This is a love letter to the world. Earth is our amazing home.
Although I’m writing a trilogy involving another planet, and I’m reading Aurora Rising (Aurora Cycle_01) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, and I watch Babylon 5’s adventures, I doubt if the vast distances between stars will ever be breached by humans. Unmanned vehicles, yes.
Walking Sophie this morning, we passed a bush humming with bees. We witnessed a hummingbird hovering beside a trumpet vine blossom. We enjoyed the morning’s cool breezes.
Nature has established, over and over, balance between all its life forms. Over and over, that balance has been disrupted, but always a new balance evolves to shape a new inter-species survival plan.
We need an inter-species survival plan right now. Humans have caused this current imbalance. We’ve seized on so much more than was necessary to live full lives. We’ve destroyed habitats and deprived other humans and other species of equal space.
Healing is possible. But we’ll have to unite behind the need to heal, if we are to have a share in the end result.
Healing takes time. It’s been two full months since Sophie tore her ACLs. She is so much bouncier now. She still welcomes walks using the sling, but with it (between lie-downs in the grass) she actually bounces and runs a few steps. She loves the cool green underfoot at the park.
Sophie and I also passed a dying dove at the edge of the road. Her eyes were open, but only her head moved at our passing.
What is life?
When does life end?
Is a planet alive? A star?
A large star collapses into a black hole.
Is a black hole alive?
My latest Scientific American issue mentions the possibility of blackholes forming temporary wormholes to other black holes, indicating that information might pass between.
Can information be a sign of aliveness?
I’d hate to have “information” of our tenure on Earth be evidenced only by the destruction we’ve wrought.
Gardening News
I discovered my tomato sprouts are being eaten. It took me a while to locate two small tomato worms. Sorry, world. I destroyed the worms, rather than their habitat.
Kate Harrington 