And Still She Persists

I'll bet many of us watched those old movies about the end of civilization, either due to a world war that finally went too far or a mystery illness that wiped out the planet, leaving a brave few to create a new world? I have to wonder how many of us took it seriously or just thought it was simply the latest Science Fiction gimmick? As we sit home and try to find some purpose and meaning to what has been going on in the real world, in real time, wondering what kind of a world we'll be left with when all this is over, someone else has already taken the reins. Actually, she had them all along. We were just to wrapped up in ourselves to notice.

The "She" I'm talking about is, of course, Mother Nature, and if you don't think she's been on the job since all this started, take a look at what is going on in countries around the world:

• The skies over China are becoming clear, and the air cleaner, since all of the factories are closed - now the masks they wear are for the virus, not the pollution.
• The waters of Venice are no longer filled with garbage. Now wildlife like swans and fish are swimming happily along the canals.
• All over the world the air quality is improving, trees are in bloom, the robins are back, and the earth is reclaiming its own.

All the press conferences and breast-beating of men in positions of power can't hold a candle to the wisdom and experience of Mother Nature, our Mother Earth, when it comes to knowing what to do, and stepping up to do it without thought to who gets the credit, or how to make it all work. 

There was once an amazing documentary on TV (I think it was Discovery but I could be wrong) called "Life After People." It showed what would happen to the earth if all the people were suddenly gone. What is showed is that after all the man-made atrocities self-destructed, slowly but surely the earth came back. It replanted itself, it reclaimed itself, it reintroduced all the animal species ... and it got on just fine without us. 

As we all sit indoors pondering our future, perhaps instead of trying to think ourselves out of this one, we simply look out of the window and take some notes from the one who has always had the answers if only we'd stopped long enough to notice. Einstein is famous for having said: "You can't solve problems by using the same thinking that created then." Maybe it's time we turned off the thinking and turned on the seeing. 

Rock on, Mother Nature!

And so it is.