Our Interdependence
Sometimes we just don't realize quite how interdependent we are, as part of the "cosmic universe." For example, it's quite easy to look at the storm track of Hurricane Francis and say "well, it's not going to hit near my house, so I don't have to worry about it." Except this morning I got an email from one of the suppliers to my wiccan supplies website at enchanted works who is directly in the path. He's in danger. He's someone we know. What about all the ones we don't know? How about the other suppliers down there, and their families, and the customers on down the chain who aren't going to get some of the things they might need? So besides the obvious horror, death and destruction, there are other ramifications that occur that ripple across our lives in ways that can't be foreseen, regardless of how far from the eye of the storm you happen to be.
It's amazing how many things we do every single day that we don't foresee the consequences of. Every time someone buys a McMansion in our neighborhood where the developer has clear cut five acres of land and received a variance to overcrowd them into tiny little lots, they help the developer to do the same thing to another acres. When you vote for the county council member who approved the variance, you make it easier for it to happen again.
Other little things have a good effect. I was in a really nasty mood this morning, and a random car of random construction worker 20 something types wolf whistled at me as I came out of the post office. I should have been offended, but I hadn't been wolf whistled at since I was about 18. It made me smile instead :-). So I let a few people turn in front of me that might have brightened their day in turn.
So how this got from the horror of hurricanes, through McMansions, to the joys of wolf whistles is beyond my brain power today, but suffice it to say that everything we do has an effect that we may not comprehend at the time. And, as above, so below. The ripples go everywhere.
I've lit a candle for the Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Florida, and everyone else in the path of the storm. May you all enjoy the protection of the Goddess.