Thomas Merton’s early awakening to ecological destruction is noted in his journal Turning Towards the World (p. 274) in 1962 when he writes:
‘I have been shocked at a notice of a new book by Rachel Carson [Silent Spring], on what is happening to birds as a result of the indiscriminate use of poisons (which do not manage to kill all the insects they intend to kill).
Someone will say: you worry about birds: why not worry about people? I worry about both birds and people. We are in the world and part of it and we are destroying everything because we are destroying ourselves, spiritually, morally and in every way. It is all part of the same sickness, and it all hangs together.’
yes-yes
ReplyDeletehuman-beings are very insecure
that is why we have invented
religion and politics to stablise
the inconsisities of the human condition
a construct of the mind but alas
all is a mater of the process of change
that is not to say mankind does not live
a in a state of utter confusion you could
say origional sin-
so this _
SWEETS________
Sing sweet
sweet songs
greeving
greeving-
Voices of
weeping
weeping-
Pierced
the you
through
and
through-
Hartless
arrows
pierceing
pierceing-
Blood life
sweets away
sweets away-
Ashes ashes
all decay-
Sing
sweet
sweet
songs today!
Happy happy - All Souls Day- blessings _______