Earth's healing power
Nature reminds us that there is immense good, and great beauty in this existance.
Fireflies, sunflowers, hummingbirds, tomato vines, honey bees…..these are a few of my favorite things.
When I go to Substack and see page after page of chaos, war, sickness, political clownshows, conspiracies, and deliberate harm….it’s too easy to feel answering misery resonate deep in my soul at how messed up society has become. It seems like there is no hope.
And then, I go outside….and see my garden. Heirloom plants brimming with the weight of green, growing tomatoes; both in the planting box…and all across the yard where they have seeded themselves and are growing wild. Sunflowers and milkweed also wave in the wind, their scattered clusters standing tall and strong like little soldiers.
My pigs greet me. They wonder when they can eat again; at least a snack? Their conversational oinking always gives me a pick-me-up; these are my children.
At night, hundreds of fireflies blink in and out across the meadow and the lawns, over the driveway, and through the orchard to the woods beyond.
True, their numbers aren’t the thousands that they were when I was growing up (fifty years ago, now)….but the population is still hanging on. It helps that we are the last house on a dead end road, surrounded by eighty acres of pristine family woodland. The neighbors, with their pesticides and herbicide-coated lawns, only manage to destroy the errant flyers who stray too far from our property.
Through the woods behind me, my sister’s yard has an even bigger garden, and the honeybees from her two hives stay close to home. A large group of them like to hover around the salt-water pool for much of the day, buzzing and drinking.
Family land glows abundantly with health. Nature is strong. It is a treasure to be stewarded and protected, and appreciated.
This is how Earth reminds us that no matter how terrible things appear to be going for the societys of man……Nature endures. And it can provide a solace for all who seek it.
Stay positive, my friends.
That is a lovely scene you describe there Madam. Now go back in the house, close the blinds, turn on the television, sit down and scroll your phone form the next 14 hours. Get back into the real world, that stuff outside is for mentally ill people. Us sane folk have on our VR goggles, we have the ear buds, we have the whole "hook up." We are winning. Smelling a beautiful breeze, hearing a hummingbird buzz by your head, or seeing a beautiful flower ain't nothing. Now go, or I'm telling.