A lesson I learned from my neighbor
Something I have learned and relearned, and have to remind myself of...I cannot beat out Mother Nature or the Universe. It has nothing to do with nuturing. This is our basic focus of life and living. For example, I found a dragon fly with a broken wing on my deck yesterday. I spent hours trying to figure out how to repair the wing so the dragon fly could survive. In the background the TV is on all about the animals being frozen in the oil spil in the Gulf. So, my neighbor comes home and we are chatting. I told him what I was doing. He asked me why I thought I could win and salvage the insect? I looked at him puzzled. I really had no idea of where he was going with this. He told me it is the circle of life. He told me to let the insect go, to toss it over into the grass. A garden snake or another insect will eat the dragon fly. It is a matter of survival for animals. I cannot stop living or life and how nature is. I can just screw it up - just like what is going on in the Gulf.
Andrew
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