Whether today you celebrate Easter or Ēostre or some other rite of Spring and return of life, may you have a long and love-filled season. May we all learn better ways to honor our only home planet and learn to respect and care for each other and our differences. If we were all alike, the world would be both boring and failing. Celebrate differences. They're what make the universe function. Humans can't photosynthesize sunlight. That's the job of the plants turning our world green each Spring season. Do we know the special gift humans have to offer to the world? By now it should be clear that subduing nature isn't what we're here for.
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Easter Morning
by Jim Harrison
On Easter morning all over Americathe peasants are frying potatoes in bacon grease.We’re not supposed to have “peasants”but there are tens of millions of themfrying potatoes on Easter morning,cheap and delicious with catsup.If Jesus were here this morning he mightbe eating fried potatoes with my friendwho has a ’51 Dodge and a ’72 Pontiac.When his kids ask why they don’t havea new car he says, “these cars were new onceand now they are experienced.”He can fix anything and when rich folkscall to get a toilet repaired he pausesextra hours so that they can furtherlearn what we’re made of.I told him that in Mexico the poor saythat when there’s lightning the richthink that God is taking their picture.He laughed.Like peasants everywhere in the historyof the world ours can’t figure out whythey’re getting poorer. Their sons jointhe army to get work being shot at.Your ideals are invisible cloudsso try not to suffocate the poor,the peasants, with your sympathies.They know that you’re staring at them.
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