To Serve and Protect

How can you look at this scene and not catch your breath, and feel yourself soaring off into space like a falcon, seeing it from miles high?? . Here is my temple, my most Sacred places in the world, these mountains the world over. Mountains are about as Grand as it gets aren't they? They are the Oldest Ones - the true elders of the race of Life on this planet. The first ones. We need to not only Appreciate these irreplaceable Wonders we are so blessed to be living in the same World with - they are so far beyond us in majesty and in consciousness - Imagine what a mountain like this one Knows... Shows you where your place, all our place, really is. It makes me crazy to think that some folks thought it would be OK to carve up a mountain like Mount Rushmore ( I'm ashamed to say I don't know it's proper name given to the People who lived with it). What hubris. We're just what makes the compost so these mountains can be dressed in such glory... I can't help but feel humbled by this beauty. We must see to their Survival.

To see that at the very least we do

Not Destroy One More Blessed Acre...

If We dont' do it.... Who will?

If We don't do it Now.... When will we??

These warriors have a pretty clear idea of what you sometimes have to do to protect the earth. I may not choose to carry a gun, but I feel my own version of this energy in my defense of the earth, and in my strong desire to protect what can be protected. As I’ve mentioned I co-own some land which has been dedicated as a Sanctuary by us as one small piece of the earth where we have a chance to let it just Be the way it wants to be. Of all the 40- acre parcels (as they call them) around us, we’re the only one that hasn’t been recently logged - ours was logged in 1980, 4 years before we bought it. I’ve personally watched as these other parts of the mountain have been logged, crying alternating with fury that they could cut down the forest so casually. I can get pretty worked up about it. I seriously considered some monkey-wrenching but I would have been too easy a target. It taught me to focus on what I Could protect, but I still get upset thinking about it all. So the words below are words I need to remember.

Deena Metzger wrote:

"There are those

who want to Set Fire to the World,

We Are Endangered.

There is Time only to Work Slowly,

there is No Time Not to Love".

Being gentle with ourselves is a hard thing when we're so driven to stop the fires. It seems like things are spiraling out of our control - and guess what - they always have been and always will be! Chaos Theory seems so Obvious doesn't it when you just slow down and let yourself Be in it? Let the boundaries and the patterns that shape our realities shift as they will, knowing that the patterns return and return,

knowing you can count on that.

So, hey - chill...fight the fires,

but do it with Love in your Heart.