Sunday Musings – March 8, 2020
Today I will dance
Today promises to be a spring like day here in Wheeling, WV. Today I will dance.
Yesterday, I attended a lecture by the entomologist Dr. Ryan Gott at Phipps conservatory. His talk was entitled “Healthy Plants for a Healthy World”. Dr. Gott is Associate Director of Integrated pest management at Phipps. As a member of the Phipps team he is interested not just in insects, plants, the soil, and the weather which live in harmony with each other, but also in all parts which are invasive and not able to help maintain a healthy, normal balance. One could imagine him standing in Phipps or in the back yard of his new home in Pittsburgh allowing all parts of nature to speak to him about how to design the landscape of his yard in a way which honors that particular area but which will affect a much wider area of land and space.
Today as I greet this day I am acutely aware of all the suffering of the world; of all the ways we live in disharmony with the earth and each other. I am reminded of war and all manner of violence. I am also reminded of such invasive diseases as the coronavirus and how many people are directly and indirectly affected by them. I am reminded of the ongoing opioid and other drug addiction which continues to affect many individuals and families. I am reminded of all who grieve the loss of loved ones and the dreams they shared. I am reminded of all the ways I attempt to work against and not with mother nature.
I am also reminded on this Sunday that it is a time to reclaim our dance with each other and mother earth; a time to reconnect with the best within us which “knows” that we would do well to remember that each action or inaction of ours affects the entire universe; that each action embraces and joins hands with each part of the universe or like a bomb spreads out in concentric circles destroying all that it touches.
Today on this spring like day I will remember I have a choice to choreograph an oppositional defiant juvenile dance or I can relax and join the dance to which nature invites me. This dance will continue to bring the full range of human emotions including delight, grief and all those between these two extremes. Today I will accept the invitation of Dr. Gott and embrace the life dance which nature choreographs.
Written March 8, 2020
Jimmy F Pickett
coachpickett.org
Today I will dance
Today promises to be a spring like day here in Wheeling, WV. Today I will dance.
Yesterday, I attended a lecture by the entomologist Dr. Ryan Gott at Phipps conservatory. His talk was entitled “Healthy Plants for a Healthy World”. Dr. Gott is Associate Director of Integrated pest management at Phipps. As a member of the Phipps team he is interested not just in insects, plants, the soil, and the weather which live in harmony with each other, but also in all parts which are invasive and not able to help maintain a healthy, normal balance. One could imagine him standing in Phipps or in the back yard of his new home in Pittsburgh allowing all parts of nature to speak to him about how to design the landscape of his yard in a way which honors that particular area but which will affect a much wider area of land and space.
Today as I greet this day I am acutely aware of all the suffering of the world; of all the ways we live in disharmony with the earth and each other. I am reminded of war and all manner of violence. I am also reminded of such invasive diseases as the coronavirus and how many people are directly and indirectly affected by them. I am reminded of the ongoing opioid and other drug addiction which continues to affect many individuals and families. I am reminded of all who grieve the loss of loved ones and the dreams they shared. I am reminded of all the ways I attempt to work against and not with mother nature.
I am also reminded on this Sunday that it is a time to reclaim our dance with each other and mother earth; a time to reconnect with the best within us which “knows” that we would do well to remember that each action or inaction of ours affects the entire universe; that each action embraces and joins hands with each part of the universe or like a bomb spreads out in concentric circles destroying all that it touches.
Today on this spring like day I will remember I have a choice to choreograph an oppositional defiant juvenile dance or I can relax and join the dance to which nature invites me. This dance will continue to bring the full range of human emotions including delight, grief and all those between these two extremes. Today I will accept the invitation of Dr. Gott and embrace the life dance which nature choreographs.
Written March 8, 2020
Jimmy F Pickett
coachpickett.org
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