Today is May Day--a time for maypoles and celebration, for it is a Holy Day--a day to celebrate the Heiros Gamos--the Sacred Marriage of God and Goddess. This is truly the beginning of Summer, and the time of growing things that begin to produce fruit.
The union of the Lord and the Lady symbolize the interaction of forces in procreation, in the pollenation of flowers, the love of bees and insects for the plants they visit, the love of life that begets life.
We humans tend to forget we are part of the web of life that supports us, that cradles and feeds us. We forget that harm done to part of the web, harms us as well. It behooves us not to be in domination over creation, but to be in partnership with it. To walk with the natural world, to respect and love every leaf, every stone, every drop of rain...that should be our goal.
Can we learn that lesson fast enough to avoid extinction?
Q.
The Teeth that Bite
"What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the soul to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it." ~~Ursula K. LeGuin
Town Called Dobson
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