plrvrs:mybase:trees

talking about the pluriverse

A screenshot from pdf of Designs for the Pluriverse Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar, et al

thinking about what my base is in my universe

earliest memories I found trees to be important to me, I would happily just stare at trees for long amounts of time and not question why they were there, sitting by the trees was good enough for me. I remember realizing how socially I was being pulled away from trees and one day when I had a moment to look at trees again I started to cry.

I also remember mimicking trees while wading in the spring at Ponce De Leon and I was bend my knees slowly into the water, submerging my chin and barely touching my nose to the water I looked down through the crystal clear water and acted as a tree. I watched as fish, little minnows, 20 or more start to surround my legs and I imagined they thought i was a strange tree, a new one, and they were investigating it. When I would move they would scattered and run away until I became completely still again, I thought they had short term memory loss.

i don’t know if trees are intrinsic to my universe (which of course they are, but is it a definition of mine, or is there no definition to be sought) but I could imagine they might be, I could imagine almost anything, which makes me question these sort of personal investigations.

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thinking about things that people have probably already thought about

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again feeling like that piece of grass,

that grass that grows on the dunes and keeps them from moving

that keeps an ecosystem sustaining

yes I’m just a piece of grass but I help

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i don’t know what fearless means really or if it might be mistaken for ignorance, I feel like most of my actions come from that more the latter and if I do realize the potential consequences it never really feels that close to me. Again, there are times where I have felt it viscerally the consequence and I actually ran as far away as possible