I often feel “stopped” from within
Because of a belief that I don’t know enough
But what if it’s okay that I know what I know, and that more will be revealed in time, and that
Perhaps most importantly
It’s not for me to know or understand everything
I woke up this morning with the beginning lyrics from the song “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie
And thinking about the mind, and minds, and
Well, this land.
What if…
In the places where there is an abundant boatload of sunshine
(Hello, Southwest)
Solar was the means to harness energy…
In the places where there are many winds
(Hello, Midwest, hello, Southwest)
And
In the places where there are often boatloads of snow & rain
(Hello, Northeast, Midwest, Northwest)
That these continual, changing weathers and resources could be shared among all
And doing so in a way that would least harm or disrupt critters & wild places
Solar in the sunny places (on already existing rooftops so as not to disrupt wild places)
Wind turbines in the windy places (low enough so as not to disrupt the air beings)
Drains & Cisterns & pipe lines for places with abundant rains, snow, floods (pipe water instead of gas!! & maybe the heavily used rivers & aquifers will replenish themselves)
O I can hear the naysayers in my mind
O they are vicious and cruel
“What do you know?”
“You have no @$&;ing idea how to do that”
Etc.
But here’s the deal
Someone, as I write this
Is FLYING
In a plane above my head
And
there is light where I am even though it’s dark outside
So I may not know how
I don’t have the mind of an engineer
I wish I did
But I don’t
And that’s okay
I believe in shared mind, or connecting minds
I have a mind that sees connections & knows it’s possible to do something
For real, like, it can actually happen.
Even if I don’t know the engineering part.
There are brilliant minds all over the planet
Ones that actually see the connections, see what can be done, know how to do it.
And maybe “what ifs…” are not enough
But maybe it is?
A start or a spark?
If this little pea brain can catch the idea, then some brilliant minds can see the way how
If people fly all the time, then it’s possible to share the renewable resources that are all around us
To stop producing things which don’t break down (um, plastic, styrofoam, etc.)
Work (or if you prefer the word “jobs”) to create it, work to sustain & maintain it, and all the while in causing as little harm as possible to the land & critters who we share this place with
Work with the young
Work with the old
And a quote from William Douglas Horden
“We benefit from what our environment produces; our environment must benefit from what we produce”
