Otherness is the one redeeming feature of the otherwise boring human universe we have no choice but to inhabit. I give thanks to Nature everyday for the otherness it brings in its wake, and that everything does not have to have a human face to be real, true, of and beyond itself all at the same time. With trees, for example, there is no blah-blah; just a clear, unthinking knowing what is what. And whatever they want to make me know, they just show me, without any pretext or pretense. Trees,... read more