I am: gender.

Can someone please tell me what it means to BE a MAN and what it means to BE a WOMAN? Why is it assumed that we are that different or in competition? Is it possible that we are all variations on the same theme, and because of very arbitrary and complex processes of hormones, pollutants even, and genetic determination we just have minor, yet profound enough functional and structural differences to merely pull off a organismic function allowing all things to continuously evolve on all levels of self?

We are in this together with a multiplicity of beautiful species of plant, animal and even microscopic organisms who are just as necessary for an evolutionary role as we are. The trees aren't in conflict with the shrubs, flowers, and network of species- the millions of trees and plants all communicate on a network of mycelium casting its interweb around the globe, perhaps even reaching out to coral... as they mitigate carbon, filter water/air/soil, and provide life giving infrastructure to all that lives.

We have come to dominate this specific realm, and therefore we have the common sense obligation to respect the greater systems around us by seeking to truly comprehend them through loving observation- as intimate as any other relationship that prospers. All systems of life prove themselves as clearly as we speak with words if we listen with meticulous, insightful, creative care. The demands of all things in existence evolve just like our needs evolve in order to assimilate and thrive within our surrounding circumstances.

Our planet, the galaxies and the microcosm infrastructures all the way down to amoeba and even beyond... have a consciousness of their own. Much like synapsis firing in our minds. We are not separate... even from the systems of our bodies that work in tandem to create one whole. We should not be permanently defined or pinpointed by conclusions derived from very different perimeters of days past. They should also not be forgotten, but built upon. We are here to measure, experiment and come to common sense outcomes in order to ascend like seedlings reach for the sun, and dung beetles track the stars. Though it is true that something always emerges from the wreckage. But why crash something as good as the Planet Earth and its splendor of diversity? --Airika Dollner

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