Stand For Our Mother – Day 312

 

Stand For Our Mother

Tonight’s post will be short and sweet.

Amidst all the insanity, all of the human angst and suffering, the cruelty we inflict upon each other, and the struggles each of us engage in on a daily basis, sometimes just to keep our shit together enough to make it through one more day, there is one unequivocal, undeniable constant.

No matter who we are, no matter where we live, no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in on any given day, in any given country, there remains one aspect of this life that we all share: Mother Earth.

Being a Mother

The parallels are there. They’re undeniable. We call this planet upon which we live our lives Mother  Earth for a reason. Just as there’s a reason that we never call this planet Father  Earth.

This observation is not in any way a knock on fathers. Not at all. It is, rather, an acknowledgment of the obvious.

Mother Earth feeds  every thing and every being who lives upon her from her body . In one form or another, we all continue to seek and receive nourishment from the body of our mother, the planet Earth, every single day.

In order to keep us safe, she grows on her ‘skin,’ so to speak, materials that we need and use to build shelters that protect us from the elements.

In order to keep us healthy, she provides the perfect environment for plants to thrive and grow. These plants not only feed us, but also make medicines and other remedies that serve us, heal us, and help us maintain our balance, inside and out.

In order to keep us happy and entertained, warm in the winter and cold in the summer, in order to keep us with gold and silver on our fingers, clothes on our backs, and modes of transportation that take us across town or to the other side of “her,” our planet gives to us of herself.

Everything we use to sustain life here on this planet is created out of or provided directly by Mother Earth.

Taking Responsibility

For the longest time, she has indulged us – as a mother who cherishes her child might, and often does – even though she knows, deep down, that every child eventually needs to grow up and face the consequences of its choices.

Our actions, from what we do when we wake up each day, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the lights we use, to the faucet we turn off, have consequences. And if we don’t start paying attention and noticing the consequences of our actions, it’s akin to jamming a fork into our mother’s eye.

How can we expect her to keep taking care of us if all we do is take, take, take? She needs to recuperate. She needs time to replenish herself and her stores so she can share her bounty with us for years and hopefully millennia to come.

Climate Strike

My whole point is that we need to start standing up for our mother. We need to treat her with the respect and love and appreciation that she deserves. And in order to motivate others to join us in a mutual effort to work together to bring healing to her and, indeed, all of us, we need to take a stand.

If you’ve only been lending half an ear to the latest efforts to bring awareness to climate change, then you may not be fully aware that the youth of the world are asking that we all pay attention and stand up for Mother Earth tomorrow.

We’re being asked to walk out – go on strike – stop working for a time (whether it’s at school or at work or anywhere in between) in order to bring the world to a halt!

Join Me – Join Us – Join Our Youth

Here are a few links to some articles and resources that can explain who, what, when, where, and why.

But the important thing is taking a STAND. Show up. Take responsibility. Don’t be afraid to ‘come out’ as a science believer and a Mother Earth LOVER.

She’s loved us all this time. Let’s love her back – now – when she needs her children to grow the hell up already and stop poisoning her just because we can.

(T-799)

Climate Strike – Day 123

 

Climate Strike

This will be a quickie post. It’s actually more of a PSA (public service announcement).

Just in case you haven’t been paying attention to the many news stories that have been circulating recently, a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, has inspired students around the world to participate in a “Climate Strike” tomorrow, Friday, March 15, 2019.

Greta herself, a sixteen year old, has been striking from school every Friday for months. She’s attained world-wide notoriety, even addressing the uber-wealthy and powerful at the Davos Forum in Switzerland this year, calling them out on their inaction regarding this most dire of emergencies facing our planet.

She’s even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of her astonishingly successful advocacy and activism.

I’m sure I would be thinking about this much more consciously if my sons were still in school. That’s not to say that I don’t fully support this action, because I absolutely do! In fact, I intend to show my support for the protest locally, in body and voice. I’m just saying that, had my kids still been at home (and undoubtedly participating tomorrow), I almost certainly would have written about this sooner because we would have been discussing it here at home every night.

Which is also another reason why I want to post about this tonight. If you don’t have a youngster in your household (now or ever), it’s possible this may have escaped your attention. It happens. It’s hard to keep up – so we have to stick together in this and make sure we don’t miss the big stuff.

In order to give just a little bit of a different perspective to this effort, I am providing a link to a post about this event that was just recently sent out by an organization that has a most unique approach to nature: Perelandra.

PSAs – Two for One!

I figure I’m providing two PSAs in one by writing this post on the Climate Strike.  Not only am I alerting you to the fact that the youth of the world are taking part in this monumental and historic mass protest demanding immediate action on climate change, but I’m also connecting you with an amazing organization that I’ve worked with for decades.

The essences and other products of Perelandra, similar but definitely different from Bach Flower Remedies, can improve your health and bring you into balance (internally and externally) with Nature. Even better, though, is the opportunity Perelandra affords us to learn how to speak directly with Nature and work with it consciously to heal Mother Earth (and as a result, ourselves). I’ve been a fan of Machaelle Wright (the founder of Perelandra) and her products for decades.

And in spite of how that paragraph you just read sounded so much like a damn info-mercial, I have no financial interest or stake in whether you buy anything from Perelandra.

I’m simply providing a link to Perelandra’s post on tomorrow’s Climate Strike because they put together a really great compilation of resources and alternatives you can participate in if you don’t get a chance to support the strike tomorrow.

I am moved and motivated by the incredible passion and commitment these young people are showing. Sadly, they know it’s up to them. My generation has failed and continues to fail them repeatedly, a turn of events that boggles my mind.

Let’s turn this thing around. Let’s get our country on the right path – joining the rest of the world in the battle of our life. We must not give in, give up, or lose sight of the fact that not only are we humans all ‘connected.’  We are actually all one world and one people.

I know we can do this.

(T-988)