Hello Everyone, These are fantastic times, and I mean fantastic in the purist sense. Funny thing, this author has to reread this ezine’s tag line nowadays to stay on purpose while penning Staying Awake. Obviously, I can get as emotionally distracted as any of you fine readers. “What is the tag line?” you ask. ‘...Being aware of our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand.’ Speaking of experiences at hand, allow me to pull you into another world; a world that is amazing some of us. As you read, go inward to notice your feelings, and be grateful you are capable of acknowledging nudges and glances of insight within your physical body. “Surprise!” MomentI am drafting this ezine right after watching the first two hours of National Geographic’s documentary Strange Days on Planet Earth. My surprise was felt when I turned on the television one minute before that program televised. Well, I nearly dropped the remote. I was not even aware of the documentary, and the tube had not been on for days. “Surprise!” Are you bahleeeeving that? My intent to gobble up as much information about Earthlings’ partnerships with nature is one of my primary fascinations. That intention has everything to do with turning on the television at just the right moment. The Joke Is on UsHumongous, exquisite processes have been going on behind our backs, or, rather, under our feet and over our heads as you will see in a moment. We Earthlings are not only a single, collective participant in embedded processes discovered in nature, we are extraordinarily observant of ourselves inside of the processes. Once we awaken our links to nature, and gawk at how nature affects our enterprises, we can no longer snooze. The joke is on us unless we awaken and pursue our interconnectedness, and calmly stay awake during our uncharted world cruise this decade. In the next section are elements in Earth’s unending transition about which I had not even a clue; to tell you the truth, I have become extremely curious if not down right thoughtfully excited. Earthly BusinessWhat has my curiosity about Earth’s natural happenings got to do with business? A better question might be, ‘What has business not got to do with Earth’s natural happenings?’ The National Geographic documentary shows, with very little scripted sensationalism, how an interloper, for example, a certain type of termite has purportedly traveled unticketed continent to continent on board humans’ ships and airplanes. Consequently, those interlopers have been attending their business for decades by munching in woods underneath and inside homes and buildings in the southern United States. Some of those structures are falling; landslides are likely to occur after sponge-like underground structures collapse from the gnawing appetites of innocent wee critters. Most termite colonies are family oriented, helpful, groom each other, and sophisticated in their communications with one another – even termites can be endearing. Would you believe plants spar with each other for resources and space? Plants are conscious. I have believed that for years, but little did I know as a kiddo that the ivy mom kept on the coffee table had actually schemed to take over the house. Plants, migrated into labs of research scientists, have found ways to nose around, forage, and multiply in common water ways of their new homes in foreign lands. Those overly grown, undaunted green leafies interrupt the flow of water through channels native residents had engineered for irrigating crops. Dust travels intercontinentally. Vast, circular weather systems rotating above Earth, gather dusts containing elements compromising the health of the destinations’ residents. We could be breathing last year’s air born skin cells from who knows where - oooo, that's a scuzzy notion. Do you see how Mother Nature has been continually using humans’ attributes, just as we are, distracted by tethers to illusions and technology, as a collective alliance for an inconceivable, magnificent evolutionary purpose? You might think natural processes have happened all along, and assume such attention to detail unnecessary. I would agree, but Earthlings have not had such a dazzling opportunity to observe these elegant processes on a grand scale with as many peoples or economies in the balance. What are we citizens, entrepreneurs, professionals, and business owners supposed to do before something disrupts the sustainability of technological and financial shrines? At this moment, continue doing and planning, and stay awake to the idea that choices, focuses, and resulting behaviors are only one part of an ongoing, unimaginably exquisite universal design, including other earthly businesses of interloping insects and plants. We Are in Training, Again.Our awareness training does not rest, so take your vitamins, eat and sleep well, and share and teach your expertise within circles of friends and colleagues you have chosen to surround you. Open your workbook to page one of stimulating ideas.
Let's stay attentive to and sense a responsibility for our collective creations as we remember intentions are all any Earthling creates out of. Let us create being in a state of staying awake. |
Our constant curiosity is key to watching what's being created. ~ DM
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