Friends, we on planet earth are dealing with lots of problems at this point in time. I won’t list them all but you know what they are.
Sometimes the extent of the problems is just overwhelming. There doesn’t seem to be any solution to most of them. We seem to be caught in a trap of our own making and, like any caged animal, we become stressed and edgy.
My advice? Look upwards. Beyond our earthly cage there is an amazing universe. Each clear night it reveals itself. Of course, we can’t see images like the one above. But the stars are there and, on occasion, so is the moon.
If we could get some comprehension of the infinite immensity of space into our small minds, then the problems we see on earth would shrink and so would our egos.
And if our ‘leaders’, vain creatures that they are, could do likewise, they might be humbled, reminded of their total insignificance in the scheme of things, their mortality.
A humble leader! That would be a first.
No.
What we humans need to be doing is looking down at the dirt from whence we came. We need to be remembering the Earth and all that she has given us. But no. But no.
With that would come humility. We, however, are not humble.
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David G Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I guess, looking down or looking up could both work, tsisageya. Of course, looking at the ground will probably reveal the existence of bottle tops, plastic containers, used condoms, chewing gum, cigarette butts, scraps of paper, dollops of spit…
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Beautiful photo David. I’ve enjoyed watching the night sky for the past week of clear nights. You’re right. I do feel humbled when I look up. I feel the same way when I walk along an ocean beach or get near a mountain range. But guess what? The little things are humbling sometimes too.
There’s a hummingbird that comes within two feet of me every morning to sip from the flowers on the front porch. This little guy is a pro and I admire his work and speed!
Yesterday, at the bottom of the hill off my back porch there was a deer standing on it’s hind legs to reach up and eat apples off our tree!
Every night lately when it’s just getting dark outside the lightening bugs are performing such a show in the field across the road that they beat anything we humans could manufacture.
I’m humbled by all these creatures. They live in harmony with nature and I wish we humans could learn to do the same. If only……….
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76-water Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 9:53 am
If only our egos would’nt get in the way. I get a kick out of how my dogs are not worried about war or bills or even the leak in the gulf. It sure seems as humans we create a lot of our own problems. My blood pressure could learn a lot from a dog or a butterfly or the deer munching on your apple tree. I enjoy this site along with the various posters. Peace and joy to all!
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Grace Reply:
June 29th, 2010 at 2:28 am
Kathy, thank you for sharing the communion with nature. I love the Hummers. They are native to America (people of the world). They represent a fierce, beautiful, darned cute little life. In many ways, it would be great if the Humming Bird were our National Bird. The Bald Eagle was too high up on the food chain, too close to us humans, that is why they are pretty much extinct. Just like the California Brown Bear – the one on our flag – was actually killed to extinction at the beginning of the last century. There is a painter who lives near the coast who did a series of paintings: Bears in captivity. They used to chain them up, put a tutu and a bow on the bear and make it do ballet moves. Very few paintings have moved me as much as those did.
Thanks for keeping us attuned.
Love,
Your distant sister-in-law,
Grace Morgan
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Kathy, it is a beautiful photograph but also it’s a bit scary. All that space out there and so many objects spinning around. Learning to live with nature rather than to control it should be our ambition.
76-water, egos get us into lots of trouble. Too often we end up with ‘egos’ on our face!
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Beautiful photo. Colors drew me in to a dreamy place.
Kathy it is great to see you here. Like a mind reader you showed up. I have thought alot about your farm and the laborers that worked for your family. How it was a mutual arrangement. They were treated like foreign exchange students, workinng for the summer. It was as dignified as you are. The way things should be.
Here, things are not as they should. Poor people pay “Coyotes” who jerk them around, mistreat them and they are lucky to show up alive. That is the social darwinistic struggle they must attain before the privelege of standing out on the street corners, selling themselves as “Day Laborers.” You see them everywhere. They will do whateever you need for $10-$15 perhour. They have no protections and many of them sleep under bridges. They are treated as an uncomfortable, awkward, if menacing aspect of society – as you can imagine. Except that people just can’t resist a good deal on gardening – or whatever.
Imagine this for a while – I must go now.
I will keep looking up, it is something humans need to do a little bit more of. I say that as a person who has spent quality time in forests.
Cheers, all!
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