Mother Earth . . .

. . . slipped a note into the Friday mailbox. It said “Free lunches have been cancelled.”

Truth is simple. It's our application of it that is often difficult. Usually because we just don't want to see it, hear it, nor apply it.

. . . think of ourselves as a part of creation rather than apart from it. What if the land is a being in its own right? That concept is not as foreign as you might think. And what if the land and all that grows from it and on it and in it are sentient beings in their own right? . . . land itself and the conditions of that land, like altitude and climate, impact our genome just as our human ancestors do. We are born on it, die on it; we come from it and return to it. The land and the waters, oceans and rivers, are part of us, relatives and ancestors in a very real way. – Dr. Keolu Fox, a Kānaka Maoli anthropologist and genomic researcher.

Two young fish are swimming along when they come across an older fish. The old fish nods to them—the way fish nod to one another—and says, “Mornin’, ya'll. How’s the water today?” The two young fish keep swimming for a bit until one looks at the other and says, “What the hell is water?”

. . . safeguarding the environment is intrinsically in contrast with any form of value production and distribution. We cannot enjoy new cars, clothes, roads, infrastructures if not by consuming natural resources and polluting the environment . . . it is time, overdue, to consider if “shareholders’ value” is still a good governing principle, if it ever has been . . .A transcendental purpose, undefinable, ambiguous and unclear, is a necessary source of reflection and something to be interrogated in order for us to act wisely in the face of the conditions we have created while ignoring Mother Earth's messages. Continuing to confuse means with ends is, as it has always been, a quintessential, increasingly disastrous, mistake. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – from Aeon.

Metaphor: holding the most truth in the least space.