Only kindness ties your shoes . . .
It's Freya's day . . . a sunny dawn. A cloudy weekend forecast for TulseyTown . . .
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. – Alan Watts
Four more days 'til Earth Day and today in 1882, Charles Darwin died at the age of 72 in Kent, England.
We think we have understood everything. But we have not. We have used everything. By “developing” the planet, we have been reducing Earth to a new type of barrenness. Scientists are telling us that we are in the midst of the sixth extinction period in Earth’s history. No such extinction of living forms has occurred since the extinction of the dinosaurs some sixty-five million years ago. . .To wantonly destroy a living species is to silence forever a divine voice. – Thomas Berry for The Center for Action and Contemplation.
The illusions we used to build the present global warming dilemma and the delusions of denial around it are contributing to the development of a mass psychosis which confounds solutions.
We must first encounter the sacred in the concrete and kneel before it there, because we can’t start with the universal. Poets are masters of the concrete. – Richard Rohr, Meditations, CAC, 4/19/24
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things
… Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
… only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
– Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness” in Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, The Eighth Mountain Press, 1994.