consumption as a generative ACT V – Rebirth (blow out candles, take a long breath) We are creatures made from rebirth. Whether it is the words we chose poorly, the loved ones we've lost, the pain we have invited, or that which we were given without invitation. We are the sweet and the rotten. We are the grace and the unforgiven. We are the complacent and the agitator. And when we nurture the soil, allow ourselves to be devoured, we too become the fruit.