tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post4923024715363600543..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life!Gail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-8221670547066778902010-07-01T02:29:42.127-04:002010-07-01T02:29:42.127-04:00Hi there, thanks for linking to our blog/community...Hi there, thanks for linking to our blog/community project, we've been getting more visitors than usual! As an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, I have a hard time accepting that "our planet is dying". Like in all things, death contains within it new life. Homo sapien is the catalyst for a monumental new wave of evolution. It isn't the first, or the last time our planet has undergone this level of extinction or climate change. After all, it was a boiling ball of fire and gas for its first billion years. We humans are but a blip (poorly adapted aberration?) in the big scheme of things. A tragedy to witness all the same, the unfathonable suffering resulting from such sudden change, but hubris to think that we have the power to "destroy" the planet. Still, I mourn with these pages.....<br />I'll pay more attention, but here in Colorado I haven't noticed the kind of plant damage you're documenting. North and south of us I do see enormous die-off from pine beetles. Everywhere you go (except here) there are huge swatches of dead and dieing trees, entire forests even. Our air quality is exceptional here in the San Luis Valley. Could explain why the die-off hasn't effected us. We still have healthy diverse populations of reptiles and amphibs that have disappeared in so many other places. There the one's I watch because they're skin is so absorbent. Cause and effect is not always so easy to discern but the sense that something is wrong is everywhere.....Ceal Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13833550835748718168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-66885595965131900052010-06-25T16:41:17.072-04:002010-06-25T16:41:17.072-04:00I've long considered myself a tiny speck of th...I've long considered myself a tiny speck of the consciousness in a vast sea of energy and matter that is the universe and is conscious. What I see and experience is the reflection of the universe looking back at me.<br /><br />Always look on the bright side of life.<br />Or to paraphrase the Tralfalmadorians in Slaughterhouse Five:<br /><br />Concentrate on the good and forget about the bad.<br /><br />(They had blown up their home planet of Tralfamador in a rocket fuel experiment. It was Rocket 88 fuel that got us.)<br /><br />We might be destroying the Earth eleventeen different ways, but flowers still bloom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com