Babu Menos 🎵<p>I was just given a quote from a statement Thich Nhat Hanh wrote in 2015, shortly before the Paris Climate Summit:</p><p>“Many of us have become alienated from the Earth. We are lost, isolated and lonely. We work too hard, our lives are too busy, and we are restless and distracted, losing ourselves in consumption.”</p><p><a href="https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanhs-statement-on-climate-change-for-unfccc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">plumvillage.org/about/thich-nh</span><span class="invisible">at-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanhs-statement-on-climate-change-for-unfccc</span></a></p><p>Found in a newsletter from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@vantablue" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vantablue</span></a></span> whose mailing list you might want to join: <a href="https://www.amandaquraishi.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">amandaquraishi.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Side note; I wrote a song about the (utter lack of) results of the Paris Accords: <br><a href="https://mirlo.space/babumenos/release/remember-paris" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mirlo.space/babumenos/release/</span><span class="invisible">remember-paris</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/RememberParis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RememberParis</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ThichNhatHanh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThichNhatHanh</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TouchTheGrass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TouchTheGrass</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meditation</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Loneliness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Loneliness</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Isolation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Isolation</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WorkLess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkLess</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Calm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Calm</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/KeepCalm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeepCalm</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/MultiCrises" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MultiCrises</span></a></p>