I appreciate your response. I agree - we’re part of natural and planetary systems that we barely understand - if at all, and which many refuse to acknowledge we are indeed part of. So here we are in 2024, facing enormous challenges and threats of our own making.
Thanks again for stimulating my contemplation on Nature and humans. Your depictions of Nature as a force, in your fiction and non-fiction, are really captivating to this reader … and not a little scary!
Hi Karen- Thanks so much for sharing this story and also for the wonderful workshop on Monday afternoon. It had been a long time since I’d just dedicated myself to writing. What a joy!
Your reference to nature as a predator has me pondering the definition and implications. I think of a predator as having intent especially when it comes to prey. In this case, nature would have intent to… harm us or perhaps like a cat to play with us a while before… yikes!Which gets into a very intriguing animistic/philosophical line of thought!
Anyway, not sure where these thoughts will take me but for now I’m going outside into a warm spring afternoon to see if my cataraft tubes still hold air. Here’s hoping mother nature’s intent is benevolent this weekend ; )
Hi Laura, I don't think of a predator as necessarily malevolent, only as predating in order to survive. It's true I was playing fast and loose with the idea of an apex predator if only to make the point that when natural forces decide to act up or out, there's not much we can do about it. For far too long, humans have thought they were outside or above Nature. And that thinking has caused a climate catastrophe.
“I don’t have a super sized presence on the planet.” That landed. ♥️
I appreciate your response. I agree - we’re part of natural and planetary systems that we barely understand - if at all, and which many refuse to acknowledge we are indeed part of. So here we are in 2024, facing enormous challenges and threats of our own making.
Thanks again for stimulating my contemplation on Nature and humans. Your depictions of Nature as a force, in your fiction and non-fiction, are really captivating to this reader … and not a little scary!
Hi Karen- Thanks so much for sharing this story and also for the wonderful workshop on Monday afternoon. It had been a long time since I’d just dedicated myself to writing. What a joy!
Your reference to nature as a predator has me pondering the definition and implications. I think of a predator as having intent especially when it comes to prey. In this case, nature would have intent to… harm us or perhaps like a cat to play with us a while before… yikes!Which gets into a very intriguing animistic/philosophical line of thought!
Anyway, not sure where these thoughts will take me but for now I’m going outside into a warm spring afternoon to see if my cataraft tubes still hold air. Here’s hoping mother nature’s intent is benevolent this weekend ; )
Hi Laura, I don't think of a predator as necessarily malevolent, only as predating in order to survive. It's true I was playing fast and loose with the idea of an apex predator if only to make the point that when natural forces decide to act up or out, there's not much we can do about it. For far too long, humans have thought they were outside or above Nature. And that thinking has caused a climate catastrophe.