Earthquakes, aftershocks and tsunamis are a frequent part of the lives of millions of people across our planet, that’s for certain. In the last 24 hours alone, dozens of earthquakes with varying degrees of magnitude struck around the world. That said, seismology strikes each of us, regardless of where we live, at a much more personal and profound level, both physically and philosophically.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I believe that we come from the earth. Garden of Eden or African savanna, sacred or secular point of view, I don’t care; either way, we come from the earth. There is dirt in our DNA. The earth is who we are. In light of our terrestrial origins, I believe the ground of our family tree, literally contributes to our genetic makeup. Investigating our planet enlightens us as to ultimately how we are forged and formed.
Each with fiery cores and constantly changing surfaces, stoked at varying depths by subterranean and subconscious forces, the resemblances between our planet and its people are difficult to miss. We erupt, spew and grow dormant only to reawaken at some later, mostly unpredictable date. Composed of water and deserts, peaks and valleys, naturally punctuated with rock-solid islands and attitudes, the innate tectonics of give and take continually reshape each of us.
Earthquakes remind us that life is full of tremors and jolts. Our planet and its people exist far from a static, fixed and stable state. Ruled by constant change and uncertainty, vigorous and sometimes forceful growth is part and parcel of life on and of Earth. Existence, above and below the surface crust is an ongoing transformation, a perpetual metamorphosis. Continual change fuels both geology and psychology. We are each scarred with fault lines, crevasses and rifts that register on Richter Scales of our own.
I often think we could learn a good bit from the engineers that work to secure our buildings, businesses, highways and homes from the devastating effects of earthquakes. Perhaps we can sway a bit more, tremble without tumbling, shake without surrendering, flow without falling, balance without braking, counter-balance without capitulating?
What if we replaced the fixed with flexibility, the static with the dynamic, the rigid with the rolling, the immobile with the mobile? What if we embraced the natural ebb and flow that both constitutes and encompasses who we are?
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Earthquakes, Aftershocks & Tsunamis (BuriedLogic.com)
Earthquakes, aftershocks and tsunamis are a frequent part of the lives of millions of people across our planet, that’s for certain. In the last 24 hours alone, dozens of earthquakes with varying degrees of magnitude struck around the world. That said, seismology strikes each of us, regardless of where we live, at a much more personal and profound level, both physically and philosophically.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I believe that we come from the earth. Garden of Eden or African savanna, sacred or secular point of view, I don’t care; either way, we come from the earth. There is dirt in our DNA. The earth is who we are. In light of our terrestrial origins, I believe the ground of our family tree, literally contributes to our genetic makeup. Investigating our planet enlightens us as to ultimately how we are forged and formed.
Each with fiery cores and constantly changing surfaces, stoked at varying depths by subterranean and subconscious forces, the resemblances between our planet and its people are difficult to miss. We erupt, spew and grow dormant only to reawaken at some later, mostly unpredictable date. Composed of water and deserts, peaks and valleys, naturally punctuated with rock-solid islands and attitudes, the innate tectonics of give and take continually reshape each of us.
Earthquakes remind us that life is full of tremors and jolts. Our planet and its people exist far from a static, fixed and stable state. Ruled by constant change and uncertainty, vigorous and sometimes forceful growth is part and parcel of life on and of Earth. Existence, above and below the surface crust is an ongoing transformation, a perpetual metamorphosis. Continual change fuels both geology and psychology. We are each scarred with fault lines, crevasses and rifts that register on Richter Scales of our own.
I often think we could learn a good bit from the engineers that work to secure our buildings, businesses, highways and homes from the devastating effects of earthquakes. Perhaps we can sway a bit more, tremble without tumbling, shake without surrendering, flow without falling, balance without braking, counter-balance without capitulating?
What if we replaced the fixed with flexibility, the static with the dynamic, the rigid with the rolling, the immobile with the mobile? What if we embraced the natural ebb and flow that both constitutes and encompasses who we are?