This morning's thoughts

This morning while at my kitchen sink I glanced up in time to see a magnificent buck coming towards me.  He had four to five points on each side of his antlers.  He was following a doe, and as I raised my camera to get his picture a car came down the drive and set him to moving off quickly for the shelter of the brush line of Manzanita and Toyon.

I thought how lucky I am to live among nature and have all this in my yard.  Then it occurred to me that I am in THEIR yard.  Animals, nature, go on doing what they do in spite of what us humans have erected in their domain.  They might alter their path or build their nest in a different tree, but always they continue living their lives the best they can.

I then thought of the perfection of a bird nest, or a mantid’s egg casing and how it remains the same year after year.  The design perfect, though the location might change and the twigs, leaves, fibers of the nest differ from year to year.  The deer still graze on what is available, the coyote still hunts, the mountain lion still stalks.  It is the human that gets in the way and finds their valuable plants eaten, their dog or cat a coyote snack , or their sheep a lion treat, which makes us angry at nature. 

Tastes like honey, yum.

The human being is an anomaly on this planet.  The indigenous peoples live the closest to the rhythms of nature, but for the most part humans live here totally out of tune with the planet.  Their only concern is acquiring more of everything.  More space, more rooms, more things, more money and they build bigger, higher, farther, competing with nature, with each other. 

Tearing down the rain forests for grazing land while there is grazing land in other countries sitting unused because of governmental regulations is but one example.  If we looked at every countries strong points and exchanged what we had our world would flourish.  If we didn’t worry about who had more of something, if it wasn't about money, or power the world’s people could work together for sustenance.

I think the happiest people on our planet today are those that live in harmony with nature, not influenced by warring factions, acquiring things or power.  They farm, they manufacture, they exchange, they love and live.  They aren't wasting time watching screens for entertainment and drama. 

Our world has shrunk through our technologies, which is a good thing.  Finding our balance between what we need, what we want and what makes us happy needs to be in better balance with our planet, our home. 

Many people worry about the earth, but I've got news for you, we can decimate every living thing on this planet and the earth will survive as she has done for millions and millions of years.  What lives and flourishes on her surface changes, but she lives on. She too is subject to what happens in the world she spins in and that is what her survival is connected too.  It is all energy.  Maybe in the interest of her survival, keeping the energy balanced, when those upon her surface threaten her balance in her rotations, her place in her universe, she rumbles and thrusts her crust to eliminate the problem. 

I think of all the huge rocks flying about in space and how this ball of “blue” has been missed by the big ones.  Even the space rocks, asteroids, comets, follow paths and patterns; more balance.    

Life is many patterns linked together in a moving fabric, from the teeniest to the mightiest, from the closest to the farthest we are all connected, and affected by every thought and action we take.  For some reason we humans have a consciousness like no other being on this planet, I suspect there are others in the black void of our universe that we are linked to.  It is through our unique consciousness that we have an awareness of the affect we make.  We need to turn up that awareness so we quit building up the toxins that will/could end life on this planet that is “our” home.