(Cowboys in the field of our back yard in April)
Muki and I went for a walk on our favorite loop behind our house. It was another blustery spring day and I bundled up, prepared for the sleet. As we walked down the back country roads, we came upon four calves who were on the wrong side of the fence, their mother’s hovering next to them on the other side. I’m sure they thought it was cute and funny to slip through the slots of the barbed wire fence but now they couldn’t get back in.
Every now and again, Muki slips away from me and runs into the fields to herd the cows and although I am completely worried and irritated, it is amazing to watch her go. Now was the time to put her working genes to use. With her leash on we whooped and barked the calves back through the fence to meet up with their mooing mamas. I worried about stressing out the cows but we were quick and successful. 
As I soaked in the beauty of nature, I pondered the rapture. There has been a lot of strange behavior and environmental disasters going on, what with tornadoes, tsunamis and coyotes grabbing and killing dogs off of our well trod hiking trails, it sure feels like it’s not such a far departure from the truth.
What if Obama announced that scientific evidence is showing that we indeed did only have a few more months to live? How would we change the way we live each day? Would there still be fighting and killing, for after all what would be the point? Would there be hatred? less selfishness? Would we all be living more in harmony?
Forget it, I’m not waiting for that announcement, I’m going to start my own battle to turn things around and I’m starting by joining the Nature Conservancy’s efforts to save The Colorado River:
“The Colorado River is a critical source of water for human needs, sustaining 30 million people and their economies in both the US and Mexico, irrigating more than 3 million acres of farmland. Hydropower, coal-fired electricity, and oil and gas development also depend on the river.
Colorado is under pressure from an increasing population, growing water demands, expanding development and climate change. The decisions we make now will impact our precious lands and waters forever.
Our vision for conservation requires us to accelerate the pace and scale of our work to safeguard Colorado’s grasslands, forests, western rangelands and the rivers that lace them together. By working with others and employing new tools and methodologies, we can help put our state on a path to a sustainable future.”
What are your thoughts? Talk to us and share your ideas on how to be proactive!
BLONDIE’S RAPTURE
Toe to toe
Dancing very close
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotised
And they’re stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture
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Yes, rivers are the lace it all together.
Pebble Mine
Growing up we used to throw pebbles
over power lines.
Rotation of shoulder, whip of forearm.
Our laughter scattering into the grass.
Laboring through the heat of rules
without rules, some of us took aim
at magpies and windows.
Then staring down at our dirty socks
we would ask forgiveness
for the windows.
Ahhh Cam, sooo beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing.
Those of us who grew up in the rural West feel heart-sick at the loss of all the open space and mindless expansion. We know that the natural resources like water are so critical to our very survival – and to the wellness of the planet at large.
I was at a conference this weekend and the one question being asked of everyone was, “What would you do, how would you live if you only had six more months?” It was a question that made me think more about my own values and what it most important to me, which, of course, it was designed to do.
Everywhere on this planet, people are deeply feeling the change that is happening so quickly. We are all being asked to define what is MOST important to us as individuals – and then to step up to those personal values.
For me, it is my family and my message of hope and healing to the world. I have re-dedicated my personal journey here to support and uplift others; to help them free themselves of their unwanted emotional baggage and live free and true to themselves.
Sounds like that is what you’ve chosen, too, Jillian! My heart is filled with appreciation for your choice to live whole and free. In doing so, you also model that for your children and the rest of humanity. Job well done, my friend!
~Michelle
Hi Jillian! YES! Do it! We all need to find “that thing” to try to preserve and protect. It’s been way too many decades of trashing Mother Earth and taking everything for granted – like we’ll never run out of anything, it’ll always be as it always has been. Wrong-o, buck-o. Too much totally unconscious living is taking it’s toll. And you know me, the unconcious EATING we have done is also taking its toll on our collective health – which as a country is damn pathetic!
What a wonderful example your proactive measures will be for your boys! YAY you!
hugs
suZen
suzen´s last [type] ..Zumba Into Fit & Trim or Die Trying!
Hayden and I were watching the Volcano erupting this morning and the tornado wiping out a town and I was thinking, the world is getting back at us for all the destruction we have caused.
We have to repair the damage we have caused.
As for Muki, I always thing how the coyotes tried to lure her into the woods. I am sure she amused the cows!
Love you
melanie