A story to tell about how the banner ended up in Mongolia. But first just a few words about the banner itself. It was created by me several years ago now but first appeared in Homer, AK as a way to foster an evolution of consciousness.
You´d think by now we´d have gotten a bit tired of killing one another over our differences and tried something a bit, dare I say it, ¨radical¨ Like loving your neighbor as yourself and Peace on Earth and with the Earth.
Love is transformative and unifying, all other motivations based in fear and false ideologies have failed us. It has always been The Way as Jesus and other spiritual masters have taught. We have collectively chosen to ignore it. And now because of it with climate change, the survival of all of life on Earth and our own is in jeoprady.
The do no more harm part, that´s from Buddhist teachings. All of life is sacred when one understands deeply that everything is connected.
Without trees we´d all be toast. They absorb CO2 and give us our atmosphere. How about a massive program to stop all deforestation and adopt sustainable forest practices world wide and every school have their own Arbor Day event to put trees back in the ground.
The tree shown is a golden spruce that once grew on the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia in Canada. Luckily, clones were taken from it at the right time and it may yet be saved as a rarity among Sitka spruce, similar to pine.
A humpback whale and polar bear, iconic species, the former recovering after relentless hunting of all whales - polar bears threatened as the planet warms and record melt back of the arctic ice pack continues at a record pace.
What might the crews of astronauts from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle have to say to all of us after they passed to the other side from accidents in space? And I imagined it could be Love is the Way.
To be continued. I´m using a computer in the Boquete, Panama library this date and was just informed I have only ten minutes remaining.
Werner Van Steen and his partner Marion, dear friends from Belgium took the banner to Mongolia this past January when it was minus 58 degrees F.
Excuse the edits I may have missed. I will be away from a computer for awhile.
Enjoy
Peace Rider
