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A Small Moment of Wondering

The San Luis Rey Mission Oceanside CA

Yesterday as I was driving home and stopped at a four way signal by the San Luis Rey Mission, I spied something small and incredibly sweet. The hillside grass this time of year in Oceanside California, is lush green velveteen from the rains and the lovely fragrance of the promise of Springtime is in the air literally. My eye roamed the corners of my stop and to my joyful surprise, the small baby squirrel hopped toward the corner of what I suppose was a tempting taste of green sweetness.

He looks at me, and I am him 

This little creature, so very small, furry, and quite bold looked at the street full of automobiles with their spewing tail pipes of toxic fumes like he knew with his little instinctual wisdom of wildness , that he was king of his world, on this emerald green corner, and knowing this, safe from the asphalt street full of monsters...

He was a surprise of wonderment for me from the Natural World that needs no enhancement of our mondarity . He was fearless from the fears we face everyday with the resolve of our superior brain. His world is soft and lush, full of green sweetness, Our World is one of natural wonders that we with our superior brains are quietly making our Earth increasingly difficult to inhabit, and now the Oval Occupant has commandeered the EPA to go quietly into the dark night.

I am, for one moment, the little one sitting on the corner of lush green complexity, filled with toxic fumes, taking my time, tasting springtime, safe on the soft green corner of eternal growth of the seasons, and know that while I stay in my little space, I am safe...    The signal light changes...