070612 #human The bigs are thoroughly enmeshed in the transformation into permanent humanity. Their firmware update process has been initiated. It's good, sad, exciting--what it's supposed to be, not without surprises of course. I don't mean to undervalue it. But the littles are still powerful aliens. Looking directly at them, locking unabashed gazes with them, remains a transcendent opportunity, a glimpse at the terrifying nakedness of the truth and beauty that existed before your stilted and dumbfounded authors ever started capitalizing on Truth and Beauty.