The Earth around us has suffered profoundly this summer from heat, smoke, drought, and the diminishment of pollinators and water life. At times we have felt more like hospice caregivers than gardeners.
Sustaining hope transmuted, as it does with dying, into a kind of dedicated openness to silence, listening, presence, and choosing compassionate actions over those that artificially keep life ticking when it wants to depart beyond struggle.
But if these are our Earth’s agonal breaths, then like all the dying I’ve been graced to witness, tend, and travel beside until the final release, she continues to amaze us with her beauty, her mystery, and her secrets about living that only the dying can send percolating through our bones, our hearts, and possibly our actions.
If we listen and contemplate, we may yet midwife wisdom. Her final gifts. She continues to amaze.
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