Walking on borrowed time, we are books -
checked out from the library of gods.
Each god constructed in our image.
Each god our missing parent,
our last great wish for a universe
as vast as this
to make sense to a brain
as small as this.
~Kiran Mehdee
Children play in a flooded street after rising sea levels in Penjaringan subdistrict, North Jakarta. (The Globe and Mail)
My generation grew up accepting things like AIDS, cell phones and DVDs as part of our reality. For the generations growing up today things like Climate Change will be part of their framework when they think of their world.
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