Monday, February 8, 2021

Greta Thunberg - Climate Change

The voice we hear is  a young voice. It comes from a young woman. The words we hear are those spoken before by many other voices with the same words. The perspective has changed with the passgage of time. The voice now is the voice of youth. A youth desperately disenfranchished with what it sees. The voice is no different for the words uttered sixty years ago had equally young voices to whisper them. Words largely ignored. Now those words, timeless pearls of wisdom, return to haunt us. Voices change as new bodies, new mouths arrive to speak the words of the eternal. There is eternity but we don't have eternity to change. We only have what we have always had ...  now. We need to change now. The clock doesn't wait patiently. It just keeps ticking. Each second, each minute, each hour of each day is passing. We only have now to change what will last well into the probability of better days, of a probable future. We only have now. Now to change. For the silent passage of the albatross.

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