Modern Life is Changing

Our ‘modern life’ is undergoing a change.  It has to.

The planet on which we live is changing its ways.  The voice can be clearly heard in howling winds of tornadoes, driving rainstorms and floods, the hiss of rampant wildfires, and the deep rumble of earthquakes. 

 

Resources which we have long taken for granted will one day run out.  Then what? We’ve already seen the affects of weather changes on the food supply. Drought has hit some areas while other places have drowned.

 

Government and industry leaders – each looking out for it’s own best interests – have lined their pockets, ignorant or unwilling to face responsibility OR reality.  Who cares?  It’s not their problem! Sequestered off in their own private heavens, their souls have been sold for the almighty business deal.  The greed of the dollar has won out again, trumping the needs of the people and the planet.  These people, our corporate leaders and politicians, who should be serving (we’d like to think) us are serving themselves.  The result?  A system that is breaking down…, and quickly.

 

Greed – look where it has led us.  Worldwide we find ourselves staring into the jaws of hell;  pollution, corruption, greed, economic collapse, shortages, wanton disregard for others.  “Me…, Me…, ME” has ruled for too long.

 

We will find ourselves going backwards.  It will become more evident that we have to start to do what our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents did:  relate to one another, interact with our communities.

 

As resources dwindle and prices rise, we will have to plant that garden with our neighbors; reclaim a vacant lot to feed each other.  We’ll have to get our hands dirty doing more with less electricity and wasteful practices. We’ll have to become more resourceful instead of wasteful, cutting back on frivolous things;  getting to what matters:  our family, friends, neighbors and community and the planet.

 

This is for our own sake….

 

What are you doing to promote the change that has to be, in your life, your neighborhood and for the world?

 

“When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the world will know peace.”  Jimi Hendrix

 

The new, the healthful, hopeful & the helpful

In something that I read recently, a quote from Robert Blythe from the 60’s writing; Light Around the Body:  “Time for the world to break up into small self-sufficient colonies of the new, the healthful and the hopeful.” 

The world as we know it is changing.  Our climate is in turmoil from global warming. Millions of people have been displaced by natural disasters, war, ethnic cleansing and  the fear of genocide.  Everywhere we turn the entire planet is being affected not only by high prices for every commodity, thus stretching the budgets of families worldwide but of the threat of shrinking resources.  We have for too long, taken our Earth for granted. 

We have also taken any ‘class status’, whatever it be in any culture, as a given. If we have been lucky, by an act of birth, to be in the world of the more fortunate, we can no more turn a blind eye to our poorest brother and sisters.  If we have been blessed to live in a country without violence, there is no longer any excuse to pretend that social injustice and the horrors of war does not exist. 

The time of ‘me…, me…, me’  must  come to an end. It should become, “WE” and “US”, not ‘them‘.

We need to band together to heal not only planetary wounds, but cultural, physical, mental, spiritual and economic.  The new world order needs to be not “Us versus them” but inclusive of all.

This is mandatory if we are all to survive.

To paraphrase Mr. Blythe’s quote, I’d like to add:

 “Time for the world to break up into small self-sufficient colonies of the new, the healthful, the helpful and hopeful.”