{"id":43626,"date":"2019-02-08T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43626"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:45:35","slug":"silver-linings-in-the-very-dark-cloud-of-climate-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43626","title":{"rendered":"Silver Linings in the Very Dark Cloud of Climate Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2019\/02\/07\/guest-post-living-like-it-matters\/#more-1945\">SILVER LININGS IN THE VERY DARK CLOUD OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We actually do not have all the time in the world, so I am going to be bold.&nbsp;&nbsp;What you do after you finish reading this is your business and ultimately, that is exactly as it should be. We may all be facets of a larger Oneness, tiny sparks of the Divine dwelling in human form, but for the moment\u2014allowing the potential truth of a larger connection\u2013we are very clearly individuals, each with our own experience and outlook. We have our own ways of coping and to some extent, each of us charts a unique course through this life. We are often granted some choice about how we live and how we die, though most of us vastly prefer to focus on the former.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even there, we tend to let life happen, getting pulled from one urgency to another amusement without full consciousness of how we spend the time. \u201cWhere did the time go?\u201d is a plaintive query, often-expressed. \u201cTime flies!\u201d When you are having fun, when you are busy, when you aren\u2019t fully present.&nbsp;&nbsp;Life happens&nbsp;<em>to us&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>more often than most of us would like to admit.&nbsp;&nbsp;But still, we can always meet it\u2013our life\u2014where we find it today and choose differently how we experience the flow of time, how we interact with the circumstances we have been given and crafted for ourselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such is the beauty of being alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for dying\u2014it is arguably the biggest taboo in first world cultures.\u00a0\u00a0Whereas nearly every shamanic tradition teaches students the imperative of carrying death close by at all times, we\u2019re not so comfortable dealing with it in the West, and thus we lose out on a lot of life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILVER LININGS IN THE VERY DARK CLOUD OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE We actually do not have all the time in the world, so I am going to be bold.&nbsp;&nbsp;What you do after you finish reading this is your business and ultimately, that is exactly as it should be. We may all be facets of a larger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[16692,22217,9248,15981],"class_list":["post-43626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-animasoul","tag-climate-catastrophe","tag-death","tag-elizabeth-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43627,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43626\/revisions\/43627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}