The Bears are Coming Down from the Mountains
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We are coming out of 3+ days of seemingly immanent fire threat— a fire erupted just a handful of miles from the house Rose and I rent, visible from the porch and AQI was at 450. It’s a lot for a body. I might write more about it— because these moments, seemingly endless moments of crisis are so instructive, like I really do learn a lot, feel a lot, but for now I’m going to share something short I wrote a few weeks back in the wake of a very dear friend’s unexpected death.
Death brings so much to the surface, crisis too, and we collectively and individually are in so much of it rapid fire. I don’t always know how to hold how angry, how sad I am so I write.
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Sometimes I think that the devil is in the details— everything happening in rapid succession— this planet a kind of hell and we are only burning hotter and we are only getting angrier and even those assholes at the school board meetings demanding brilliance be removed from shelves know, they have to know we are on borrowed time and how outrageously sad, how absolutely enraging that so many humans, really just animals, are riding out the final days in their swastika emblazoned sweatshirts.
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