Slow Mother Blog
03.08.14
We’ve passed through what seems like the
mildest winter ever here – cool nights, but with beautiful clear blue sky days…Almost
everyday we are at the beach, before or after school - Pacha and Yani dancing
on the waves, hearts leaping as the whales and dolphins pass around them,
breathing in miraculous golden sunsets that soothe the soul.
We’re living in a bubble of comfort and
privilege; feeling safe, supported by family, well fed, appreciated, useful –
as so much of the outside world seems to be collapsing in fear and
suffering.
News media and facebook feeds have been
saturated with death and destruction and endless blame for one side or the other.
People have marched on the streets here – but the images captured (or highlighted)
by the media are disturbing too; people look desperate and overcome by emotion
– making many people shrink back to stay with what they know is comfortable and
routine.
And the news of the acceleration of climate
chaos – I can hardly bring myself to share the latest information about methane
spikes from Siberia – so shocking it is paralyzing…
Yet, we know this is all part of a
global machine of war based on a mythical economic model and a distorted
hierarchical thinking- that has no future and has no heart. We have to believe that since it was
created by humans, it can be dismantled by humans.
So what can we do?
I don’t know…just stay alive? stay awake?
keep our hearts open? make a pact to ourselves everyday not to
ignore the things we see in our own surroundings that can be made more
peaceful, more whole? Dismantling
that suicidal system starting in our own backyards…
Today I was deeply moved by a youtube clip
of a bear saving a crow that had become trapped in a small pond inside its zoo
enclosure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJmPSv3AkM). Instead of eating it, the
bear left it to recover and (hopefully) fly off.
It reminded me of the letter Bruno Manser once
wrote to me, about a swallow he saved from drowning in a river (that with the
help of Fuyuta Matsuya became a song) – even when all hope seems lost, a good
heart is moved to try.
Is that deep human instinct to help those
in need a universal law that is shared throughout all life forms? Along with
this universal need to play, to touch, to laugh, to love – is that spirit of
protecting, nurturing, caring - the one that will lead us home? Are our hearts strong enough to choose
the way of compassion and kindness – of love?
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| Lots of joy in generations to come! |
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| Greg (from Regen Australia) helped provide 50 native trees for national tree planting day at Yani's school |
1 comment:
I find the way in which you live your lives as a family very inspirational. Your connections with the land and living with a sense of peace and purity is one to be proud of, and i hope that people can likewise identify the need for the simple aspects of life. -Amy,18.
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