Love Your Mother

It's Earth Day.

Taking a small break from Maggie and the Kits. They'll be back next week.

I always have to chuckle when people talk about saving the Earth like if we don't, the Earth won't survive.

It's we humans (and probably all the other beings we share this ball with) who won't survive. Our mama will be just fine. Without us around, she'll recover her balance, green up again, go through the whole rigamarole, and maybe even have an intelligent species who will know how to treat her. Dolphins, perhaps. They may not have opposable thumbs, but they know how to live. 

In order to survive, we have to learn to cooperate instead of all this "power over" stuff.

The world knows how to balance itself. We humans always think we know best, and seriously, what do we know? We know how to unbalance the world we live in, that's for sure.

We know how to make wars, and kill people, and steal, and cheat, and lie, and a hundred other things.

We also know how to love, to appreciate, to respect, to go with the flow, and with much more difficulty, to just BE. BEing is hard. You might think DOing is hard, but DOing is nice and distracting. BEing means you have to look around you and probably inside yourself as well. If you don't like what's inside, then DOing becomes the operative situation.

So many people don't like what they see inside themselves. What have we done to ourselves?

Do yourself a favor on this Earth Day. Remember that you are part of the ecosystem on this planet. Not the lord of it, PART of it. Now, spend five minutes and look out the window. Better yet, go outside, if you live in a place where you can do that. Breathe deeply. Let yourself FEEL your surroundings. Feel how it's a part of you. Let the emotion flow over you. It won't hurt you, that emotion, it will merely flow through and over and then be done. Was it sad? Was it a longing? Was it joy? Just let it BE, while you BE. BE a part of everything that is around you.

Look into your pet's loving eyes. They don't judge. Let them love you as you deserve to love yourself. Take a cue from your animal friend. They don't see the mask. They see what's inside, and they know you are a wonderful person. Take that to heart. Because you ARE a wonderful person. 

Everything is wonderful, even fire ants.

We are all part of the tapestry that we call this Earth. Instead of trying to shred your fibers, become part of all of the strands around you. Ahhhhhhh. 

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Happy Earth Day.