Habitat Acknowledgment

Let us open our minds and hearts to the lives of wild others with acknowledgment that we are here in what was until recently a place they belonged. This civilized construction, the displaced plants and pets and ‘food animals’ our species created and carried in, the roads taken to arrive here, have pushed them out of yet another place they once thrived. Many individuals and families have died as a result of our modern privileged presence. Our being here in our current lifeway is supremacist domination over the very existence of wild others. May civilization find its way to abandon itself in our remembering how to re-embed in habitat, how to remake our lifeway in wild community, inviting return wild diversity – of so many struggling and extirpated others, coexisting and belonging in a spirit of togetherness.