#alwayscominghome

[thejenglobook]

I already miss my home (not that I’m claiming an NT property as home!). I mean in a general sense. I know who I am here, in this picture. Returning to China feels like stepping back into an abyss of identity. #fujifilm #nationaltrust #selfie #identity #alwayscominghome #ursulaleguin (at Wotton-under-Edge) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ZQZuYhmg1/?igshid=z21mt8lmj7t7

[multispeciesisms]

Take care, you Adobe people, you Obsidian people, and come over onto the wild side, don’t stay all the time on the farming side; it’s dangerous to live there. Come among the unsown grasses bearing richly, the oaks heavy with acorns, the sweet roots in unplowed earth. Come among the deer on the hill, the fish in the river, the quail in the meadows. You can take them, you can eat them, like you they are food. They are with you, not for you. Who are their owners? This is the puma’s range, this hill is the vixen’s, this is the owl’s tree, this isn the mouse’s run, this is the  minnow’s pool: it is all one place. Come take your place. No fences here, but sanctions. No war here but dying; there is dying here. Come hunt, it is yourself you hunt. Come gather yourself from the grass, the branch, the earth. Walk here, sleep well, on the ground that is not yours, but is yourself.

Second half of a poem in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home (pp. 76-77). An Exhortation from the Second and Third Houses of the Earth.

[gufettogrigio]

Most animals stayed in the wilderness with Coyote. Not the ants, though. They wanted to make war with the humans, and they did. They are still at it.

“Always Coming Home” U.K. LeGuin