Tuesday, October 7, 2008

To Call Us Pigs Would Insult The Animal


Some days I come home from my walk with a bouquet of what is blooming in the woods and fields and a heart grateful for the purples, the yellows, the greens. I put the things in vases and set them where I will see them fifty times a day and smile every time.

Some days I come home with bags of candy wrappers, styrofoam plates and cups, glass bottles and aluminum cans. My hands reek of stale beer on those days and my heart is full of disgust. I wash my hands and think, My God. Aren't things bad enough? Why do we humans have to fuck up everything, leaving our hateful mark on every path we take? Are we so incredibly arrogant that we think we have the right to despoil any piece of woods, any place at all?

Some days I have no hope.
Some days I can not smile.

7 comments:

  1. You probably don't want to hear about my intentions to start littering and smoking cigarettes if Obama/Biden loses the election.

    I figure what will be the point in trying.

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  2. Fine with me, Jauncho. Just please don't litter on my little Main St. I can't keep up with it as it is.
    Actually, if Obama/Biden doesn't win, I won't care because I'll be living in another country.

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  3. I know those feelings. Some days you feel like the world is heading in the right direction then other days you feel like all hope is lost. I guess that is why I drink myself stupid. Just kidding. But sometimes it makes my heart ache thinking about all the tragedy us humans have caused.

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  4. I believe that as a group, as a whole and a collective human beings are good. Better than good we are a driving force for change in the right direction.

    Sadly however there are always a few who spoil the harmony of what could be. However these few (for want of a better expression) genetic dead ends are usually much more noticeable. So whilst you wander your own patch quietly making a difference the even fewer loud ones make the ugly noticeable.

    I have hope for this species and I have believe that people can be better. Other wise we have nothing.

    Fat Lad

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  5. On the flip side, today I was at the market and everyone in line - five or six people - had brought those re-usable cloth bags to bag their groceries instead of using plastic of paper. I thought that was encouraging!

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  6. As Mark Twain said, "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."

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  7. Yeah, it's only taken us about twenty years to get that cloth bag idea going. But I'm glad it finally is. I like that quote, Seda.
    Fat Lad- you're a good man.

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