is what i’m trying to say
sitting in the cafe
with the trees and the people
and the sky and the morning and everything
and the micro-mycelium underground
connecting it all
and the trees and the people
and the sky and the clouds
we’re all connected
and the smallest organism of all
is tying it all together
is what i’m trying to say
something like that
and the cars in the street
running around free exhausting poison
gas into the air we breathe
and the trees trying to bio-mediate
everything
that’s what i see
and that’s what i want to write about
without saying too much
open my mind to the several layers
of reality open my heart to the
feeling of being
alive
time and a planet and stuff
walking around in a body
oh boy
i could get technical about
it like malcolm shandrake
merlin milkshake
merlin sheldrake there it is
writing about it in his book
which i’m reading right now ‘Entangled Life’
but i’d rather just rave on
free associate
feel the muse
the muse and be amused
ha !!
listen to the song of life
everything is singing
the bonk of the paddleballers
i mean the pickleballers
the squeals of the babies
the murmur of human conversation
slightly too distant to be distinct
the words coming into my mind
and being transcribed with
my pilot G-2 (10) blue ink pen
onto my caliber composition
notebook with parallel lines
it’s just everything is everywhere
i’ve said this before
but it’s still true
it’s something to write about
jump up and down and dance about
explore the dirt under the tree about
like the two year old nearby
he wrenches off his right shoe
runs his toes thru the gravel
puts the strap in his mouth
chews on it
he’s an experiencing machine
all circuits on looking around
smacking the rock with his
hand to see if it’s solid
yep
taking off on a one shoe
expedition - he gets about 20
feet before he turns around
peeps squeals runs back to
his tree and his comfortable mom
waiting there with one shoe
i mean it’s all happening
but we miss it cause we’re
so encapsulated in our ego
and our mental concepts and our
metal cars and out houses of commerce
get up on your bike
and ride out
that’s what i do
go to the cafe and hang out
talk to the dogs
let them smell you if they
don’t bite
they’re an experiencing machine too
over stimulated and eager to go
this lady is holding on to
the reins like a wild horse
bucking and pulling
eager spontaneous
turned on
like a two year old
the two year olds and the dogs
they have a compact
separate and complete
i can only imagine
what they feel
This diatribe was delivered to you knowing that the invisible world of fungal spores and microbial organisms is really the basis of all that we see and are. The entire biosphere on planet earth is built by these tiny entities, like grains of sand on the beach. We don’t see them so we don’t recognize them, we don’t recognize them so we don’t think about them, we don’t think about them so we don’t appreciate them.
Plants could not exist without the fungal networks interacting with them in the soil. Hair like little threads running everywhere. These were the first roots when the first plants migrated out of the oceans and onto the land.
Microbes have colonized our bodies and live symbiotically with our own cells. Trillions of them.
Viruses ‘infect’ bacteria but instead of harming them they help rearrange its DNA and make them more adaptable.
Trees communicate with each other and with the sky above by releasing volatile chemicals that waft thru the air and cause rain drops to form or inform other trees of danger to come.
The breeze comes and makes the branches sway and the leaves dance - this helps the tree grow stronger and the gas exchange (photosynthesis) happen more easily.
Rotting logs feed mushrooms.
Rotting animals feed vultures and worms.
Cow dung feeds the dung beetle.
These are just a few examples off the top of my head - a complete list would go on and on forever almost, incalculable. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is how we’ve inscribed it in our moral code. The foundation of evolution from amoebas to elephants, we now know, is not survival of the fittest but a cute little trick called endosymbiosis - larger cells incorporating smaller cells into themselves and utilizing their special features instead of devouring them. Capitalism has skewed our understanding of how life works. That’s a great misfortune. The ancient people understood the principle of reciprocity because they lived in communion with nature not in domination of it; they witnessed it every day. Our wealth has made us poor. We have forgotten the most important things and remembered all the trivia. We know how to kill but we have forgotten how to live. We drive our cars around and go places really fast but never quite arrive. We smash the butterflies and the small unfortunate animals without even slowing down. We’ve lost our way with explanations and directives and elections and directions.
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