How many lives...

can one live in a single lifetime? That is my question.

I remain alive, albeit in a different location in the bay area.

Every now and then my mind reaches back to past times, mostly yearning for them.

I look around at the present place and time... I see broken communities, people so individualized (or individuated) that they no longer exist in any form of group.... And then I also see wonderful individuals all around me that seem to keep the entire universe inside themselves.

I see an ecosystem that suffers from various diseases.

But mostly I just am, like everyone else.

I remember my friend, who, seeing this display of insectual love, wondered "are they kissing?"

Life is real, at least. Life remains real despite the modernizations and technologifications. I thank life for that.