What is truly amazing is that humans live our lives like what we believe is true, when most of it isn’t. We believe in race, in class, that global warming isn’t true, that America’s form of government is the best in the world, in the dollar. in brand identities, in national boundaries, in thousands of different gods, that chocolate is not a drug, that men should control womens’ bodies, that there is a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans, that humans are the only intelligent species on earth, that there is no life other than us in the universe, that there is just one universe, that caffeine is not a drug, that we need to buy buy buy, and I could go on and on. Just think what humans believed 100 years ago, 100 before that, 100 before that, 100 before that. Most things believed 100 years ago were false, and even more were false 100 years before that, and even more…. The basic fact is that most of what we currently believe will be proven false or overthrown in another 50 let alone 100 years. So what this leads to, is the basic fact that why are we in such a rush to destroy the earth we live on. We are all basically on a starship traveling through space and right now there is no Planet B. Maybe we should all slow the F down and chill for a bit. Oh by the way, if what you believe is actually wrong, why not the hell cut everyone else some slack maybe try to live in peace and drop all the barriers we have thrown up between ourselves. At this point the way we are headed we are all just passengers on the Titanic. That is unless we unify overthrow the current Captains and turn this boat in another direction.
When you spend all day outraged at the latest and newest outrage of the day, you can easily miss the beautiful things.
2/10/21
There is a beauty and excitement among all creatures great and small in waiting
2/11/21
Love, hope can be hidden and appear to be gone, but Spring will come with the sun.
2/12/21
Life persists despite things that can bury it, life persists and with sun and time it heals and grows.
2/15/21
Before the storm, there is a pause, a last minute scurrying, a checking of resources, then a settling into wait. Watch the birds they know this. The plants as well
2/16/21
Even while buried in a storm worth of snow, life, light, hope persist. In times of disaster and storm life knows to rest, to conserve energy to manage through. To use the resources wisely that have been carefully stored away in warmer days.
2/17/09
Like grief or trauma light and Spring can seem so far away while life is buried deeply under heavy, heavy snow.
2/18/19
Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state. That is why the snow slowly just disappears. That is what will happen. If only grief and trauma, like snow, could disappear. But instead the injury goes from dark to bruised to discolored. Winter to Spring is a process of transformation. It’s a journey.
2/22/21
Life waits. Still buried, but still alive. This feels like the country right now with Covid. Still under the crushing weight, but knowing that soon we will be past it.
2/23/21
After snow and darkness life can feel broken and deformed but light and time lead to new growth and life
2/24/21
As the world turns and changes do we cuddle together for warmth for support? Is this our true nature – to live among others in communities of support? If indeed so, then what deep dysfunction keeps us from doing so?
2/26/21
There is no climatic battle, no blazing fight between seasons it is as simple as light bringing warmth more light with each rotation of the earth, and so with us with each rotation a day slips away. Live it well, live them all well. Love them well.
3/1/21
Warm now but bitter cold is moving in. As I take the picture one lone snowflake lands. Weather like life is sometimes suspended between choices and change.
March 2,21
Bulbs planted over a decade ago through multiple winters and seasons persist. How many have not? How many did not make it to this Spring, to this season? Life persists, but not for all. Imagine your garden with Spring flowers that come up every Spring for those you lost. Every spring for a few weeks or months they could blaze with color.
March 3/21
My Farmer friends already know we are in Mud season. How did we become so divorced from food and the land that we did not know that? What other things have we lost? What does the sometimes calamitous change of seasons nudge us to remember, to know, to learn? To forget?
March 4/21 Cold wind has come through. It is so easy to focus on the weather, just like on your current mood, joys, frustrations…. Yet how often do we not notice the climate? Where is your life trending? What is/are the long-term things you need to attend to, notice, enjoy before it/they are gone? It is often not the day to day changes that cause our long-term regrets, but the things long-term we failed to appreciate, do, enjoy, embrace, cherish, relish, attend to. Often this is because we put it off waiting for the next sunny, rainy, day. 3/26/21
When Spring finally arrives it brings storms and gusts of winds and traveling companions to set off with amid the flowers on another grand adventure.
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