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Tending to the Soil
We all need to be active members in taking care of the earth. When I say the earth, I don’t mean the current state of this planet, which has been steeped in a plethora of money and strained through the patriarchy for hundreds of generations. I am talking about the ground beneath our bare feet, the rich earth burying itself under our soles, the soft mud squelching in between our toes. I am talking about the soil.
By Olivia Rose Phipps5 years ago in Earth
No One Grows Things In The Ground Any More
Come on--no one grows things in the ground any more. Do they? An ex-girlfriend decided one year that we should grow our own tomatoes. We spent six months and two hundred dollars in order to save three bucks on salads. We didn’t break up over super-expensive tomatoes, specifically, but maybe my pigheaded resistance to amateur agriculture was one of the two hundred and fifty seven things I did that persuaded her to seek out greener pastures.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in Earth
Roots
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood, declared Marco Pierre White, a British chef. What a smart quote and from a culinary chef no less! Am I being facetious? I really hope so given that a tree without roots is surely dead first and mourned by his tree family and acquaintances who throw him an underground memorial. I was a witness to such a ceremony, watching it from a tree cavern, and this is how it sounded in my tree-focused head.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Tree Day
Valentine’s Day? Love doesn’t need a specific day. Love is a permanent state. I love Athena every day at every moment and she knows it all the way in Greece where she stands tall like all women should, facing their often despicable men. Oh, there are good men. There is no doubt about it. But most of them have died, and rarely from old age. Some of you may already know the men I admire, so I won’t repeat their beautiful names again except for dear Nietzsche, Freud, and Charlie Chaplin. I may have named them all. I digressed, though. I wanted to raise your awareness again about trees in all their splendour and fragility, facing the most bloodthirsty predator on Earth. COVID-19 is an amateur in comparison, the new strain of half-life on the block of existence.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Life From the Ground Up
The soil has been amended and tilled. The smell of freshly worked earth is a turn on to me. I eagerly await the day Mother Nature allows me to create my annual masterpiece, my vegetable gardens. I’ve pretty much designed the layout in my head over the winter, taken into consideration crop rotation patterns. Sitting cross legged in the warm earthiness, I go over the rules as vegetables are a bit like high school girls. Potatoes do not like tomatoes. Potatoes don’t like cucumbers. Do not plant beans with onions or beets (I love me some beets). Beans love carrots. Beets love onions and potatoes. Tomatoes love carrots and peas. Beans and cucumbers are not friends. Carrots and onions do well together. Those are the basics and there are more rules. Sounds complicated, but the rules shape the architecture of the gardens.
By Jennifer Jones5 years ago in Earth
Meet More Meat
I am a tree. Hath not a tree senses? Hath not a tree a trunk, branches, leaves, sizes, affections, roots; fed with similar food, hurt with similar weapons, subject to similar diseases, healed by similar means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a human is? If you prick me, do I not bleed? If you hug me, do I not love you inside? If you axe me, do I not die? And if you wrong me, what can I do? If I am like you in the rest, I will resemble you in that. If a tree could wrong a human, what would be its punishment? Death. If a human wrongs a tree, what should his sufferance be by human example? Why, death. The villainy you show me, I will not take, and it shall be harder for you now, and I will survive your instruments of my destruction. Shaketree, from The Tree of Venice
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Does India has its own UFO base?
We as humans are always intrigued by extraterrestrial beings, be it aliens or UFO. We are always curious to know more about them, there are all kinds of theories that support our belief in the existence of aliens, although these theories are not scientifically proven or acclaimed by the government, it has never stopped us from believing otherwise.
By Simran Chimaniya5 years ago in Earth
COVID – 19…………
There has always been talks of sudden disasters, viruses that will break and cause somehow chaos to the people. Now is the time, I came suddenly without regards to mankind. Usually things of such sort, like the introduction of being at the forefront of the limelight! To all the peoples surprise, I have appeared at some of your doorsteps allowed myself into your home to make my presence known! I have been probably an illusion of some of your minds, or even a thought that may have been just easily to be excused! Just the plain nonsense of knowing that I exist and have been brought to life is surely insane! Well keep in mind the mere thought of my existence is purely not in any way good for mankind at all! I may have been formed of the pure minds that explore scientific measures of actually tampering with mother nature! There are many avenues that may have caused or even created my existence at this time! I can honestly say, how did I even come to surface into this world! Ask yourselves did you create me in a manner of greed, or did you simply create me to be solely in charge of all mankind knowing that by utilizing scare tactics, and abusing your seats of commanding the people could actually work? Ruling by those demeanors is obviously plain cowardly! Do not expect to be respected for creating and implementing a virus to control the people of the world! We are of born into this world with free will, but those who are greedy of control will always seek to be in control for nothing is ever satisfactory to themselves. By knowing these types of people exists, there must have been a plot for my birth into this society! I have been clearly brought here for damage control! My existence is futile, I am not here for anyone’s prosperous life or to even care but to do exactly what was imbedded in me to do! I know I am destruction to the lives of everyone that I can destroy! I am far from kind but knowing that I have landed and destroyed people’s lives. This appears to be why I was even created! A relentless avenue of trial to be tried into the people of the world! I have yet to understand the possibility of anyone in their right mind creating something so destructive for anyone! I believe I am here on a trial base which went completely wrong! I know that my existence has taken beautiful lives, innocent lives, lives period to no fault of theirs! What am I made of, why am I here into this world, being the sole thing that has cause tragedy to innocent lives that were in this world trying to coexist? Having kids, your life partner to explore their lives together to be the best family they can possibly be on earth! I have affected lives that were quite well to do, happy, loving and great health. Co-existing to survive in this world that they live in. Being the cause of turning their world upside down, brings me to wonder how is it that I became in existence or even what I have cause to all these families! Yes, COVID-19, I have landed into this world called earth and I believe I am not prejudice to anyone! I have taken a toll of creating disasters amongst families, public and government! Having all scared, buying up all groceries, gearing up with safety protection gear as well as keeping 85 percent of the nation ready of lock down in their own homes. Obviously, I am one but I have a way of moving and having control over millions. I am not people friendly, contagious to a degree and vicious to all mankind. I believe I am living to destroy what I can or even who I can! But in retrospect I do exist for the mere thought of being unkind! I will destroy what lies in my path, I will take control if I can’t be controlled. I will spread with opportunities granted to me! I will not take for granted that the people let their guards down. I am here to seek out what I can destroy with my abilities to take control of human beings. I am by far no friend of yours. Nor am I not here to make any friends along the way. I will seek out and destroy what I can until you figure out how to destroy me or to keep me contained. Until the journey of my co-existing amongst you all is here for the long haul. If any of you dare try, coming together, there are millions to one, I believe with all the intellects in your world, there is a solution that you folks can uncover. I challenge the world, for the odds are fairly in the worlds favor! Remember, I am only one! Clearly, the most effective solution is a plan well thought together. Put down the ignorance card and obtain the cure! I am merely one verses, several million!
By Barbara Falo5 years ago in Earth
