Art by Josephine Wall
Mother Earth.
The Blue Planet.
Home to 7 Billion Humans. 8 Billion Wild Species.
Where rivers carve through rising mountains.
With a sun that sets on dazzling oceans with salty breezes.
Colors change, bushes bloom, food grows on trees.
The Earth is a living system.
Just like one small single celled organism thrives off all its working parts,
planet Earth thrives off each snowstorm, each school of fish and every herb that grows from the crust.
This planet is so in tune with it's own processes that one coyote cannot make a kill with out an earthworm feeling the impact. A man cannot pick a flower with out spoiling a spider's breakfast.
And so on.
You see, we are all interwoven every day.
Like one giant organism that we call: Gaia.
Gaia is the organism. She is the mother. She is the goddess.
She was made by the spirit of the universe. Just like us.
It's in the breeze. In the sun's golden light. In the arms of a loved one.
You can hear it in music. Taste it in food. Feel it in laughter.
The spirit is all around us. Like star dust.
And yet,
She is under siege.
By her own creations.
Those 7 billion humans.
Dominating the land and sea.
Carbon fills her hydrosphere.
She is having trouble breathing.
She thrashes for help and Tsunamis tear down islands.
Her skin is dry and as she scratches she sets fire to forests that were once stolen from her.
She watches her sea creatures shatter under waves as she tries desperately to clean her oceans.
She will never quit.
She will never die.
She is the most resilient kind in this universe.
...And she believes in us.
We can find compassion for her.
We can give thanks to her, rise her up.
We can cherish this worldly magic and celebrate.
We can live every day to be closer to her.
We can live every day to save her.
And you know what?
Momma Gaia can be very forgiving.
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