I am beginning to understand

For a while at least, I think this will become my new mantra.

Climate destabilization. A solar-based life system. Perfect gratitude to the ultimate life-giver, the sun, creator of winds, granter of warmth, gravitationally generous.

Five pounds of trash per person per day. Seventy times this from industry. Conversion to biodegradation. Endless reuse. Ingenuity. I can choose. I can change (any and everything around me).

A food system in crisis. Biodynamics & grass farming. How seeds sewn and sung stir echoes.

A world in which open space shrinks daily. I can learn to live near those of unknown tendency and perspective. I will thrive and lay aside preference. I will dream in tandem. I will elevate the personal to the universal.

Our vast responsibility. My ability to grow evermore responsible. Everyday I learn to better live my proof.

The expanses of my brain. A lifestyle symbiotically attuned to muscle power. The fusion of feet and brain. Neurons in my intestines & heart. Through understanding, brain and body unify.

Internal energy systems. I work towards change to activate my surroundings. I learn to maintain my balance, to superimpose the serene over a wired world. I can master the middle space.

My infinite adaptability.

Running through it all: the extraordinary super-conscious union with loved ones. I am able to always expand this number. Someday, loved "manys" will prove more common.

The world of knowledge spreads before me, vast, previously impenetrable. Speckles of clarity begin to glow. Tentatively, I commit to a rare, new knowing: what is truly important.

I can't help repeating it: I can choose (when to act, how hard and far to push, reasons for committing, whom to ignite, how to articulate).

When will I?

~Everyone

(ghost-writer/sub-speaker: ~Ryan)