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-==== Deep in Admiration ====
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-Excerpts from //"Deep in Admiration"// by **Ursula K. Le Guin**
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-Changing our minds is going to be a big change. To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting  it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it. Skill in living, awareness of belonging to the world, delight in being part of the world, always tends to involve knowing our kinship as animals with animals. (...) One way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills, only as “natural resources” is to class them as fellow beings—kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look  where objectifying it has gotten us. To subjectify is not necessarily to co-opt, colonize, exploit. Rather, it may involve a great reach outward of the mind and imagination.
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-The MARROW
-There was a word inside a stone.\\
-I tried to pry it clear, \\
-mallet and chisel, pick and gad,\\
-until the stone was dropping blood,\\
-but still I could not hear\\
-the word the stone had said.\\
-I threw it down beside the road\\
-among a thousand stones\\
-and as I turned away it cried\\
-the word aloud within my ear\\
-and the marrow of my bones\\
-heard, and replied.\\
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 ==== Terrafictions ====
-Excerpts from //"Terrafictions"// by **FoAM** (Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney)
+Excerpts from //[[https://medium.com/aperiodic-mesmerism/terrafictions-109274bf8336|"Terrafictions"]]// by **FoAM** (Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney)
 To care, to cure, to comfort. To be with. To help cope, regardless of the situation. “Being with” involves allowing yourself to be touched by the joys and sorrows of another. To be touched by external circumstances, or as the Dutch so eloquently say, to be “ontroerd”. Thrown off-course by the sheer rawness of the moment, by your own inability to make things better, by our fragility, impermanence and mortality.