That you appreciate rain and rescue bugs and worms speaks volumes, Kert. I do the same, but I don't rescue worms. It takes courage to know that your neighbors might think you're "weird," but I have a feeling you don't care, or your neighbors already know what you're about.
You remind me of the story about the man in Mexico tossing horseshoe crabs back in the ocean that had washed up on the beach. "There are too many. It doesn't matter!" said a passerby. "Matters to this one," the man says as he tosses one back into the ocean.
Thanks Ryan! Yeah, I don’t care what neighbors might think and sadly I don’t think they care either—ultimately, it’s a benevolently selfish act. About that crab parable—I read just the other day a new perspective on it. Yes, the man is helping “that one.” But the real bodhisattva would have a look around to see why the crabs are beaching themselves in the first place THEN spend effort to end the source of it. Made sense—my neighbors however might actually start to care if I started using sledgehammers to tear up their sidewalks. Even so, it wouldn’t harm us to think a little more about how humans impact our natural world through the act of urbanization.
I sensed you wouldn't care, and you capture this precisely: "a benevolently selfish act." I think that trying to resolve the source is ideal. However, sometimes, I get consumed with the big picture and lose sight of the needs of the immediate situation. I agree with you.
Beautiful! We are all a part of nature, no one is superior to any other. Thank you for showing us the importance of all acts of kindness!
That is so true…no one is superior to any other. Would that more humans understood this, eh? What a different world we’d have.
And it all can start with worms. And rain.
I love the natural word! Thank you, Kert for sharing such beauty.
Thank YOU Yolanda! I’m smiling gratefully.
Lovely :)
That you appreciate rain and rescue bugs and worms speaks volumes, Kert. I do the same, but I don't rescue worms. It takes courage to know that your neighbors might think you're "weird," but I have a feeling you don't care, or your neighbors already know what you're about.
You remind me of the story about the man in Mexico tossing horseshoe crabs back in the ocean that had washed up on the beach. "There are too many. It doesn't matter!" said a passerby. "Matters to this one," the man says as he tosses one back into the ocean.
Thanks Ryan! Yeah, I don’t care what neighbors might think and sadly I don’t think they care either—ultimately, it’s a benevolently selfish act. About that crab parable—I read just the other day a new perspective on it. Yes, the man is helping “that one.” But the real bodhisattva would have a look around to see why the crabs are beaching themselves in the first place THEN spend effort to end the source of it. Made sense—my neighbors however might actually start to care if I started using sledgehammers to tear up their sidewalks. Even so, it wouldn’t harm us to think a little more about how humans impact our natural world through the act of urbanization.
I sensed you wouldn't care, and you capture this precisely: "a benevolently selfish act." I think that trying to resolve the source is ideal. However, sometimes, I get consumed with the big picture and lose sight of the needs of the immediate situation. I agree with you.
Not what I expected but I love the premise of saving the worms. 🙏🏻
That’s what you get for having expectations!
LOL!
I don’t really know what they were but worms were definitely not in them 😆
LOL!!! That’s perfect! Worms typically aren’t what I expect either.