I have been in tears so many times recently, tears streaming down my face watching what is happening in Australia. All those animals that have died, trapped behind barbed wire. Homes lost, people missing, ecosystems destroyed.

I was lucky enough to live in Western Australia for 3 and a half years and to get to spend time in their beautiful forests.

I like to consider myself a positive person,believing that we receive what we can handle. But with so many innocent lives lost, it is hard to remain positive. @riverflows wrote a beautiful post today, one that I really needed to read, focusing on the many people who are being proactive, who are helping those in need. Reminding us that we are coherently good at heart.

Tragedy always brings humankind together, it shakes people awake and suddenly they can see what it is they always had and what they have taken for granted.

But there has been so many tragedies of late, so many fires burning. So much wilderness and wildlife lost. The earth screaming for us to stand to attention.

And finally we are.

But why must it always, have to get to this point before people take notice. There are enough of us around the world, using our voices to spread awareness. Using our voices to speak for the earth, but we are not being heard, not until there is a huge catastrophe.

When are we going to learn, when are we all going to finally see where our rightful place on this beautiful planet is.

Because we are interwoven with it, we are part of the many threads that make and shape this world. But so too are the other animals, the plants, the trees. Our threads are no bigger or smaller, our threads are the same!

We are as dependent on this interconnectedness,as all other life forms. Because all of us together, bring about balance. But we have been playing a rather dangerous game, us humans have believed for far too long that we are superior and that we have more rights. This sense of entitlement has led to a fraction of us becoming more dominant in their worldview.

When we see the earth as something that we can own, then we seem to think that we have the right to use and abuse it. But when we see our relationship with earth for what it really is, then we love and respect it. We are a part of the earth, it is not ours to own. We are here, to be of service to the earth, so that it continues to sustain and nurture us, as it does with all other life forms.

This has always been so easy for me to understand, everything we need to survive comes from the earth, everything! So why would do we continue to behave as though it does not?

I am hoping that this is helping more people to wake up, but the cost is so big. The suffering, the pain of so many is so much. What a prize to pay for the continued disconnection so many feel from nature, from their responsibility for the earth.

All photos are mine, from when I lived in Western Australia. Showing the beauty of the Australian Bush.

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