posted September 17, 2006 05:59 PM         

But, love those trees as I do, today I found myself wondering if we weren't going about this all wrong. This fighting the tide of greed and ignorance thing. Cursing the industrial complex as it leads us down the road to consequence. Barbed wire and consequences...they'll teach you a thing or two.

So enough of the protests and the guerilla style interventions. Enough of the recycling, reforesting and re-educating. Let's just drop it already.

What we need is a planet with only a few acres of cultivable land. We need a dirt parking lot as far as the eye can see (forgive me my botanic brethren and sistren.) We need an all but dead planet. We need to live without what's important for a little while...to refocus on what's important. We need to live without fresh air and greenery to miss it enough to hold it dear again.

Our familiarity has bred contempt and nature has become undervalued by society. So be it.

Apparently reason has left us..so let's drive Mother Nature into full on hibernation. Let's bring on the retaliatory lashback of our own short-sightedness.

We need to fall to learn. So please, let's get this thing over with. It's time to stop prolonging the inevitable.

What say? Styrofoam burning party anyone?

Love,

posted September 17, 2006 11:16 PM         

I hear what you're saying though.
It's more difficult to witness a slow death.

Beyond the weeds
swaying in the moonlight
are many many more
expansing vast fields of growth --
their subtle beauty
ignoringly hacked away
by heartless eyes.