Disrupters

In Freya's mailbox today . . .

The status quo will not disrupt itself.

Today is Bloomsday. On this day in 1904, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went on their first date.

The prolific poet, novelist Joyce Carol Oates was born on this day in 1938 Lockport, New York.

It’s also the birthday of Geronimo , the leader of the Chiricahua band of the Apache people. He was born in 1829 near present-day Clifton, in southeastern Arizona.

If the climate crisis as taught us anything, it is that we are responsible for it – all of it. We are the ones who insisted on fossile fuels for all our transportation including oversized pickup trucks we don't need; plastic everything in the name of “easier;” industrial farms joining in the plastic poisoning of rivers and the seas to save a $ to spend on rare earth materials for our big screens. We've chopped down and burned the lungs of the earth and wonder why its getting so hard to breathe in the middle of horrific fires. We could join nature by attending to the obvious. We continue to insist that nature needs to be controlled, ignoring the reality that it is nature that is in control. It's not that we don't know what to do. It's that we aren't doing it.

The degradation of the environment as a sacrilegious desecration. We need more “love insurrectionaries.” – Rob Brezsney

That Other

Yes — you remember

some things. And

some things did

happen. Except not

that way.

And anyway, not

to you.

– Joyce Carol Oates, Poetry (July/August 2020)