Anthropomorphism   We’re told it’s always wrong — anthropomorphizing. Our fellow creatures are not like us, don’t think like us, and indeed the poor things don’t really think at all — northern pike, crested warblers, scarab beetles, mosquitoes, bread mold, paramecia — but how else to understand them, their struggles to eat, reproduce, survive? Their heavens and hells, their allies and enemies, needs and wants? The imperative of life is to live — call it intention or just call it chance, life finds a way. What can we do but give the living world a human mind, although we know it’s wrong. There’s so much we don’t know.     © Michael Fleming Marlboro, Vermont September 2023