volcanic symbiosis.
when I see or read about people living this way — adapting their lives around their natural environment — because
because i live on the equator, on an island that is seasonless and where the days are the same length, i have a rather static relationship with the natural world.
i never develop a sense of its changes and its movements, its cycles and patterns.
it’s there, i enter it from time to time — am awed, or revel in it, or endure it — and am extracted from it after a given time. W
when I lived in the US I was beginning to have a sense of the movement — not pattern, because pattern requires more consciousness, repeated recognition of structure, movemnet, trasition, but always not quite aware, always delayed, always felt a few steps behind — trying to catch up with the outside world.so that by the time it took me to change my routine to function on a shortened day the day had shrunk even more, after enough borrowed sweaters I -
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