This is a most powerful angle you took on the culmination of NOW & HERE. Thank you for this inspiration. It highlights today's standing in the 'flow-love-trust'. Wakeful opportunities to join the 'movement' into the unknown for another day on this planet.
The utter fluidity of the multiplicity of components, the conflience of geophysical and socio-oolitical currents, are among the most difficult factors of the climate crisis for journalists, politicians and, in fact, all of us to wrap our heads around. Multi-dimensional chess with not only players moving but the squares of the board morphing into various other geometries.
This piece reminds me of a piece, Yet It Does Move, from my book Mr America Drives His Car, the epigram of which is a famous quote from Galileo: Eppur si muove.
This is a most powerful angle you took on the culmination of NOW & HERE. Thank you for this inspiration. It highlights today's standing in the 'flow-love-trust'. Wakeful opportunities to join the 'movement' into the unknown for another day on this planet.
The utter fluidity of the multiplicity of components, the conflience of geophysical and socio-oolitical currents, are among the most difficult factors of the climate crisis for journalists, politicians and, in fact, all of us to wrap our heads around. Multi-dimensional chess with not only players moving but the squares of the board morphing into various other geometries.
This piece reminds me of a piece, Yet It Does Move, from my book Mr America Drives His Car, the epigram of which is a famous quote from Galileo: Eppur si muove.
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Yet It Does Move
Eppur si muove
-Galileo
The cranes are gone again, gone in the night
with no one noticing until the silence
this morning and new warmth before the sun
reminding us that the earth we stand on clinging
by the soles of our feet to keep from falling
into the air and sky where they have gone
is not flat and is in fact turning
around itself around its dying star
revolution after revolution
clockwise and counter at the same time
the poles tilting on their axis both toward
and away from the sun shifting position
so magnetic north and south equator
Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn are nothing
fixed but imaginary points and lines
drawn on maps of bodies of land and water
themselves afloat on a dense fluid mass
we populate at our peril with fantasies
of changeless being essences and meaning
by which we mean something that isn’t just a thing
that isn’t becoming doesn’t exist but is
a feeling a wish a dream a presence a faith
that men may believe in and die and kill for
scienza religione amore wheels
within wheels the music of the spheres
while we try to keep our own wheel turning,
chop wood, haul water, appreciate the spring
aromas and colors, the leaves and blossoms working
their way from bulb and stem and branch, the songs
of the smaller birds still here and those returned.
The most beautifully, powerfully written truth I have ever read.
If I were a musician, I would be writing a symphony for it.
There's something about this that feels so very Zen - and in that there is peace.