This episode is dedicated to all the creatures we have lost, and those we will continue to lose. I honor the pink dolphins who died in their own element, water, due to anoxia, in Tefé Lake, and then I tell the story of a little fawn I rescued this week. Today, I wonder: Can we free the fawn of life from the barbed wire of our delusions of power and rusted metal, before it is too late? Along with Pope Francis, I question our complacency and lack of concerted, concrete actions to address the mounting crises. And, like prancing deer, we go back to the forest, and to Chiribiquete, where the voices of our ancestors still long to remind us that the arc of human life has more than one, material-based, success oriented arc. Our connection to nature and divinity can be our saving graces. The Amazon continues to astound, in newly found earthworks, hidden below the canopy, and in the renewed efforts of Victorias Amazonicas, like Sonia Guajarara, who continue to demand their rights, and their wisdom be revalued and respected. Can we wake up before yet more water becomes fire?

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