Beautifully articulated. I would make a clumsy sort of argument like this when I was a climate activist and someone would say "the Earth is dying!" and I would respond that the Earth is just responding to humanity the way our bodies respond to illness. But you say it much better.
I've been thinking lately that we really have a "crisis crisis". Our crisis is that we are viewing everything as a crisis, so the "crisis" is really the story we are telling about these "crises", which don't even properly deserve the name.
A beautiful article and it gives words to something I couldn't quite articulate before. It makes me think of a wash nearby that has so many fossils in it. No spectacular bones, mostly just twigs and plant debris, sometimes raindrops, but also footprints. A quarter of a billion years ago what they used to call mammal-like reptiles wandered around here. I think of them as some of our most distant ancestors and it's a profound connection. Crises and opportunities have come countless times before. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but when I'm out there, staring at those tracks moving off I feel those winds too.
Wonderfully insightful, thank you so much for this. I love to hear about the etymology of words, because, as you say, so much of that forgotten old meaning still lurks behind and informs our thinking. I will be thinking of the meanings of crisis and opportunity this week as I ponder my own mini crisis of sheep who are unwell because of intestinal worms and no longer responding adequately to my natural treatments - too many sheep (20) on too little land, what is my way home in this? We are growing our own food, getting milk from the sheep too, but there's so much ancient knowledge forgotten. Not just head knowledge, I can get that from books, but actual lived knowledge. Crisis and opportunity!
Wonderful Rhyd, thank you. Simple living, engagement with place, doing things yourself, feels so much better- I don't think modern people quite understand that. It's an enrichment, not a deprivation. The medicine tastes good.
Beautifully articulated. I would make a clumsy sort of argument like this when I was a climate activist and someone would say "the Earth is dying!" and I would respond that the Earth is just responding to humanity the way our bodies respond to illness. But you say it much better.
Thank you - this is potent. I feel those winds. I feel my own inner mutiny.
I've been thinking lately that we really have a "crisis crisis". Our crisis is that we are viewing everything as a crisis, so the "crisis" is really the story we are telling about these "crises", which don't even properly deserve the name.
Beautiful piece of writing. It's as though nature is speaking through your words, calling us home.
A beautiful article and it gives words to something I couldn't quite articulate before. It makes me think of a wash nearby that has so many fossils in it. No spectacular bones, mostly just twigs and plant debris, sometimes raindrops, but also footprints. A quarter of a billion years ago what they used to call mammal-like reptiles wandered around here. I think of them as some of our most distant ancestors and it's a profound connection. Crises and opportunities have come countless times before. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but when I'm out there, staring at those tracks moving off I feel those winds too.
Wonderfully insightful, thank you so much for this. I love to hear about the etymology of words, because, as you say, so much of that forgotten old meaning still lurks behind and informs our thinking. I will be thinking of the meanings of crisis and opportunity this week as I ponder my own mini crisis of sheep who are unwell because of intestinal worms and no longer responding adequately to my natural treatments - too many sheep (20) on too little land, what is my way home in this? We are growing our own food, getting milk from the sheep too, but there's so much ancient knowledge forgotten. Not just head knowledge, I can get that from books, but actual lived knowledge. Crisis and opportunity!
Wonderful Rhyd, thank you. Simple living, engagement with place, doing things yourself, feels so much better- I don't think modern people quite understand that. It's an enrichment, not a deprivation. The medicine tastes good.