Tag: No Shortcuts to Now
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Waypoint 4.2—The Wombfish
Doris is a sea-goddess, a second-generation Titan who lived long before Zeus established his Olympian hierarchy. She’s no queen, but rather a natural node within a mythic network. She’s but a single, dew-bright strand within an interconnected web of life. She’s also the daughter of Oceanus, the world-circling river, and of Tethys, the fertile sea.…
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Waypoint 4.1—Of Roots, Rhizomes, and Fish with Feet: The Lurid Bait of Egotism
The purple mountain heather is a symbolic affront to the arrogance, the tyranny, the demagoguery that fancies itself the axis of the world. Had great Ozymandias been a botanist—had he studied the rhizome and grasped its implications—he would have been moved to feeble tears. Or else he’d have ordered every last one ripped from the…
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Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media
from Chapter 3, The Blasted Heath “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Anonymous, often misattributed to Plato “I don’t need scientific proof — because the people promoting global warming are frauds.” — Rush Limbaugh In 1778, far from home, shivering and doubtful of their…
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Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View
From Chapter 2, “The Soul’s Ascent” “Expectations are the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today.” — Seneca The fresh fall air of mid-September — for fall does begin early at this elevation, now more than 9,000 feet above the Central Valley floor — was crisp, cool, and it grew slightly…
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