Close & Spooky Connections

Riffing on Caesium - 137 (see previous post)...

So yes, we test a bomb or drop a bomb in one part of the world, and the whole world experiences the effects - for a very, very long time. It kind of shows us that yes, indeed, we all are connected. There are the close connections, and the long, spooky connections. And this applies to everything. A crime against a human, is a crime against humanity. Someone pollutes the land, the sea, the sky, we are all polluted.

Our lives are part of an all-encompassing web, and that web encompasses the universe. We believe we are at the top of the food chain, but we are just a link. And every link has a job. And one link breaks and the chain is weakened, and ultimately it falls apart.

We sometimes feel alone, or in opposition to the elements, or to the universe, but this is not reality. We are embedded in a vast interconnected, ever-evolving, ever-expanding universe. Everything we can see, and touch, and think, and feel, emerges from this web of connections. We in a sense are the universe, not separate from it, we are in it, and of it.

So yes, everything counts. Everything we do implicates each and every one of us.