Day 17

We live and work in a vertical world, layer upon layer of earthen materials stacked skyward, reaching for the heavens. Do we notice the separation from the ground, or the ethereal presence that neatly surrounds our daily movement? We are creatures of the terra firma, yet we crave to fly in fossil-fueled contrivances, slumber hundreds of feet above the ground, toil in structures engineered to sway when the earth shifts violently beneath our urbanity. Is this our destined evolution?