High Atop A Hill
Arhtur's Seat, Victoria December 29th 2022
The calendar does not usually drive my review of time. Moments don’t have to be placed between January and December to give me pause.
My mind and heart and soul are focusing on pain and joy and loss and gains that enable me to be a better human. A year does not encompass what makes me the person that I am, but it is part of the spices that add to the mix.
I was blessed to travel and see people that I had not seen in years during 2022.
I am filled with gratitude and so much love for that opportunity. Thanks to all of you who opened your doors and hearts.
Some days I get caught up in the beauty of the world and nature and I understand that it will continue no matter what humanity decides to do. We are part of that nature and if we do continue down a certain path we could make this planet uninhabitable.
Extinction of our race could happen.
These words I write I have said before. There will be more pain and suffering before things shift. You do not need to be a sage to feel this and see it as you look around the world.
Refugees to the left of us, glaciers melting to the right of us, water becoming an issue here and there. Once in a hundred-year weather events happen every month.
More animals becoming endangered and/or extinct each year.
Over the 4.5 billion years the Earth has been here, humans have been here about 300,000 years which seems like such a long time. Per centage wise that is 0.007% of the entire history of this beautiful planet, we live on.
Look what we have done over the last few thousand years and how our lack of care for our environment has put us where we see ourselves today. Of course, you could be a climate change denier, and if so, well, let me know what you think is happening with our earth? It certainly was not climate change that destroyed over 60% of the rainforests that previously existed.
I get up and look at the news of the world and I see society breaking down. People want to hold onto the world and life that we created such a short time ago. What do you mean I can’t go to the mall? I need to go shopping. I need to consume.
Buy what you need.
The pandemic did not change anything. Everyone just wants a cure so we can get back to normal.
Normal has not been so good.
Take another pill to make it all better. Get rid of the symptoms but avoid looking at the cause.
This of course is not just about Covid. By the way, does it feel like we are starting this up again with China opening up? Déjà vu all over again, as Yogi said.
This is the way many people look at survival.
This realisation that we are all part of nature is nothing new to me, but it is something I believe we ALL need to pay attention to.
We need to honour our earth and build community and love around that thought.
We do not stop acting to fix and correct the society we live in. We don’t run and hide.
But we do need to understand where we as humans fit into nature.
We are nature. We are not separate.
Today I sit with joy in my heart that one of my daughters is returning to Australia from my homeland the USA.
I also hold onto a bit of pain that two people that I love dearly do not communicate with me.
One is a son and the other is my only sibling, my brother, in Australia. The energy that reverberates from their choices, through my heart and soul, and within the family is real. My other siblings can only hear the story we tell them. I do know my brother made up tales after the fact about other matters. He said them to me on the phone. What is that about?
All I can do is send them my love. If they do not address me with words, I will send them my love. Forever, because that is what I feel.
My heart is full of love and forgiveness and not communicating solves nothing. This post is not about this bit of pain in my life, though.
My writing today is an invitation for anyone who reads this to reach out to me and let me know if they want to talk about their relationship with nature and humanity. Of course, we can talk about ‘problems’, but sometimes it is better to talk about how beautiful things are and how they make you feel, and how you can increase that vibration in your life.
I do not have any answers except that I will continue to move with love and care and do my best. I am human and I will make mistakes, that much I have learned in all these years.
But if I do not push forward with love, what hope do I have to be a better person?
This year is ending. I hope you find yourself in a space that allows you to love yourself and all that happens, good and bad, in your life. I also hope you can share your love with all that surrounds you.
I just want to let you know that if you ever need more from me in any way, I am only an electrical impulse away. It really is that easy.
Love to you all.
I’m always open to talk with you too, Paul. Let’s never let our long term connection and love go. We all love, often the best we can. I fear for nature but will try to protect her. I hold onto to the love. I make mistakes too. Since I seem to have issues with Substack this probably won’t get through to you, yet I’m glad I wrote it.