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This is us:

We as a species evolved with the planet. The way we eat, the way our metabolic processes function, even the way our brains work in relation to our eco-cultural environment. The human race has a habit called anthropomorphism: to apply human characteristics to things that are not. At first glance this seems a little arrogant, certainly, an egocentrically asserted assumption, but…is it really? How can you shame a habit maintained by an entire species that just wants to understand.

Very dismal news came through in October that the Great Barrier Reef had suffered mass bleaching and a major part of it had died. This led environmental writer Rowan Jacobsen to publish an obituary, “The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25 million years old." But there’s still hope, and these positive news stories form 2016 certainly prove it right!

Everything we are doing here today- every personal process of transformation each one of us is going through on an individual level, no matter how insignificant it might feel, is in reality much, much bigger than ourselves. Every battle being fought within one’s self, every step towards the healing and accepting of one’s own heart to muster up the courage to express to the world, to reveal to the collective as a brave and vulnerable expression of authentic humanity is of tremendous, vital importance to the bigger picture.