It’s midwinter and the hellebores are flowering, deep and sly, sensuous and underworldly, face to the earth and not out of modesty.

“In addressing the global question of how to continue to live together in our earthly habitat, it’s essential that we reflect on our condition not only as discrete units of biological matter, but also as beings collectively driven to push the boundaries of those units. We will then be in a position to ask ourselves, with genuine, open-minded curiosity, what this drive is about, and perhaps arrive at a clearer understanding of our greater collaborative project.”

— from an essay I’ve been working on.