Has your heart been pierced by the truth of what is happening to our planet, our earth, our one and only home?
Have you been able to look past the shiny things? The cars, the jets, the new furniture, the new face, the cell phones and satellites and constant chatter?
The one thousand ads you are exposed to each day? The next big thing? The illusory shapeshifting that tells you that you can buy anything you want, be anything you want, even beyond the laws of nature?
Can you see underneath to the toxic backside, the fast food, the plastic food, the plastic, plastic, plastic everywhere, the persistent toxic chemicals, the poison in the soils, the air, the water, even the rainwater is toxic.
The hungry children in the “shit hole” country combing through the detritus the rich world dumped there? The garbage patch the size of a country floating on a dying ocean?
And the incessant burning to fuel it all, burning away the conditions necessary for life on this, our precious blue dot, our only home?
Have you sat on the ground and just observed an ant hill or a birds nest? Have you seen any of the wild things? Have you listened to a forest or a river? Can you understand the vastness of the miracle or of the loss?
Has your heart been pierced yet?…
yes yes yes and today my heart is heavy with the news of the radioactive capsule lost in Australia. beyond words.
I opened your post just after reading a Story Birds post. You might like it, as it is along the same lines... https://storybird.substack.com/p/the-persimmon-tree
Perfect Annabel. Thanks for writing this. My heart was pierced over 50 years ago...