moment you've experienced - what have you got? I've been wading through a lot of work, and every time I drive over the Potomac River, I hear it calling to me, but I'm too busy. It's been months since my last kayaking trip, and it's making me kind of crazy to be missing out on all these gorgeous floods and seasons, but so it goes.
I'm an avid reader of DK, and as much as I appreciate the discussions, sometimes the whole political morass just wears me out. Which is why I write these diaries - it makes me focus on good things, on moments of beauty, and I really enjoy hearing about everyone else's as well. And just the act of writing these diaries forces me to remember and celebrate all the good things in my life.
This is the Apocalypse Edition, not because of 2012, or the recent bible-based idiocy, but because I want to share a new and liberating life perspective I've been coasting in. As an environmentalist, I'm relatively optimistic about an anthropogenic apocalypse that would reduce the human population to a more manageable number. Eg a superplague.
Of course this is a horrible thing to hope for, but there it is. I honestly think this is the most efficient way for humanity to return to a more natural balance with the earth. Although I don't quite have a plan for how to shut down all the nuke plants. And it's not like I'm doing anything to further this fantasy.
I don't much worry about planning for dying in such an apocalypse, but I do have concerns about whether I'm adequately planning for surviving it. I don't own any guns, and don't have much shooting experience. Nor have I set up any food/tool caches, or built up much of a survival inventory.
That used to bug me more, but awhile back I started thinking that maybe we're already living inside of the Apocalypse - living in a world where most of the decision-makers are misguided, corrupt, greed-addled, deluded, psychopathic and/or profoundly irresponsible freaks. It's changed my world.
Now everytime I get a coffee, I marvel that I can still get an expresso in the Apocalypse, that the roads are still driveable, that the internet's still working, that the lights are still on. I love it that I can still buy bagels, in the middle of a civilisation collapse.
I share this with you all on the chance that it may be helpful for some. But now for the moments of beauty. It's been a long time since I've written one of these diaries, and I have a bunch queued up. Here's a very incomplete list:
-a camping trip where the kids found a perfect shed snake skin.
-planting 49 native trees with those kids.
-having allies stand up for me when I was challenged by a very frustrating opponent.
-running across a field in a lightning storm and downpour with a beautiful girl.
-hiking desert canyons in Utah and finding traces of the Anasazi.
-climbing a maypole.
-hanging out with relatives in Austria and hearing stories about my family
-wandering Vienna with that same beautiful girl.
-being part of a green energy company.
-watching stars and storms and sunrises and sets.
-creating a garden in a low-income community in DC.
how about you, what was your last most beautiful moment? And what's your plan for the Apocalypse?