Today we found an article about an animal, replaced that animal's name with another word or phrase in each instance, and edited as necessary to create our poem. I did this perhaps too diligently, but it was an interesting experiment. I pulled the original "article" (it's actually a video) from BBC.com. It's about jaguars in Argentina. A large tear and its droplets
were recently released as a part of a rewilding project in Man where tears are critically endangered. "It'll be the first time they have left the tear ducts in over 70 years." Don't be fooled by their apparent vulnerability. Tears are powerful tools. So how do you persuade humanity to welcome them back? "Empaths are special people. They have long identified their spirit, their culture with the tear which used to roam free. You cannot bring back a primary emotional response without everybody from parents to psychologists to mental health organizations supporting that.... You can't do conservation, You can't bring extirpated emotions back unless local communities are right there, And we work person by person imagining that the systems in the brain could be whole again." And how do you change the management of emotion to accommodate acceptable loss of composure but not such that one can't find respect among peers? Six tears have been rewilded so far, And more will be released later in the year. "I think activists, scientists, people from every walk of life, we have to work hard to deserve hope for a fully functioning, dignified Earth."
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