For the Turtles

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Yesterday,

I heard a 60ish Friend talking

about how he would shoot

those beautiful Turtles

on his pond bank.

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I don't get it.

We seem to be faced

with a cultural tendency

in our "advanced" society to "kill".

If a "problem" arises,

shoot it,

poison it,

destroy it,

dominate it,

obliterate it.

Problem is:

We 2 leggeds

now have the capacity

to create systems of destruction

which could destroy us all.

With a lot of Folks

trigger happy

to destroy,

much is lost

quickly

and on a very broad scale.

The fabric of Life

which is the Creation of the Divine

is tattered

maybe even beyond repair.

Those little "problems"

exist for a purpose.

In fact,

they may not be

problems

at all.

They represent

teachings,

about Nature

and about ourselves.

We should listen more.

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Glinda Crawford, 2010

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