Begin by centering yourself in the middle of the mirror
\nKeep your feet shoulder width apart
\nStand tall with your shoulders back
\nHead straight
\nNow slowly raise your arms out beside you until they are parallel to the ground
\nStop
\nTake a moment to forget about those around you <\/p>\n
Look at yourself <\/p>\n
Notice the power in your stance,
\nThe weight of your arms
\nNotice the space you take up
\nHow do you situate yourself within the world?<\/p>\n
Look at yourself <\/p>\n
Arms stretched out wide, open, awaiting an embrace
\nLook at your overbearing, all-consuming presence
\nLook at yourself because there is nothing else to look at
\nAre you uncomfortable? <\/p>\n
In the past 100 years over 500 species have gone extinct
\nBaiji dolphin
\nPinta tortoise
\nGolden toad
\nCaspian tiger
\nPyrenean ibex
\nAccelerating with reckless abandon
\nWe are the drivers of mass extinction<\/p>\n
Do you feel an ache in your heart?
\nWhen did you stop giving death the same reverence as life?
\nWhen did you forget how to grieve?
\nDid you ever learn to sit with your sorrow?
\nTell me, when did we lose consciousness of our own frailty?<\/p>\n
Wait and watch as everyone lines up to await their turn on the cross
\nFor we will all pay for these sins of humanity <\/p>\n
This is what happens when we disentangle our identities from our relationship to others
\nWhen we disentangle the notion of self and community
\nWhat happened to kinship, to our deeply adding connections?<\/p>\n
We are in the midst of an emotional collapse <\/p>\n
We are in the midst of an emotional collapse and are you still looking at yourself?
\nDon\u2019t break that eye contact <\/p>\n
This is the greatest loneliness
\nWelcome to The Anthropocene: A New Era of Solitude <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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