Planet Earth

We can blame ourselves for the mud slides in Chiapas and Guatemala. Deforestation and global warming, right? And the Gulf flood on destruction of wetlands and substandard construction of the levies and building cities below sea level.... Oh yea and global warming, right? But the earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan and India slams us into what we hate to acknowledge.... our total helplessness. The Earth is a ball of elements in constant turmoil. We living things are no more than accidental parasites, a by-product of random chemical events in the last few billion years. We found a niche for a while, but the Earth could do away with that in a matter of minutes. So hey, why worry. Well, 20,000 miracles of delicate and infinite complexity stopped being in a couple of heart beats. We will start to mend and await the next disaster.

Saw the Wallace and Gromet movie today. I am so grateful for clever absurdity!