Snowy Sunday

It's a quiet day here. The snow has progressed from barely visible, to lazy Christmas-y snow, to some serious lake effect snow carried on the winds. Lady Sage and Smudge the Cat have been cozied and curled up most of the morning.. Despite the fact that they are well taken care of pets, biologically they return to the habits of their wild ancestors always.... They start eating more in August to sustain themselves over the Winter and when they sense bad weather they hunker down in whatever "den" they find suitable in the little house we share. 


It seems to me that the more inventions that come along to make our lives easier the more we leave our genetic habituations behind... And the more we leave those things behind, the less human we've become. There are many I have seen who have become so addicted to these inventions that they really think little of all others except to cast blame when things don't go their way. Whether it's our Earth Mother, her beings, or any other facet of her, unless it's something they have to deal with directly... nothing matters to them. So sad. We are a cell in the great being of our planet and the even greater infinity of things off planet from us. They don't understand that in ignoring the ills of our societies and Earth is much like simply ignoring a cancerous part of our bodies... The ailing parts are still there and, for the most part, will continue to grow unchecked without some caring and tending and empathy by all.


Books..."Silent Spring","Fahrenheit 451", "War and Peace", "Dr. Zhivago", or even "Soylent Green". Do people even read these anymore? And, if they do, is there any little bit of comprehension or correlation to today? Of course, there are thousands of other books, other words, other teachings of benefit to Earth's varied and many societies... Different ways of saying some of the same things in ways that the variety of people might understand. But how can so many even be reached when they are stuck in their egoic quests for stuff, more stuff, and the variety of truly unhealthy "entertainment" available to them?


Time to do the mundane and be nurtured by it... Pay the bills, close up the air conditioner (which should have been done two months ago!), and make the Christmas card and gift lists. Let the music in the background make peaceful my little bit of the world today.... And snuggle the critters when they choose to share time out of their little mini hibernations.