years ago, is now exploring It’s Time to Practice “No-Away” Living. I’m biased but I believe you would find it exceptionally up-lifting to follow the “No Away” link and read what’s there. To tempt you, here’s a key paragraph as a sample:
Supremacy culture is made up of ideologies that elevate one group over another—humans over “nature,” rich over poor, white people over people of color, for example. These ideologies are entangled with institutional policies and actions that extract resources, labor, freedom, dignity, and so much more from the arbitrary out-group(s)—those who do not “belong,” those who must be “managed”—to fortify the position of the arbitrary in-group—those who “belong,” those who “deserve power.”
If you’re interested in additional resources along the lines of the preceding, take a look at Weaving Earth. I’ll be exploring more of their resources, and those of Humans and Nature, in the near future. They offer what to me reads like a much more optimistic future, and way to get there, than anything else I’m seeing in the socio-politico publications these days. There’s an old saying among planners, “More of the same never solved a problem.” As a recovering planner, I’ve learned that the hard way years ago.
ever-changing prairie grasses
Photo by J. Harrington |
Now, to save you another link to click, here’s the poem of mine the Humans and Nature published. With a little poetic license, it can be made to fit today’s theme(s).
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