i am in need of expressing how i felt earlier today, and have been holding on to this feeling since i was a young girl.
there is something i cannot quiet put my finger on , bear with me as i process aloud.
i grew up in the 70s and pollution was ramapnt.
i rememebr being upset about the TV commercial.
i was 8 years old
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
i am almost 47 years old and i am still upset.
i love this PLanet, OUr Earth, our Mother
I love the magic of the Universe, in its chaos and beauty.
everything appears to be symbiotic.
except. us.
i can talk about all the good things we do, and the destrucitve things we do, does this fit into the order of chaos? this is a conversation for anotehr time.
what i want to express is this.
today i saw on the news feed, of a place far far far away.
a place where i often dreamt of going . may you have too.
my uncle gave me a book about the Amazon forest when i was 8 and a national geographic subscription for years...
yes.
far away lands of Mother earth and the universe readily accessible to the mind of me.
Chief Raoni, of the Kayapo, was infomred by the Presedient of Brazil, that his peoples lands will be corrupted, stolen, raped and murdered. thousands will be homeless, native species of plants and animals not "lost" (a sterile word,) realistically serially murdered.
all in the name of PROGRESS
and 11000 mega electric Monte Belo dam
a million acres of land, inhabited by indenious people, animals, trees, plants and soil.
ya feeling it.?
has it settled in?
The guardians of the forest
The Kayapó indigenous people of Brazil have an impressive record of protecting their traditional lands from invasion and deforestation. Official Kayapó territories span 11 million hectares (27.2 million acres) in the southeastern Amazon and form, by far, the largest single protected tract of tropical forest in the world. Today, indigenous lands are virtually the only barrier to the wave of deforestation and fires sweeping across the region as forests are razed for agriculture. This barrier effect occurs because indigenous people, who depend on the forest for survival, assert their land rights and actively contest frontier expansion.
The Kayapó indigenous territories in Pará and Mato Grosso states provide a striking example of the barrier to deforestation and present an extraordinary opportunity for conservation at a multi-landscape scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tz_t6HdR44&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbOTrczxAA&feature=share
i had a viseral reaction to this today.
a remebrence of seeing the indian crying when i was 8, and seeing the image today.
it all resurfaced.
all those memeories of wanting the Earth to be the Garden.
i felt fractured, blown wide open. sick. wanting to howl, weep, escape to the underground, the trees, run wild thru the woods like i was running for my life.
i wanted to ring everydoorbell, drive my car -honk my horn and scream to anyone who would listen.
i took time to my self to regroup to go to Her and Myself and listen ...
i know what i can do
i can contiune to be a Stweard and do my part.
LIVE EARTH CONSCIOUSNESS
IMPROVE MY connection w her.
improve Public awareness.
take more time to do the work
to let the leaders know this is NOT OK
what can you do? what will you do?
http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam#.ToN-ftcrH5w.facebook
prayers to the Kayapo Peoples.
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