mindfulness

So we can never be totally alone.  A society is more like a wood wide web - we are connected to relatives, children, friends, work, bus-drivers, health care and so on. We are also connected to history and nowadays to countries all over the world. We are connected to melting ice in Arktis and to what's happening in the Amazonas.  That's why Robert Macfarlane compares our world with the fungus network underground. The wood wide web;  It is said the the trees can communicate with each other with the help of the mycelium. A big tree can  nourish a smaller one through the mycelium that can spread very long in the depth.  As we can nourish or or even threaten a fellow being on another continent through our web.  We can also try to change the story of historical events, or of coming ages - so time is also included in our internet- games. So beware of the sources that writers in the internet use.  My source here is mostly Macfarlane's book Underland. Please read it! We can never be

 Michael Shawe, an Australian producer and director has made a film called "Living in the time of dying". It is really powerful for the ones that really care for the future, who has time and energy enough to care. He interviews people who is caring but also sees the threat of a global tragedy that has already started.  So Shawe seems to come to the conclusion that what is best now is to do the things that really matters.  I guess that is, to be present, to listen and to care for the ones  that are near us, even animal and plants.  I'm not without hope that the situation can change and no one is knowing exactly what the future looks like.  Anyway here is the film:   So what can we do with the voices we have listened to in this film? Turn away? Stop to listen because its to scary? Or maybe just listen and not think much of it for some weeks.  Robert Macfarlane writes in his quite new book "Underland": We are presently living through the Anthropocene, an epoch of i