Today, I visited my local farmer’s market to pick-up some garden fresh produce to make potato/mushroom/arugula soup, and to say hello to my friends who were having a vegan bake sale for Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary in French Camp, CA (San Joaquin Valley).
The baked goods were delicious!
Today, I visited a friend in the hospital. My friend is 27 years old and has 11 bullets in him. The result of a disagreement at a club in Vallejo, CA last weekend. The club, is roughly 7-blocks from the house we bought in Vallejo in 2000, the home where my ex-wife and dogs still live.
Today, I reflected upon my garden, I realized that I was both smiling & shedding tears
- The smile was for the flowers, for the good people in this word (for my wonderful friends), and just how fortunate I have been in my life and career
- The tears, for many things, my friend, of course, but mainly for the pain and misery we humans cause upon this world and its inhabitants
Today, I realized that until we change how easily the 1% are allowed to sweep the problems of the 99% across a bridge (or to ‘the other side of the tracks’) and until we change how the world’s agribusiness leaders view their products (the animals that end up at Harvest Home or other sanctuary’s) that any real and lasting change will be slow in coming.
Today, I looked at the photo’s I took of my patio when I got home from the farmer’s market this morning and realized that change indeed happens – it sometimes happens painfully slowly, but change definitely happens if enough people get involved and say ‘enough already‘. Sadly, all of the bad things that currently plague our society will continue to occur during such periods of change.
Today, I realized that this is only the world I live in at this point in time, I realized that I can help fix it, I just have to be patient and enlist a solid support group of friends.
Today, I am glad, that today, is almost over.
What an amazingly powerful post. Well done — and, somehow, we will all survive.
Thank you Kevin, yesterday was definitely one of those days – I would have loved to write the usual garden update; however, the words that fell out of my head went another direction – I appreciate your comment very much! – Noah
Wow, that was a beautiful post and I’m glad you could see some beauty today amongst the tragedy. I hope your tomorrow will be better. You are making the world a better place and inspiring others. Just know that.
Thank you for your comment – I am truly touched by the responses. Yesterday was not the best or worst day, but, the day was enlightening. Today, I can put yesterday in the days gone by file, and am set to go hiking w. friends and enjoy the world of today – changing the world can wait until Monday (unless, of course, an opportunity presents itself today) š