DAILY LIVING PRACTICES TO CARE FOR CREATION
During October and November we focus on the importance of air in our Daily Living Practices to Care for Creation. Air is our ocean in which we live, move, and have our being. Our impact on the quality of the air impacts all creatures. In December we add the themes of hope and expectation of the Advent season.
Quotation for your Meditation
Long I roam’d the woods,
With the singular wild pleasure of being alone in the woods,
I know all the big trees and have come to a sociable silent understanding with most of them in the sunlit air.
I hold on boughs of slender trees caressingly there in the sun and shade—pulling and pushing, exercising my whole body—wrestle with their innocent stalwartness—and know the virtue thereof passes from them into me;
After I wrestle with the tree awhile—a beautiful object, every branch, every leaf perfect—I can feel its young sap and sinew and virtue welling up out of the ground and rising through me, like mercury to heat—tingling through me from crown to toe, like health’s wine….
Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.
In my soul I plainly heard the wood-spirit join the refrain,
As some old tree thrill’d with its soul:
Know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,
And all the rocks and mountains have, and all the earth.
Walt Whitman
Suggestions for Personal Action
If in the market for a car opt for the most fuel efficient one available. It will help clear the air. Visit the following website (www.fueleconomy.gov/) to find out the most up to date information on federal government data for electric vehicles. Check out this Commonwealth of Massachusetts website (https://mor-ev.org/resources) to learn about state rebates for purchasing or leasing an EV. Reduce your contribution to harmful CO2 emissions in whatever way you can.