Second Great Migration
Friday morning in Eagle River Wisconsin. The woods by the lake are serene. In the north woods life is expressed by shear being.
I recall life in a busy Starbucks at this time of morning; the chatter of patrons describing morning drink orders to a barista who recognizes the payment collected by the swipe of a iphone screen across the sensor. At light speed the transaction is recorded in cyberspace, a single transaction of millions destined to be aggregated in the quarterly P and L report.
On our drive to the north woods yesterday we passed through Minocqua. A mid afternoon summer thunder storm had just passed. The forest close by the road glistened intensely green. We were delighted and slowed to observe three wild turkeys marching in single file by the roadside, a big tom and two females. A few minutes later three deer crossed the road and the vehicle ahead of us stopped allowing them to safely pass. I felt this was an old forest. The animals living here have precedence over us human latecomers. Theirs is the right-of-way.
GREAT MIGRATIONS
A theory:
A life-carrying asteroid
hit our planet
and life flourished in the warm ocean.Then,
a few billion years later,
the first great migration happened.
We crawled out of the ocean and
learned to live on land.Now
we’re embarking
on the second great migration.
We’re abandoning the physical world
and moving into a virtual one.
It may well succeed.Or life in cyberspace may not
be worth living.