Each day I go from the macro to the micro...
from trying to change the future of life and humanity,
to changing lanes in a crowded freeway among a million other drivers scurrying here and there...
from reaching for the stars
to reaching for the bananas in the vegetable section...
but then, isn't that what it is about...
There is something divine in us, something of a Godseed...that allows us to live the
lives of ants and apes and yet reach for the stars.
To ignore this is to ignore destiny.
And it is Our destiny, unique among living things on this world,
to be able to create a new destiny, to choose among futures,
to be able to kill and to create,
to turn away from possibility or step boldly into it and thus change the destiny of all the life around us...
an ant is born ant, will live and dies as an ant
doing exactly the things ants have done
since ants became...ants...
an ape is born an ape, into a culture and life that is of being an ape,
and will do what apes have done
since apes became...apes...
But we, we are born each day into a newly created world, where what we do is changing sometimes in the moment.
Our lives have commonalities with the lives of the first humans,
but we swim under the seas like fish,
we fly in the skies like birds,
and step beyond them all to rise above and beyond this world to where there is no life
so that new life might arise there.
It is maddening and yet perfection...and probably the point of it all...
