2010-03-02T00:48:00.002-05:00

While contemplating this blog gig today I recalled a pre-blog online class I took years ago called Connect/Earth. It involoved exploring a new field of thought and study called Ecopsychology. The small group class I participated with consisted of 10 of us hailing from all parts of the world. One assignment among many was to ask permission from the out of doors "energies" to sit quietly in a space -- green space --and receive or enjoy the gifts of nature. The feedback I got from the classmate located in Israel was that her green space was 8 ft. square outside her office and standing there meant risking getting hit by a bomb.
I have no method to imagine this horrible fear, limitation or general restriction to the basics of what I call everyday life....I can only honor her attempt to grasp the feeling from what little she had. My first step outside drops me into a verdant expansive viewspace of blue and green ancient hills that fill my sight in every direction--broken only by trees and sky and earth and moss. I roll in this bed and quietly speak of gratitude for the wealth of this gift of nature...(I caught myself as I typed....for free.)
We take an d take and take seemingly freely yet at a huge cost to the planet and any future life as the program on coal on NPR reminded me once more this evening that I now use 20 pounds of coal daily just by living on American dirt. Think I will turn this light off and sleep in the light of the moon tonight waiting for the snow to light up the sky even brighter. Good night.
March 1, 2010 ~ Peggy McBride First toss of the boomerrang.

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