Environmental events this summer - especially widespread drought, destructive wildfires, and increased evidence of climate change - provide important opportunities for us to take our eyes off our narrow anthill lives and focus on the wider picture. This is a time to ask ourselves: what transitions are we going through as a nation and as a world? Are our priorities where they should be? Are we making time for meditation, reflection and journaling about this larger picture? Is our sense of unnamed grief and depression merely our own, or is it a participation in a larger emotion - a sort of divine labor pain that is occurring across the planet? It is a good time to be making these sorts of reflections.
Photo: High Park Fire, Poudre Canyon, CO; July 13, 2012
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