One of the most important (and overlooked) root ideas fundamental to human knowledge, language, science and behavior… is relation. It’s not a bad candidate for the top of the ‘tree of identity/meaning’, but us moderns have been trained to look »anywhere else… and to ignore the actual repercussions of our lifestyles and ‘world views’ (mostly delusions of grandeur that produce dead worlds that momentarily appear convenient or advanced).

The rest of the living world cannot and does not defect from actual relation.

In a living place, the opportunities and relational signalling contexts are infinite. Our cities and homes, however, are reasonably understood as the polar opposite of a living place. There, we suffer from many forms of ‘convenience’ that end up as isolation, deprivation… and disorientation.

Within cities, places such as parks and gardens (backyards, too) become amplifiers for relation… when and if we place our attention there.