Boxing Day Blues

The hustle and bustle of Christmas day is over. I spent a wonderful day with my children and grandchildren.  My youngest son announced his engagement and I was thrilled for him and his fiance.  Then why am I so blue today.  On Boxing day I felt down all day and into the night and kept wondering why.  I had just finished reading a book called The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I am a post war baby and as I grew up I listened to stories about the war from my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Later, when I became an adult and started my own business I had clients who went through the war. I lived in Holland, but my clients lived in different parts of Europe. Their stories were not much different then the childhood stories that were the fabric of my life. The pain in their eyes were the same as what I saw in my families eyes. This book tells the same stories and I now realize that this is why I felt so depressed after reading it. Don't get me wrong, it is an excellent read and a true depiction of the live they endured. Now we have another war torn area and I would bet that these refugees have the same haunting memories that my family lived with and will have for the rest of their lives. My heart breaks for them and all the lost souls of past wars. Don't you think we should have learned from the past and don't you think that as civilized people we should do better then what we did in the past. I am not advocating a Third World War, but I am saying that we must be able to come up with a better way to help these devastated humans that walk this earth with us. I wonder how we would cope if thrust into a similar situation. Would we be strong enough, brave enough or lucky enough to survive.

Mother Earth is Angry

This fall I went to Sudbury and watched a video at the Imax theater on the disappearing icebergs in the Arctic. This was spectacular to watch, but brought home the fact that the north is melting away. We really need to get on the band wagon regarding global warming. It is a fact that the seas are rising and the earth is warming. The earth gave us everything we needed to sustain ourselves, but we disregard it like it won't matter. It will matter. We cannot go one like this. Our naive Indians knew that Mother Earth was our lifeline. They respected her and all she gave us.  We need do step up and do the same. Go take a walk in the woods and be mindful of what you see, hear and smell. Mother Earth is talking to us all the time. we need to open our senses and listen. She will always look after us if we give her the respect she deserves.