Out of Time

The rush of life.  We pack our lives with action: ‘action is life’.  What an illusion!  The transition from the natural rhythm of time to clock-time was a big step.  It is there that we have disconnected from our roots and started running.  And still we run: off to work, to school, back home, to the shop, to the fitness, chasing happiness…  We overuse our life energy by not aligning to the natural rhythms of days, seasons and years. No, we rather keep close on our clocks just so as not the miss the rat race. No wonder our minds whirl, avoiding silence.  Because silence is the absence of action, and that…. smells of laziness, is not productive, does not yield results.  Silence is even starting to belong to the domains of psychotherapy. “The healthy influence of two minutes of silence,” I heard it earlier today on the radio.  John Cage already knew, of course. When will we?

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Killer

Our bees, basis to our agrarian culture, without whom no flower gets pollinated, die ... How can we possibly just let this happen?  Already there are areas in the world where human hands need to pollinate blossoming fruit trees using feathers, flower by flower, because all insects have disappeared. This is not a joke.

And where voices are raised to use more vegetarian alternatives for food, in order to reduce the environmental pollution and methane emission produced by the cattle industry, that plan can then also be parked.  Should we go for the 100% synthetic menu instead?

That the bee would be on the list of fauna threatened with extinction is something no one has ever conceived until now. Just one small animal, no?  Now they die in masses, thanks to our wonderful chemical industry who has found a market in the poisoning of long-time delicious nectar-producing plants.  The bee is the ‘indicator’ to the state of health of Nature. A different approach is very, very urgently needed – we cannot just let this pass and remain unmoved.

Imagine: this is of the same level as killing all the men and women in the world…

Dead planet.

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