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by Christine Maccabee
in the gut, people are waking up. At sight so long as we continue to live
least, that is every caring person’s our consumeristic lives to the hilt as
though there is no tomorrow. Some
hope. As our worlds intersect
On The Wild Side and consciousness grows, better day there may be no tomorrow. Just
sayin’.
solutions are giving birth as well.
A very wise man long ago
One case in point would be the solar
and wind industries, the expansion warned us not to heap treasures up
of which will play a huge part in on earth. But we went ahead and
the transition we direly need away did it, anyway. Living simply, with
less, and closer to the web of the
from life-killing technologies, which
We Are All Connected have been—and still are—polluting earth, recognizing our place in it
as well as the importance of other
and damaging essential natural
ecosystems. entities besides the human being,
“It’s a small world, after all.” Our earth is one huge network are the first steps we must all take in
of interconnections. The melting of order to turn this immense problem
the Arctic icecap and Greenland’s around. Then, of course, the next
At a very young age, children still is, not to forget the war faring icy protection is already affecting step is to be better stewards of the
have a connection with the natural nature of other countries. The the Gulf Stream, which is creating earth’s resources and to problem
world in ways we, as adults, trauma of war is very real in all a much colder Europe. Just this solve.
sometimes forget, perhaps never our lives. We feel it, even if we are winter, it made the water so cold We are all war weary. We
learned, or no longer have time for. not personally engaged. No one is that beaches in North Wales, are all traumatized. We are all
The magic of tiny butterflies in a exempt from the so called “toxic England, are witnessing miles and interconnected in this very small
grandmother’s flower garden can stress” created by our warriors miles of dead starfish and other world that we once thought was so
touch the heart of the youngest of coming home crippled, be it small aquatic creatures, which huge. I wish you all well on your
children, as it did mine, and the physically or mentally, or both. We depend on the Gulf Stream warmth. journeys through these wild and
memory remains with me to this read it in the news, in books, and A recent photo of these beaches difficult times.
day. My world was very limited hear it on the TV. And now, yes, the sent chills up my spine. Yes, dear My apologies for such a wild
then—small you might say—and yet war is continuing here at home in friends, climate disruption is real, essay, but I do tend to be a bit “On
so very large with wonder. our cities and schools. So, is it any and I believe there is no answer in The Wild Side.”
As we grow older and learn surprise that in our country, we are
just how large the earth is, and experiencing more deaths due to
our understanding of the world drug overdoses, mass shootings, and
expands, hopefully so does our suicides? No surprise at all, in my
empathy, our feeling of connection. mind, though very sad.
If we are fortunate enough to study Another more subtle type of
the science of ecology in depth, we war is being conducted against our
begin to understand what the Native precious planet, which is indeed
Americans called the “web of life.” our mother. Mothers provide the
We begin to feel the connections sustenance and caring needed for a
all living creatures have with one child to grow, and, of course, fathers
another, including ourselves. We also provide protection and nurture
begin to see how our behaviors and as well. But, not always. Broken
activities as human beings impact families are a symptom of something
the natural world, in large and gone very wrong. The same can
small ways. Yes, we even begin to be said about political strife and
see that it is really not such a large ecological damage, created by both
world after all, but rather a small war and consumerism. We want to
world, where absolutely everything provide and protect our own, but FREE ADMISSION
affects everything else. Consider the at what cost? It seems the world is
butterfly effect. getting smaller all the time.
We are all touched one way However, as these various
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or another by the many wars our symptoms of greed and dysfunction
country has been engaged in, and come out of hiding, hitting us hard
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