Breakfast Wishes - Sunday Toasts
Yours truly has finished this morning's breakfast with a simple meal of French toast and some turkey bacon. This was Nathan's request since yesterday when he let me know several times that's what he wanted for Sunday breakfast. His wish came true.If only our own dreams and wishes and wants came true as easily as a breakfast of French toast... life would be constantly fulfilled and make us downright useless. Should we all have that power at our command, especially in our current state of affairs, I'm quite sure hu'manity as we know would be eliminated like an unwanted pest.
It seems like our only adversary is ourselves... and often times our Self. It is these two imaginings that we see ourselves to be - something we have come to call 'ego' and that otherworldly dimension that lies beyond time and space and unites us with what we deem as 'all'... it's the best we can do with the equipment we have and that has been given to us by Nature herself.
"We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us" - Walt Kelly (creator of Pogo, whose first use of this quote was on a poster for Earth Day 1970)
April 22, 2010, which is this Thursday, will be the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. By all accounts from believers and the faithful our Earth will be around to enjoy the celebration that acknowledges the Earth as the only hunting grounds we have. For it is upon this singular planet, third rock from the Sun, that life as we know it evolved and continues to do so.
This phenomenon is not for mankind's benefit as so many of us are led to believe. We have become, over our short stay on this planet, jaded because we have learned to write our own history. Now we know that when we write history it is only the winning side that gets the right to become the hero factor that historians place upon pedals as the victor of the era in which history is written. And so far, we, hu'manity has been the victor over all other lifeforms that have lived upon this planet far, far longer than our most distant relatives. That gives us a special place in history. It's easy to do when we are the only species who enjoys writing about ourselves. Why would we place say, the common housefly as superior to ourselves when they don't write or create things that entertain and educate the hu'man?
So as a humble gesture to our Earth, we have but yet created another reminder to ourselves that this planet is indeed to be not only acknowledged for it's importance in maintaining life as we know it, but is responsible for it's demise as well. The last three earthquakes (Haiti, Chile and China) show how fragile life can be when the ground below our feet shakes, rattles and rolls around. All the things we assure ourselves to be become just as rattled as the land experiencing these quakes. All our sciences, arts, philosophies and religions do little in stilling our unrest during the violent activities of the Earth. We become equals to all other life experiencing these same seizures the earth is having at that moment.
There is no place to run when the Earth quakes, spews, floods, blows and burns as it has far longer than the life it supports has been here. It's as alive in it's own way as our life is, but we are unable to hear it as well as those lifeforms that inhabit the same space as we do. We're not as attuned to those signs the occur before the quake happens, the tsunami strikes, the volcano explodes and the hurricane's force destroys our shelters. Our heads are too busy talking to each other without listening to the sounds and seeing the signs the Nature provides to the beasts and fish of the Earth.
Unlike our hu'manity, all other creatures, great and small, have far more experience than we do stored into their cells to heed the warnings of Earth happenings. We have devised various instruments to keep watch of these occurrences that bring harm to us but these instruments are still far from being perfect. We have no choice but to continue learning about this Earth we sprung from and have become what we are. That is the most natural thing we can do...continue struggling to stay alive as all other creatures have done and continue to do.
But we wreak havoc in many ways upon this Earth that, if we were the Earth itself, I'm quite sure would trouble us. The enormous loss of wildlife, most of it to make room for ourselves to continue proliferating throughout the globe, is exhaustive in scope. But how many of us have given any serious thought to any of these creatures whose time upon this Earth is limited by mere years? And what is it that we can do to save at least some of them from going the way of the dinosaur?
As much as we have increased our knowledge base through our curiosity, we still have very little knowledge to benefit the survival rate of these creatures that inhabit our world and have done so far longer than we hu'mans have been aboard the Spaceship Earth. We're really clueless when it comes to remedying the damage we have inflicted upon the Earth to not only sustain ourselves but to provide a Disneyland of fantasy and illusion to take our minds off the realities that face not only the creatures and flora of the Earth but also take our minds off the damage being done that we ourselves are responsible for. We have created wondrous escapes to deny the absolute realities that face all other life on this planet daily and in so doing, have made ourselves into foreign species that have acted similar to a dangerous virus that threatens this singular home for all Life and as far as we know today, the Only Home for Life, by sucking the life of all other things in order to sustain our ideas of what we believe we should be.
Raise a Toast!
Happy 40th Earth Day!
Happy 40th Earth Day!
cecil
18 April 2010
Picture of the Week:
Rock House
(with tile roof)
foto: cecil (around the neighborhood)
(with tile roof)
foto: cecil (around the neighborhood)
I´ll make a toast to the Pachamama! 
it just dawned on me that, for you Chileans especially, mother Earth has not been making ‘your day’ at all. I’m surprised that, what with your location being so far north of the epicenter, you would have cracks in your ceiling and gas disconnects. With so many volcanoes spitting, and quakes a’shaking, one has to wonder why old Gaia isn’t being burned in effigy this Earth Day. 
