LOOK FOR AWAKENING

It is cool [66.3F] and muggy. All Summer we have had waves of humid air coming up from the South. It is the first Summer, I remember, without any [or very few] hot dry days. Every time it warms up, the humidity sky rockets. It has been drier, when it is cool like it is today, apparently, the dry air has yet to move in from the West. Well, I take every day as it comes to me, they are all great.

We had a great Labor Day celebration! Naomi, Greg, Adam and Elijah came over and we had a wonderful dinner of home raised, roasted chicken with wild rice and an excellent garden salad. The gravy was exceptional. Yesterday, our neighbor from across the lake, visited us and we harangued about the collapsing world for three hours.

Then we went to visit a feed store to see if they carried organically grown chicken feed, or at least, feed made from non-GMO grain. They did have organic feed, it was expensive, but when we are raising chickens for our own consumption, do we want feed that may be genetically modified and sprayed with Round-Up?

We are discovering more and more people, in our community, who are wary of the chemicals used in agriculture. It appears to, becoming main stream, to doubt the direction agriculture is going. We know farmers who won't use Round-Up or GMO seeds. People are waking up. It appears more and more likely that the chemicals in our food, water and air are the cause, or contribute to the cause, of many myriad physical ailments.

Farmers are trapped in an economic situation that requires them to use practices, that they may not personally agree with, in order to survive. I think doctors and farmers are the two professions, which are most victimized, by our chemical industry. The cultures, of both medicine and agriculture, punish those, who think for themselves and see the 'emperor has no clothes'.

But everybody, in all walks of life, are waking up. We are seeing how all technology, and supposed progress, has been used to make money for a small group, at the expense of the rest. Why would we want to live in a world where some need to toil why others live off their labor? Why would we want to live in a world where people go hungry? Why would we want to live in a world where the health care industry, is more interested in profit, than healing? We could go on and on with questions like this, but then, it becomes a diatribe. We all get the point.

Fortunately, this old World, based on greed, exploitation, and love of power, is crumbling. I think those of us who are beginning to 'see' need to think of strategies to help and heal the populace. Of course, getting our own act together, is the most important thing. The more we can give up judgement, of self and others, the greater will be our own influence in helping others 'see'. We don't know the immensity of help, we are to others, by simply loving ourselves. When we love ourselves we beam out love to everyone. At this point, we don't see how helpful this is.

Yet, I get eager to see some form of learning/healing centers emerge. Well, I talked about this before. It will happen when it is time. Let us dream of a world created by love. A world where all are happy and free. A world where all are free to create. It is so simple, we just need to love each other.

So many things, that are simple, are not easy. To love another we have to love ourselves- first. To love ourselves, we need to give up a lifetime of negative learning. We are doing it. Learning/healing centers would help.

Love and Peace, Gregg