No one seems to be worried about the rabbits

ramblings

Last Monday I started working in the orchard, clearing desert brush from around the citrus trees. They grew “naturally” and will be left as ground cover to protect the heavily trodden soil. Rabbits darted across the orchard every time I walked down the aisle.

I finally listened to Ismael. Daniel Quinn said that the mistake of mankind is their greed for the sake of “growth”. Animals, unlike humans, don’t compete. Rather they share and take their turn. He uses the example of a lion who only kills what he is hungry for. Nothing more.

Call me god-less but greed cannot please. Only moderation can do that. Greed makes pleasure scarce. In moderation, pleasure rises, and pleasure sets.

Citrus plants have spikes that will only make you bleed if you sweep unripe plants liberally. Thorns that say “ah ah, I have not yet asked for you to eat me.”

I learned that someone I love didn’t know love. She said we were brought into this world alone and we will die alone so you might as well just look out for yourself. At fourteen I may have agreed. But unlike our gods, I was brought into this world in my mothers arms and she will leave this world in mine.