To begin our 2025 voyage, we bend an ear to the lucid vibrancy of ecological citizen Eileen Crist, with excerpts from a recent essay posted on Earth Tongues, titled The Secret Garden:



Later in the essay, we underlined this crucial passage:

The entire piece is worth careful consideration.
The entanglement of the twin dyings is well underway,
and will soon become irreversible.
Onward we stumble, into the gathering storms.
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