On Monday my sleeping cycle was disrupted by two appointments one of which I needed to be asleep during to make my day and night the right length. It did not matter which one--they were at opposite ends of the day but unfortunately I had to be awake for both of them. I have not gotten my circadian rhythm back on track yet although it is looking
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I was asking my friend who has the two very young children (one is less than a year old) how she dealt with the knowledge that the world seems to be lurching towards so many precipices at once and she said you just hope for the best and live your life. I guess hope is compelling. Me I try to think in Buddhist terms about our age being a particularly unenlightened one and that things will change. Adaptationally, humans are a very resourceful species, but I do still worry that we have gone too far in the direction of killing off other life here--we cannot make it on our own.
Still, the earth will survive us all, reset, and go on to host forms of life far stranger than anything we know. Rats and pigeons and cockroaches will evolve into gods know what. That's really why I want to see what has happened 10,000 years from now. :)
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