Treasures for the New Year | THE CONVERSATION

I so appreciate people being on my list, reading what I send out. It's great to be in communication. We weave the new together. May the people of Earth come into a wider view of our place in the universe and learn to think as a planet during the coming year.

It's been awhile now since I've posted anything, but here are some treasures I've saved up for year end to help sustain us and inspire us in 2007.

THANKS
by W.S. Merwin

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in different directions

back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you
looking up from our tables we are saying thank you
in a country up to its chin in shame
living in the stench it has chosen we are saying thank you

over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks that use us we are saying thank you
with crooks in office with the rich and fashionable
we go on unchanged saying thank you thank you

with the animals dying around us
our lost feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the wires going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us like the earth
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
we are saying thank you and waving
dark though it is

For another angle on keeping our heads on straight, have a look at THE WOMBAT. “The wombat speaks, and he's smarter than you, so listen up! In less than a minute, this rapid-fire animation tells you everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the next million years.” http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml

And here's the earth that's worth getting along on. These works of art deliver the most beautiful photographic show I've ever seen. Feast your eyes on Li River in China and how beauty shines for us all through it all: http://nwn.myweb.hinet.net/index2.htm