Hello Earth
Here I am, just after breakfast, still sipping my coffee, indoors but looking out at the clear, sunny day — while knowing it will be cold out there. I haven’t yet switched off the heater I had on all night.
Earth, you need the seasonal changes, I suppose. Or are they inevitable, and so all your life forms adapt? No other choice. It’s all part of something very much vaster than us (even than you, Earth). I’m glad of human curiosity, which has brought us what little understanding we have.
Leaning in, I think a blessing on science and scientists. Overall, over time, they have shared their discoveries generously. I’m equally grateful to the great mystics for sharing theirs – and to be living during a time of quantum physics, when the two kinds of understanding more and more meet.
Listing gratitudes, I acknowledge I’m fortunate to have lived when and where my birth and my life put me. The privilege of a pale skin, an affluent society, an education, a beautiful environment. Finding the like-minded.
Offering gratitude to Fate, or God, or whatever we call that (Goddess... Universe...) I offer it most of all to you, Earth our Mother. And then to this land, Australia, which has my heart — its many different landscapes, their stories, and the way they all speak to us if we can be still to watch and listen.
Inspired by Satya Robyn’s latest ecourse.
Written back in June when it was still Winter in Australia. Shared, as we enter Spring, with Poets and Storytellers United at Writers' Pantry #36.