Flood Waters

St. Louis in Flood via flicker

While Washington recedes into it’s back rooms, Mother Nature has taken center stage. The week began with an awakened Mt. Redoubt volcano in Alaska and proceeded to record floods along the Red River. As this map shows, much of the nation can expect some level of flooding during the Spring runoff.

At the turning of the seasonal page it’s interesting that the politicians can’t hold the attention of the news cycle.  It almost a relief to have the economic uncertainty displaced bigger forces which we have no control over.

In the midst of these stressors, Earth Hour was celebrated last night, gaining a great deal of attention in the blogosphere.  Regardless of where you stand on global warming, reconnecting to the planet is clearly a task of our historical moment.  It’s one of the possible values of moving out of the industrial society and into the information society.

One things for sure.  I feel more related to the soil under my feet than the political systems that surround me.  While our Presedent is rattling his saber toward the Afgan mountains, in these hills, the sap is running in the maple trees.  I can sense it.

“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.  There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world’s soul and the psyche’s hinterland.”  Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, p. 225-226.