a moment to breathe

"Learning to relate to rivers, mountains, minerals, other people, AI—and ourselves—not as discrete identities vying for control, but as entangled assemblages nested within shared ecologies, may be one of the few ways we can begin to repattern the damage we’ve inherited." from Standing in the Fire Interim Report. https://burnoutfromhumans.net/report 

Learning to relate

to nature

not as an object

that we can enter

or exit

not as a 'place'

as gated gardens

but as entangled 

and nested

shared ecologies

can we

navigate healing

repair the damage of

relational rifts

wounds within

no bruises showing

can we shed bark

reveal new skin

let it shine

in moonlight

this is my new way

of relating

of feeling

of knowing the tree

this is both a wide-boundary inquiry

and a narrow single footprint

a single set of coordinates

a moment in time

a breathe

a note

a leaf

fallen