The Larger Tribe

It isn't that we have too many humans, exactly, it is that we do not have enough humanity. We do not live with the understanding that this earth is a place for all who are born on it, all that lives on it and sits on it and exists on it. We do not endeavor to create a well-balance environment. It seems that we  endeavor to amass items for ourselves with the great fear that we will suffer and die if we do not, yet suffer and die we will anyway. I hope that there is a greater lesson. I hope that we are like little children in a beautiful playroom, left to our imaginations. I hope that our souls are without damage. I hope that there are beings more benevolent and wise that are allowing us to learn through play. Children are magical and brutal. Their innocence and selfishness are both charming and terrifying. We are not unlike them, even as adults.

Even the sacred indigenous groups that folks like myself love to learn from, even they are often highly territorial. They seem to have learned the necessity of respecting their environment, but they do not seem to recognize humans as their tribe. Our tribes are all small. All humans can trace their ancestry back and back and back and back... no one is more exclusive, no one is more entitled, no one is more sacred, no one owns the earth.