Which is it then, which comes first – chicken or egg?
Patience suits the tree all winter, but when spring comes, the urgency of buds sprouting leaves is essential – it is survival, it is growth.
Patience suits the migratory bird wintering down south, but when springtime arrives – mating without prolonged dating is essential to get eggs laid/hatched and get birds flying and grown before the fall migration.
Most businesses are seasonal but not as urgently time-sensitive as farming, where planting and harvest are human-controlled, and everything is whatever nature throws at you.
Plants and animals have been at this many hundreds of thousands, or millions, of years longer than humans – they’ve learned what we have yet to master: balancing patience with urgency.
I am rather outraged that anti-vaxxers are using their so-called rights to restrict my ability to resume my life - recreational and otherwise. But, who is being selfish? Them or me? That is the question. And on the subject of residential schools [WE MUST FIX THE FUTURE ] And, on the subject of the residential schools in Canada, I read your musings voraciously, however I did not opine at the time. Not for lack of opinion but because of my very strong feelings. Our internet world and instant newsfeeds wherein sound bytes are the order of the day have become distressing. Just like BLM, this too will pass. A lot of twitter storms and no action. I grew up knowing about the horrors and the good that came from residential schools. Some apologies were made - and, in fact Pope Benedict did apologize on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church in 1991. But the inaction that followed and that continues has done nothing to improve the plight of Canada’s Indigenous. Our Federal Government apologies for every little thing that comes along and, like the Trust and Reconciliation Report, remains impotent when it comes to actions. Actions do speak louder than words, IMHO, SB, Calgary, AB