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My my my! Views from my windows this week reveal society in the front and side views! Because the large boulders are unstable, I sometimes fear for the safety of the fishermen. Last week a sense of foreboding washed over me when I saw three young boys fishing from the rocks. I insisted that they leave, and that night, the rocks fell from that very spot! The next day slightly-older fishermen were there, and one refused to leave. Sigh.
Rocks that fell the night before…
Views from my windows also revealed a large orange surprise that might offer another explanation for power outages! This orange surprise will be working here for a few weeks.
The orange tree-gobbling monster also has a tag-along work crew:
Are they being paid by the hour?!! Probably not, but two could probably do this job and show just as much progress each day!
So when my view from that side of the house reaches the breaking point, I sigh and turn back to the view from this window:
Open the window and breathe!
I am reminded of the chorus from Anna Nalick’s song 2 A.M.:
“‘Cause you can’t jump the track, we’re like cars on a cable
And life’s like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe… Just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe“
This one was necessary, and in their behalf, they’re trying not to destroy any more trees!
This post is brought to you by the WP Weekly Photo Challenge, Windows.
(“Another One Bites the Dust” post is in progress and will explain the work outside my window!!) Until then, I’ll paint swirls and remember to breathe, just breathe!
Z
What a wonderful thing to do – breathe! Funny thing, I was just reading Marcus Aurelius today, which resonates with your thoughtful post.
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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I am so very glad you can alternate your view.
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Those orange surprises seem to be everywhere, tearing things up.
si, and unless there’s a super highway planned for this gravel road, they’re fixing something that was never broken!
Painting your view is the best alternative. I can imagine what it is like hearing the heavy machinery just outside your window. Hope for quieter days ahead.
“No one can find the rewind button.” I keep looking for that thing and just can’t come across it. We are having a rainy Saturday here. I hope your orang tree gobbling monster is no longer hungry. All the best, BTG
we wish you only the calming views from your window dear amiga
remember my post about ‘and then there was one’? well yesterday afternoon they started filling in the hole where that lone one stood in remembrance of the others… i think that mangroves will suffocate if their breathing tubes are covered at water/ground level. one side now has soil piled to about ‘waist’ level, and the other is barely surrounded with water still standing near the roots. i hope i hope i hope we can save that tree!
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A disheartening view, Lisa. Thank goodness for your artistic swirling alternate view. I hate to hear about the mangroves. Now I have to breathe and sigh.
I like the view that that solar tunnel reflects inside.
What’s the point of all that destruction? Is it just a matter of big boys with big toys? Well at least you have that Van Gogh- like window to peer out of!
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It is so sad to see the destruction of so many trees. I hope it ends soon.
unfortunately the education has to start with the young ones.. an adult has trouble stepping out of his culture’s view in order to see it from a different angle. they sometimes get defensive when i ask them to protect the tree or to please don’t dump 12 feet of earth on the mangrove’s roots and bury it waist deep/half way to its canopy!
I think the biggest issue I had while we lived in Mexico was seeing the locals walk out of the grocery store, unwrap a food item, and toss the wrapper on the street. I had to continue to remind myself that it was not so many years ago that we in this country were doing the same thing. It is so difficult for me to watch someone having so little regard for this beautiful planet we call home.
that ‘custom’ touches my life here as well, and yes, it’s so hard to find a way to delicately reach them without offending them! ditto for the clear cutting of beauitful timber in order to have more farmland or pasture.. my stomach hurts when i see the growing area of cleared countryside. man will never learn until it’s too late…
I am seeing so much logging here in Florida as we drive from one destination to another, something I had not imagined I would see. :(
Oh, that great orange monster and its maw – quite an appetite its tribe has. But all’s not destruction – my current post is about historic trees saved, and old trees still living. Slowly, slowly, we’re learning not to treat trees like litter, just crumpling them up and tossing them away.
Now, if we just could do something about the “developers”. I understand people need housing and places to live, but the ones who move in and build “on spec” drive me absolutely crazy!
i just read your post and loved it (of course!) the watercolor of the acorns/leaves was lovely, and what a beautiful gift!
internet is very slow, so i’m sending this in case my other comment does not reach you on your post!
z