I like to listen to interesting and informative podcasts while working sometimes. Recently, I listened to the Stuff You Should Know podcast on Ghost Fishing (http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/ghost-fishing.htm) and found myself, yet again, repulsed by the ego of humankind. Continue reading “Ghost Fishing and the Oiligarchy”
Category: Wildlife
Today We Honor the Mosquito
Honor the mosquito?!?!?! What?!?!?! Am I crazy?!?!?! These are the questions I awoke with after my guides directed me to blog in honor of the mosquito today. So I meditated on the mosquito before rising. I could feel their need to be heard. So much is blamed on them. So much hatred is directed toward them. There is something quite profound in the fact that it is only the females who bite to draw blood. How can we truly be in relationship with the WHOLE if we are bent upon eradicating one of the species?
Flowers in the Weeds
While pulling weeds in my strawberry patch today, I was yet again reminded that it was my Mother who taught me to be able to see the beautiful flowers in and amongst the weeds. When I was a child, like many youngsters growing up, one of the chores I would be given to do was to pull the weeds in the flower, rock and/or food gardens. I hated this chore. Didn’t we all?!?! I learned to recognize weeds and I learned that one can fall on their butt if they pull too hard on a well established weed. I also learned how to identify the plants we wanted to thrive for our own purposes.
Where have all the antelope gone?
Several years ago, as we watched a small herd of mama antelope with their babies playing in our back pasture, I had a friend pensively ask why she no longer had antelope at her place. They have 40 acres SE of Denver and used to see them all the time. I asked if more fences had gone in around her. She said yes, but she still got plenty of deer. She wondered why the antelope disappeared. I told her that it’s the fencing.
Antelope are not prone to jumping like deer do. Will they jump? Yes. Will they choose to move out of an area if their only option for migration and daily movement is to jump fences? YES. Continue reading “Where have all the antelope gone?”