to Sequoia

MOTHER LODE / 2016 - 2 minute film featuring the poem Live Rust written in response to August 2015 Gold King Mine breach to Animas River

Friendship loses itself if one allows desire for what a friend has, offers, or is to override the longing for loving kindness. 

...it looks like the comforts of the lower middle to upper middle class lifestyle to which I have been privileged are luxuries the community of life either cannot afford or they are luxuries that have been accomplished by unaffordable means.

In either case, Earth runs on empty at the moment and is desperate for rest. Like a mother depleted from nursing her infant while maintaining a home and working a full-time job outside the home, the ecological community suffers a physical and emotional breakdown.