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I find it sad, and wasteful, and hurtful
That \u201cman\u201d is separate from \u201cnature\u201d
That we build to \u201ckeep us safe\u201d from her
That we \u201cbattle\u201d climate change
That we throw things \u201caway\u201d,\u00a0
thinking that that place is anywhere other than here, 
where we are, when it is in truth on\/in\/of our home.

I find a revelation in reading
That this used to not be
This \u201cwe\u201d, and \u201cother\u201d,
Existence of apartness, not a part of:
Separate, mistrustful, and abusing.
We used to be nature, and work with the soil, and the wind, 
and the sun as we perceived it moving across our shared sky.

Making something \u201cother\u201d diminishes it
Makes it cheap, unworthy, unsophisticated
Makes it usable
Makes it a righteous thing to profit from it
Makes it okay to subjugate it, fight it, fear it, toss it, 
rape it, 
and confine it,
Even while we still see the sun moving, nurturing our home, 
we think that measuring its path makes it ours.

We even label cultures and sexes to lessen them.
The female and the indigenous are cycle-based, of nature,
(as are beasts, insects, plants, microbes...)
\u201csimple\u201d, uncultured, incapable,
Begging to be controlled, \u201cunsophisticated\u201d
We allow us<\/strong> to devalue them<\/strong>,
Control them, and profit from their work
With no guilt, no understanding of mutual interdependent needs 
and\u00a0gains that make us all imperative, contributing elements 
of our shared Nature of being.

Is it science that is at fault?\u00a0
Or man\u2019s hateful use of it?
Francis Bacon said \u201cscience should as it were torture 
nature\u2019s secrets out of her\u201d
When real scientific curiously can engage with Nature to 
teach us her wisdom.

Is it religion?
Giving us dominion over the earth?
So many say that we are in god\u2019s image and the world is 
for us to enjoy (aka \u201cuse up\u201d)
When religion also teaches us to love one another and to be 
stewards of each other and all creation.

I know we are moving through chaos and anger and apartness
To clarity of purpose and connection of systems.
We are here, now, in this present to

Change<\/b>

Change \u201cnature\u201d to Nature, revered and of us
Change \u201caway\u201d to a non-existence, achieving truth
Change \u201cunsophisticated\u201d to unfettered and limitless
Change \u201cuncultured\u201d to innate, earned wisdom, valuable for us all
Change \u201cbattle\u201d to a quest for understanding so we may work 
with systems and the current shifts in them.

Change - which is hard
Change - which is uncomfortable
Change - which did happen, and will happen again, 
and can happen without us or\u00a0
Better, for us, and with us all, human and more, with no \u201cother\u201d 
but we, 

as Nature.
<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
-Jodi Smits Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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