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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.

cecil
18 April 2010

Picture of the Week:

You must be a Carpenter....you've hit the nail on the head....Thank you.

Hey M(ondo)T(errestrial),
Your concern for our fellow critters is laudable, but when will you stop eating "turkey bacon"?

"You see, the problem with us is that we think there’s a world outside us and that we’re living in that world. But it is not the case. You are not in the world; the world is in you." (Vigai Shankar)

40th anniversary...! so earth-day is already a big girl, hope she knows what she does...! I´ll make a toast to the Pachamama!

& nice neigborhood foto!. One month and a half without natural gas and two weeks with a bedroom & kitchen cracking-ceiling made me wonder about home a bit lately!

gracias for the stream, Cecil & saludos!,

Arcadia

Arcadia: One month and a half without natural gas and two weeks with a bedroom & kitchen cracking-ceiling made me wonder about home a bit lately!

NS: That’s right, 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.

Can’t you switch over to LP (bottled) gas for a while, until NG is restored? One merely needs to switch the little orifice to a smaller diameter hole (I’ve done it many times). A plumbing supplier will tell/sell you what you need for a few pesos. No need to go without gas.

Did your local rock art get disturbed? Do you have a favorite theory regarding the origins of drawings, that require an aerial view, being created in a pre-flight era?

Thx, KR... always looking for something to swing my hammer at.

Hola, amiga mia, 'V'... sorry to hear about your heating problem, especially as fall is in your air (but I see the temperatura is in the pleasant 20's ahora, si?).

Howdy, NS. We all here enjoy a slice or two of the old bird bacon once a week... perhaps not all that swell for the arteries, but a little taste treat is always good for the soul.

I wonder if there is a connection with Vigai and Ravi (and his daughter Norah)? Or maybe Shankar is as common as Gonzales, eh? Regardless, it's no wonder you're so heavy, my friend, carrying around the world as you do.

BTW: NS: That’s right, Shocked it just dawned on me that, for you Chileans especially, mother Earth has not been making ‘your day’ at all.

Arcadia lives in Rosario, Argentina, birthplace of Che Guevara (speaking of rebels ).

MT: We all here enjoy a slice or two of the old bird bacon once a week..

Ns: Not "all." Certainly not the "bird."

MT: Arcadia lives in Rosario, Argentina

NS: Woa !!
That was sure one hell of an earthquake, moving Arcadia, and the city of Rosario, all the way from northern Chile into Argentina! Arcadia's damn lucky if her only damages were cracked ceilings, and a disconnected gas line! I suppose she'll have to change her passport, along with her gas service, now.

Mui simpatico, Arcadia,
NS (Naturally Shiftless)

Ns: Not "all." Certainly not the "bird."

The bird is only in your mind... fuhgettaboutit!

MT: The bird is only in your mind..

NS: So is the bacon, and your clogged arteries.
Have you tried 'Baco's' (tm); made from soy and some tasty toxic chemical waste, I believe. It makes an acceptable BLT imo.

MT: fuhgettaboutit!

NS: You Texans, and your expressions.

NS: So is the bacon...

Mind food, my friend, mind food.

NS: Have you tried 'Baco's' (tm); made from soy and some tasty toxic chemical waste, I believe. It makes an acceptable BLT imo.

I'm interested in those tasty toxic chemical wastes. I figure if I can consume enough of them without dropping over dead, then my body may be acclimated enough to live on the outer reaches of the Solar System eating only those toxic chemical wastes. Elimination would be harmless in that environment and I figure what the hell... it's only another part of my mynd, eh?

But to answer your question (at last), negative, I've not had the privilege of indulging in Baco's (tm). You make it sound like I may very well never try Baco's (tm). BLT = Baco Loony Tunes?

NS: the natural gas cut and the cracked ceiling? as long as I know it wasn´t the chilean earthquake, just old building progressive damage plus a bit stupid neighbor!. Bottled gas? yeah, it could have been a partial solution, at least for kitchen use!, but I finally opted for nomadic life, microwaves, eat outside and use the kitchens and the bathrooms of several ones around... this week (if we don´t blow away in the try.. ), the entire building will have the natural gas service restored again. Thanks for your concern!

Did your local rock art get disturbed? Do you have a favorite theory regarding the origins of drawings, that require an aerial view, being created in a pre-flight era? ... hey!..., we don´t have Nazca or similar lines on this side of the border!

Cecil: yeah, we had only a few cold days in the last one and half month, por suerte!. Cheers!