Variousness

"In a small room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot"
Czeslaw Milosz

Prayers answered, it rained and snowed all day and most of last night. If global warming means warmer drier winters and wetter springs I may be pretty well positioned here in western Montana. What the hell is a grayling? Another one of those endangered "indicator" species, with a remnant population in the upper Big Hole hanging on by a fin. They need more than prayers, like so many obscure linkages in our fracturing eco-systems they need a fundamental change in our consciousness. Sooner is better thajn later.

Rupture, not Rapture

"We may now be only in the initial period of an era of change as far reaching as the American Revolution. The developed industrial nations of the world cannot remain secure islands of prosperity in a seething sea of poverty. The storm is rising against the priveledged minority of the earth." "...there must be more than a statement to the larger society, there must be a force that interrupts its functionality at some key point"
Martin Luther King Jr.