Lately, not a day goes by without plenty of stories being published in the media regarding climate disruption and environmental destruction. In light of these, the actions of some of the world's richest and 'most successful' people must be considered obscene.
When we think of the facts of life, the first thing that comes to mind is sex. So lets get that out of the way.
[I'm going to slide this big, wonderful idea, throbbing and ready to burst with ripe concepts, all the way into your eager, quivering intellect. And then I'll give you more and more until you're satisfied.
Are you ready?]
Everything has two sides.
The news keeps getting worse day by day. The world is heating up and burning up. Species are vanishing from the planet at an alarming rate. Hatred, fear and anger are pandemic. So are feelings of hopelessness and despair.
Yet there is hope, probably our only hope, and it lies in something so fundamental that we hardly ever think about it. But maybe we should.
T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I., if you didn't know, stands for 'the end of the world as we know it'. That's a bit extreme for our taste, but we're all in favor of T.E.O.C.A.W.C.K.I. - the end of "civilization" as we currently know it. Better yet, T.E.O.C.A.W.C.K.I.I.A.G.W. - the end of civilization as we currently know it, in a good way. ('Teocawckiiagw' looks at first glance as though it might be an Anishinaabemowin word, which seems somehow fittingly symbolic.)
Many aspects of Halloween as we know it were likely borrowed from ancient pagan beliefs and rites, but the name itself has its roots in early Christianity. It is a contraction of 'All Hallows Evening' - the evening before All Hallows Day, or, All Saints Day.
We are all two-spirited.
At any given moment we are both feminine and masculine in degrees, varying mostly according to how our cultures define masculinity and femininity, as well as what society expects from us, what the moment requires, and what we have learned, rightly or wrongly.
Of course, hormones and chromosomes have a major influence on all that. So do our physical genders. With few exceptions we are born definitely as either male or female. Got an innie? You're a female. Got an outtie? You're a dude, man.
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