Dancing with ghosts . . .

In Freya's mail box this morning, wet with rain mixed with snow . . .

All species are equal, but some are more equal than others. – George Orwell, Animal Farm ,Secker and Warburg,. London 1945.

There is clear evidence that there are “Keystone” species maintaining balance in ecosystems tiny and global. Humans are considered “Super Keystone” for the planetary ecosystem. How we replace intolerance with tolerance appears to be our #1 challenge. How we do that and eliminate greed is rather beyond me this morning. And, in case you didn't know, the other major Keystone for the planet is the Arctic.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rilke

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. – Gandhi

Like never before we need the haunting silence of the Ghost Dance.

There are no monsters. Only bad re-writes of forgotten stories. – Sophie Strand,