There exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
--Mary Oliver, Upstream
Happy Feast of St. Francis of Assisi!
Image source: Master of St. Francis, St. Francis preaching to the birds outside of Bevagna (1260-1280),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi#/media/File:Francis_preaching_the_birds.fresco._master_of_st_francis._Assisi.jpg
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