participate

It's a recent thing
the choice to participate in
one's own life

it used to just be 'the way'

...

now,
we have false choices.

we can eat at a resteraunt where somebody we never meet cooks vegetables and meat we've never known, served to us by somebody we've just met all powered with energy from a damned river we've never heard of with spices from places we've never been.
and it's normal.

to participate is to engage with the seeds that remember how to grow when we plant them in earth that becomes our body as we realize it is the infinite mystery of soil and sun that sustains our life.
how humbling.

we can drive thousands of kilometres in vehicles hewn from seams of minerals held by the earth, tooled precisely to perform the exact function of 3000 rpm's that propel the vehicle through the explosion of a fuel made from the decay of an ancient past.

life is amazing!
though

we are external to the majority of our lives.
to become sensitive to life
is the path by which we become
better able to know ourselves

it also happens to be the way
that we can collectively govern
these greedy brains with
our hearts that are able to
clearly see
that we are home in this world
and we need to love her as
we need to love ourselves.