The sheer arbitrariness of being killed

Lucy Weir
Life Through a Lens
4 min readApr 7, 2024

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A moss covered tree stump in the middle of a woodland path which looks alive to me

It’s a week since I started the forty days and I’ve found it hard to find time to do any of the things I thought I’d do (I’ll write about how unideal this last week has been another day: I’m okay, just okay). Among other things, I managed to have an online spat with someone. They had argued that humans define what’s good. I know it’s paradoxical, and even, perhaps, perverse, to say so, but I don’t agree. I think what we…

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Lucy Weir
Life Through a Lens

What if words shape ideas and actions? The ecological emergency is us! Connection matters. Yoga, philosophy, www.knowyogaireland.com. Top writer, Climate Change