there is an Urge, both individually and collectively to "normalize"...that's the word being used...
normalize
and to me this means try to place a Filter on How Things Now Are that softens it, that is full of the wish that it will all somehow come out ok, enough, so that nothing really is drastically changed from what we are used to. And if this turns out to be true then it will be a time of Great Celebration for me. But if i am honest, i don't expect that.
So i am just looking at ways that might work to stay in place as it all unfolds. To keep some kind of personal equilibrium and in time, come up with a Plan for how to live. Nothing really will change probably, i think, in my own space here where i live. We are rural and we are Small. Things will go on as usual, probably. I doubt that anyone is going to come for all the undocumented here, of which there are many. I'm thinking, probably, we are Under the Radar. I am thinking that the students, Graduate students at the college in town, New Mexico Mining and Tech that are from "those" countries will continue here as they have. Probably. That no one will be inclined to be unkind to them. Probably.
So if Probably holds, i am going to go here for the Next While
it came today. Published this year, but of course, before What Happened, Happened. I had mentioned him the other day...that book , the Culture of Make Believe that describes exactly what is happening now. He is not easy reading. He is Hard Reading. And there are the others he wrote...Endgame I and II, Language Older Than Words, Deep Green Resistance, and As The World Burns. "holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics" "considered by many to be the philosopher poet of the environmental movement" so i am going INTO this book for now. My love for Humanity is great, but my love for the Planet is First. No Planet, No Humanity. Murder Planet, live consequence.
so i LOVE you all but stuff is not "normalizing" here. Stuff is torn and bleeding and so so stunned. and tho stuff will just go, because there is Sun Rise and Sun Set and Goats and Dog and Cat and lizards hunkering down for the Cold Time and Birds and Toads and all manner of Insects and Micro Organisms, Plant People, Wind, Sky, earth and earth and Earth...., there's no room in my mind and heart for normalizing, but time to take a stand. Whatever that might come to be.
