WWND

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

Ryunosuke Satoro

Protesters in the streets crash, recede and crash again against the shoreline of the status quo. Like the ocean waves, the movement is unstoppable, rhythmical, and driven by the power and a fierce, collective desire for change.

WWND…what would nature do?

I look to the Earth for guidance in navigating the critical issues of racism, environmental injustice, and climate change.

“Earth sustains our life with its weave of infinite relationships of mutual dependency between all life-forms and the elements that sustain them,” says Susan Murphy Roshi (Spiritual Ecology, The Cry of the Earth). The Earth works with cooperation, respect and trust for all of creation. Each cell of each living thing is an integral part of the whole. How far we humans have moved from this truth!

We are experiencing a wave of change throughout our country and world. Like the persistent ocean swells, these social movements breakdown and reshape the jagged rocks of inequality. The tides of diversity rush in to crest the rock barrier and burst into a spray of a thousand droplets before falling back into the great body of water once again.

Nature perseveres and harnesses the energy of change. Nature teaches us to release all that no longer serves so we can allow a new reality to enter in. The natural world calls us to uplift society; to co-exist with equality, education and opportunity for all of life…calls us to stay on this path during these difficult times.