05/28/2026
And yes, you bet your ass I turned around to see if I could get the bird to a local wildlife rescue.
Unfortunately it had already passed, so I moved it out of the road.
Which honestly feels like the bare minimum.
One of the things that upsets me most is how casually we’ve started treating other living beings as disposable inconveniences.
As though animals don’t form bonds.
Don’t live in community.
Don’t experience attachment, stress, fear, companionship, or grief.
But honestly, how could we fully recognize those things in other species when so many of us struggle to acknowledge them in ourselves?
We live increasingly disconnected from one another.
From our communities.
From the natural world.
From our own humanity.
And I think that disconnection shows up everywhere.
In the way we drive.
In the way we consume.
In the way we move through spaces shared with other living beings.
In the way we stop seeing life around us as worthy of care unless it directly belongs to us.
I don’t think we’re meant to live this disconnected from each other—or from the rest of life around us.