After yesterday’s venture round the rabbit hole, I decided I need to get back on the proverbial ‘ship’. That ship is our Earth, the world around us that we can see and understand. It is bearing us safely through this spaghetti web of space and time; it is the point of relativity relevant to our existence.
I was thinking about vessels in this way and started to also think about how our bodies are vessels too; but they go further than this – obviously, we interact with the world around us through all of our senses. We navigate this world and all its offerings around us. But we are not captains of this ship.
Considering the planet in this way does somehow force more urgency on the issue of looking after it – we don’t have lifeboats. I’m not talking merely about carbon or energy conservation…but looking after ecosystems, the way we produce food, plunder the earth, treat each other, live together. As a society we have developed such an ingrained wastefulness of consumer culture that mega industries have risen and developed their business models upon. Almost all of us have become dependant upon it. Some major, very real and scary shifts will have to happen at some point.
Today’s entry is an amphora, an ancient form of vessel. I like the connotations with the vessels used by pharaohs to transport them to the afterlife; their tombs and canoptic jars. The vessel is indeed a sacred thing, and nothing more sacred than our very own Earth.
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