Analogs

Some of my purposes in this blog include, first, to escape the trap of the familiar- as fear about our collective ecological future right now. Second, and related, find new sources of and possibilities for ecological hope- looking at what others are doing.

The third goal is to create a virtual analog to a physical place. This blog is a daily exercize in considering the physical site of Ghost Nets as one level of a series of analogs. The physical site of Ghost Nets was once a dump site. Now it is a wetlands system integrated into a larger series of constallations. Every time I consider another site around the world, it is layered onto my consciousness and becomes another analog. This blog may be the most important analog to that integration.

The first consideration is, what is changing on the ground? Talking to the old timers around here. No one can recall a Winter like this one. Though one friend predicted that it was all going to be offset by one h— of a blizzard. We’ll see. Today is colder.

Considering global warming and rioting, a perpetual war machine from Washington, an economy still vested in fossil fuels and other practices that guarantee accelerating global devastation I am looking for the right circumstances, hope in the periphery of my vision.