Work in Progress by A. R. Stone
As we live, we often forget we are human. What is meant by this? I mean that we forget that we are capable of something more than the apes, our nearest cousins. We get caught up in loving and fearing, fighting and taking care of young; we get stuck in our feelings of grief or in the quest for attention. We think about food and about sleep and about if we are cared for and all the myriad of things that occupy us moment to moment, seeing, feeling, breathing and being, like all life around us.
It is my personal opinion (don't worry, I have many!) that we should spend as much time as possible engaging the human. I agree with Bucky Fuller in that the mission of life on Earth is to evolve; humans are at the point of greatest evolution, maybe to the point of jumping off the planet itself. I think it is our responsibility to the planet to extend and excercise the most extreme of our own evolution in the most human direction possible. This involves expanding consciousness, exploring and understanding the world around us, practicing communication and language skills, especially those that are non-verbal and non-gestural (like writing and art and music), and, most importantly, developing work. People forget that work is god. What to I mean by that? That it is human to work, and that being human is a celebration of our lives, which I call god. Work is not just staying alive: we have to do work that evolves the species, that extends what it is to be human, that pulls us up out of where we were to the unknown.
This kind of work is my mission on Earth and gives me great pleasure. Welcome here, and help me celebrate my work; tell me about your own work, for seeing others change and evolve in our dance is the greatest joy.