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Did the dinosaur and!tell you some of those rocks would continué to earth and trigge glow long after they had cooled. could release a k From the sky too there was a terrible Intensity that what we have to stirred change deep inside her... she yearned to now, could prov change... to move with her beloved Earth Mother... could be deplete NEXUS New Times Nine - 1989 Not just History... Nor omy Herstory,,. but... wie . . SES... Now this is a ee a bit of a yarn... gleaned from fragments She wove her dream ofthe wisps of the swamp mists in answer to questions asked of the Earth Mother while sharing into the pores of her own skin... the fires of the earth _deep meditation or matching breaths with the great trees, the and sky combined to cause her internal image to living rock, and circles of her blood, her people. shift and glide... it felt like her dream state had Are they my memories? Their memories? Random frag- merged with her normal waking state... she ments of imagination? Stimulated by.... what? Are fairytales stretched from her shoulders and her fingers be- memories? Is science fiction prediction? Is prediction science came like the swamp vapours, but strong and flex- fiction? ible... and... when she pushed she could feel the alr = OM ah ue otk le Mi el on Be Mal rm 3 She wove her dream of the wisps of the swamp mists into the pores of her own skin... the fires of the earth and sky combined to cause her internal image to shift and glide... it felt like her dream state had merged with her normal waking state. she stretched from her shoulders and her fingers be- came like the swamp vapours, but strong and flex- ible... and... when she pushed she could feel the air as if it was water... the air was in fact a lot thicker than it had been. She yearned for the lightness of the clouds and her bones became hollow... she called to the Sky... to the Light... and, as she pushed with her new skin like hair against the air, she rose into the sky... a bird. She met others who had also had the dream of flight and she sang to them with her sweet new voice. Together they sang to the others still on the ground... they sang of the joy of flight... the freedom of the upper air... and some came... at first only a few... and then in their thousands... so that a new race of feathered sky people roamed the atmos- phere, spreading the seeds for a different sort of new growth in a new world: Oh, incidentally one of the primate groups also learnt to fly. They live along the coast... I’ve seen them gliding on their leathery wings through the night sky. The Dragon and the Phenix CUNSU 1U IIS OK... TU TIS LIVI... GNU, Gd ate PY IsU O nce there was a young dinosaur who loved to with her new skin like hair against the air, she rose play.... and dream of wild impossible things. While into the sky... @ bird, rolling onher back in the shallow marshes she would She met others who had also had the dream of watch the clouds as they rose up into the sky... she flight and she sang to them with her sweet new carefully noted the feathery wisps of steam as they voice. Together they sang to the others still on the separated from the swamp... the unbelievably ground... they sang of the joy of flight... the freedom huge bulk of the clouds... much largerthan her... the of the upper air... and some came... af first only a absolutely lovely way they floated through the ar... few... and then in their thousands... so that a new she of course would do it better... she would swim. race of feathered sky people roamed the atmos- So she dreamed... awake and asleep... and she phere, spreading the seeds for a different sort of shared her dream with her friends... they added to new growth in a new world: the dream... each with their own heart's wish. Oh, incidentally one of the primate groups also One day the earth shook as something huge fell leamt to fly. They live along the coast... I've seen out of the sky... it was dark for a very longtime... and them gliding on their leathery wings through the even when the light did come back everything had night sky. changed. The earth Herself would open up... right where you were walking... hot lava would burn... Did the dinosaurs disappear when a huge meteoroid hit the andi tell you some of those rocks would continué to earth and triggered unprecedented volcanic activity? This glow long after they had cooled. could release a level of background radiation comparable to From the sky too there was a terrible intensity that what we have today. The released carbon dioxide, then and stirred change deep inside her... she yearned to ‘0, _ could produce a greenhouse effect. The ozone layer change... to move with her beloved Earth Mother... could be depleted and the earth’s magnetic field disturbed. NEXUS New Times Nine - 1989