After the Fires and the Floods

A page of Gustav Dore’s illustrations for “Don Quixote”

Every culture has a notion of justice. The coincidence of Donald Trump's inauguration and Martin Luther King's Day, days after devastating fires in LA might be a good time to consider juatice in what it means to choose to listen to inconvenient truths or enforce silence on witnesses in the name of the status quo. Justice is an evolutionary process that requires both witnessing and listening. Fires and floods are bearing witness to us all.

The status quo across much of the world right now, is one of continuous extraction to the point of collapse. Power seems uninterested in listening to warnings of consequences. Listening to fire and flood requires profound changes to the status quo.