tibetan prayer flags
stand out better
against concrete.
I am angry. I'm in the Rockies at the moment, and today I went for a walk near a creek that's been lovely for years, until the Alberta flood, and now it's dead. Absolutely dead. It used to be a beautiful creek, full of nooks and crannies, pools and rapids.... It was glorious. Nestled into the mountains was this body of water that entranced me, a prairie girl.
Then there was the Alberta flood. People love nature, so they moved closer to the creek, right onto its rim. The creek is usually a trickle of water in a huge basin, swelling in the spring, but that year it flooded right over. Everything was in disarray. The water took trees and boulders with it, and by the time I was back there, the water had smoothed it out and the trunks were deposited everywhere.
Well, if the water had smoothed it out, why don't we continue? The bulldozers moved in. The other heavy machinery moved in. It was scooped out - to make more room for people! - and now it's being paved with boulders almost as big as the natural ones but really really square. Terrifyingly perfect. It's disgusting.
This seems to be the nature of humans. Love, kill. We don't realize that we are part of an interdependent web of life, that we not only need the environment but are part of the environment. If we destroy the life around us we destroy ourselves, but we seem caught in this cycle. Near the creek, there's a house with bright Tibetan prayer flags, and they looked nicer against the backdrop of nature. From CTV:
stand out better
against concrete.
I am angry. I'm in the Rockies at the moment, and today I went for a walk near a creek that's been lovely for years, until the Alberta flood, and now it's dead. Absolutely dead. It used to be a beautiful creek, full of nooks and crannies, pools and rapids.... It was glorious. Nestled into the mountains was this body of water that entranced me, a prairie girl.
Then there was the Alberta flood. People love nature, so they moved closer to the creek, right onto its rim. The creek is usually a trickle of water in a huge basin, swelling in the spring, but that year it flooded right over. Everything was in disarray. The water took trees and boulders with it, and by the time I was back there, the water had smoothed it out and the trunks were deposited everywhere.
Well, if the water had smoothed it out, why don't we continue? The bulldozers moved in. The other heavy machinery moved in. It was scooped out - to make more room for people! - and now it's being paved with boulders almost as big as the natural ones but really really square. Terrifyingly perfect. It's disgusting.
This seems to be the nature of humans. Love, kill. We don't realize that we are part of an interdependent web of life, that we not only need the environment but are part of the environment. If we destroy the life around us we destroy ourselves, but we seem caught in this cycle. Near the creek, there's a house with bright Tibetan prayer flags, and they looked nicer against the backdrop of nature. From CTV:
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