To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.