It's just past seven. The house is completely dark. We have family visiting for the weekend. They're sleeping on the living room floor. I don't want to turn on lights and wake them.
I do see some light coming in through the cracks around the edges of the curtains. Leaves are swaying back and forth in the light. When I was out there before six I noted the wind was blowing out of the south. There were some faint stars in the sky.
I have mentioned that I am reading "Providence," by Daniel Quinn. I have read it many times over the past 20 years.
His work will not leave me alone. I feel like before I die I have to go into deep enough so it will let go.
Quinn's books were about saving the world. And to save it you have to understand it. He helped me understand it.
What he meant by saving the world is saving it as a human habitat. Every species on earth needs habitat. If you destroy their habitat you destroy them.
The more habitat that is destroyed for other species the more it effects humans physically and spiritually.
If you ever wondered why we grow native plants that's one reason why.
Quinn was objective with his approach. There was no sentimentality in it.
What he taught me was the world was created by a competent God or gods. One or many, whatever works for you. And anyone who knew how to look at it objectively (phycists, biologists, astronomers, etc.) marveled at how well it worked.
For example Canadian geese fly south for the winter, human babies are in the womb for 9 months, whitetail deer lose their antlers in January, etc.
I gotta go now. Until next time. Hope you have a great day.
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