The news today includes yet another really destructive tornado, this one in Springfield, MA. The Midwest and east of the U.S. is being pummeled weekly. While here in the Pacific North-wet many of the facebook posts lately have been about how horrible our spring has been, with endless cold, rainy gray days. The crazy natural disasters/unusual weather seem to have begun with the tsunami in Japan, back in March. The tsunami was technically not meteorological, but geologic, even so, it seems the gods have it in for us right now. How very vulnerable we are.
There are a few articles which dare to mention 'Climate Change', also known as 'Global Warming', but warming makes no sense to those of us stuck in winter temps during most of April and May this year, just as we fevently hope for a reprieve from our already too long winters. Climate change is the result of the upsetting of natural ocean air currents which give us what we can't help but recognize as 'weather'. There are scientists being paid good money to keep up a stream of obfuscation on the issue. In the end, if you are the recipient of climactic anomalies, you will either be digging your belongings out of the rubble of your home, or wondering if you will ever be able to plant your vegetables as the summer begins on the calendar, and you are still building a woodstove fire to keep warm.
Earthquakes are probably not avoidable on any level, but nuclear power plants, especially near fault lines, are.
On a happy note, there is an awesome non-violent revolution going on in Spain right now. I just watched a youtube video of a whole crowd of people camped out in the square in the city of Valladolid. The video was set to music, the vignettes were lively and inspiring. One image I loved is of a little girl, about 5 years old. Her t-shirt said, "Para mi futuro" - "For my future".
The future looks very strange indeed, as the Boehners etc. try to pillage Social Security, as though this fund belonged to the Wall street types. If the politicians were true fiduciaries, the fund never would have been raided to pay into the National debt. Now that it has been pillaged, somehow it is fair game to be taken from the millions of us who go actually go out and get dirty working everyday.
Your humble posting writer wonders, as she gets nearer elderhood, what will be left of our social fabric when the time comes that she might need to count on the money paid in all these years by the hapless workers. However, it is not too late. It must not be, it can't be. We can all get sleeping bags and camp out in front of our government offices. Even tornadoes can't keep the people from going forward into the future with courage and the truth.
My sincere condolences to all those who have lost people and homes in this past spring's disasters. I hope you find the light within shining anyway, and the joy of working as a community again, where we find we always do need one another. Our best selves can manifest during times of intense cooperation.
As always too, during times of uncertainty, we have our practice, which reminds us of the truth, and the goodness we can carry into the world.
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