The Sky Is Falling

I sit in the quiet and  stillness of my apartment.  I glance out the window. I write.

It’s a sentimental and cold morning. On the other side of the window,  on my  deck are the dregs of the recent snow storms that had continued to pile and pile on top of one another over the course of several  weeks, until the banks were so high, I could have been buried up to my neck. The pollution of New York City has turned what is left of the snow disgusting and black. 

I notice that the sky is blue and pink and cloudy.  A squirrel has just dashed by my window.  The wind is hallowing. It's echoing sound is like that of an old man in pain. The wind chimes ring in response to this force of Nature. The music is lovely.

I glance out the window again. The sky is low, causing  me to wonder if its falling?

I'm wondering now if people have heard that the Earth has moved to another place in the universe causing North and South poles to have moved to other locations as well? Or if anyone out there is aware there are now thirteen houses in the Zodiac rather than twelve? Now I am a Virgo -- the humanitarian, rather then a Libra always needing to keep things in balance.  No wonder I've been feeling off balanced lately. 

Often I wonder if what's  happened to Planet Earth --the repositioning of its axis, etc.  has something to do with  the  natural disasters that are occurring and people's uprising all over the world?  That every day is a replay of yesterday's news, and My Yemen is Your Ohio.

As an aside, am I the only one who has noticed  that time has collapsed -- as it seems that last Wednesday was only yesterday and in a blink of the eye its Monday morning again?

I think  perhaps that what's going on right now might be a  precursor to 2012, the year the world is predicted to end.  I question this theory though, that in December of next year, the world will just stop spinning and we can all get off? Are  we all going to just slide off the edge and die of something? And then of course should this prediction come to pass  only a chosen few will ascend to heaven, and the rest of us will go to hell. Well just wait a minute here, lLet's take a moment and  a good look at the hell that's right here on earth right now will ya? And is there any possibility that you or I might have something to do with the mess we often watchon television from the comfort of our homes? Hm mm

As Marvin Gaye once sang, what's going on?, I watch  the news on tee vee and  The other night after I was blue in the face from Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper's reports, I  clicked over to the Current TV Channel, which Al Gore help found in the 90's. I saw a documentary about grade school children in India. They wore uniforms -- the boys had on neck ties and dark blue blazers, which made them look like little men. They all spoke very well -- in Indian accented English  of course, since at one time in World History the British owned most countries in the world including India and its people, and therefore.... 

So one of the students talked to the camera. I leaned from her about the Green Revolution she and her peers have organized to save the planet.  She is 11 or 12 years old. Ancient in her way of being. An old soul as we say.  I learned that these kids had a protest march with signs and placards, and chants and their own version of “We Shall Overcome”. Their agenda is for once and for all to rid our planet of the toxic waste and the  dangerous fumes caused by plastic that has become the air we all breathe (in case you haven't noticed). Their argument was that the adults are slackers and are lagging too far behind in the effort to do something before its too late. They had the technical language of the chemical reactions of plastic and the effect this has on oceans and marine life down pat. I  sat back and listened, learned and applauded them for their vision, wisdom intelligence and t determination and courage to invest in their own future and ours.   

I am now remembering another documentary I recently viewed.   It was about the tribes  who live on top of the world in the Himalaya Mountains, at the highest point -- The Roof of the World as its called.  These people  teach their babies how to ride horses before they learn to walk. Their way of life is wholly connected and reliant on the land. They grow their own food. They drink clean water; they  use their animals for transportation, milk and fur and fat and bones. All of their life is held in the balance of Nature. I learned that if I sneeze they catch a cold.  If I don't decrease my carbon footprint this tribe will become extinct.

To be continued...

Moi, Mahmoudah - Brooklyn, NY