{"id":7803,"date":"2023-07-01T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2023-07-01T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:44:02","slug":"even-the-algae-are-fighting-to-save-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7803","title":{"rendered":"Even the Algae are Fighting to Save Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m feeling very lonely and unconnected. \u00a0“Nobody ever loved me and nobody ever will.” \u00a0I used to think that on a regular basis until two friends said<\/a> “That’s not true, I love you.” \u00a0I did my best to change it, but it still recurs periodically. \u00a0Went to my blog to see if I could find something hopeful, and read “Circle of Hope<\/a>.” \u00a0It definitely raised my spirits.<\/p>\n

Here’s my letter of thanks to all those who responded:<\/p>\n

Friday, 10:12AM What if?\u00a0\u00a0 From Neskaya<\/p>\n

What if 1,000 butterflies all flapped their wings at once? I feel reconnected with an organism that has a thousand hands to send help and a thousand legs to dance with.\u00a0 If particles of light synchronize their vibrations, it\u2019s called a laser, and you know it\u2019s powerful.\u00a0 If a bunch of people move in synchronicity, it\u2019s called \u201cCircle Dancing\u201d.
\nI have just had the lovely experience of writing 27 email replies to dear friends, old friends, absent friends and people I haven\u2019t even met yet who are now part of my electronic dancing circle.\u00a0 My friends, we span the globe: I heard from Bali, France, and Argentina, not to mention Mexico and California.\u00a0 I\u2019ve copied all your replies into one document so I can read it again when I feel discouraged. But I have to say that all together we are doing something more than just lighting individual candles in the darkness.<\/p>\n

I was reminded yesterday of something that gave me great hope at the time, but there was a further lesson to be drawn from it:\u00a0 there\u2019s a business called Ocean Arks<\/a>, that designs systems to deal with various kinds of water waste \u2014 like the Living Machines in Burlington and at Findhorn that deal with sewage.\u00a0 John Todd designed a system for a candy company, to handle 10% of their waste\u2026
\n\u201cOne Friday a computer malfunctioned and sent 100 percent of the waste in to the eco-machine, overloading the system.\u00a0 \u201cA godawful mess \u2014 foam, fats, oil, dead fish \u2014 everywhere,\u201d says Todd.\u00a0 Disgusted employees turned off the pumps and went home for the weekend.\u00a0 But when they returned on Monday, the eco-machine had rebalanced itself.\u00a0 \u201cThey were so startled by this self-healing; that\u2019s what turned the tide and allowed us to continue with other projects,\u201d says Todd, who confesses surprise himself.\u201d\u00a0 (from story in Hope Magazine, Jan\/Feb 2004, written by Sarah Tuff)<\/p>\n

This is Gaia, in small, an eco-system that\u2019s capable of handling an overload of toxic stuff.\u00a0 Humans created the mess, but humans also designed the solution and when they did something magical happened: nature joined the fight. One-celled creatures and plants and fish somehow cooperated to deal with the mess. Guess what, everybody \u2013 WE ARE NOT ALONE.\u00a0 Even the algae are fighting to save planet earth. Nature is on our side and ready to help the moment we open the door \u2014 remember the 40 pound cabbages at Findhorn, and the rainforest that\u2019s regenerating under the pines of Gaviotas.\u00a0 There\u2019s this huge process working toward health, awareness, consciousness, compassion \u2013 and it\u2019s bigger than we are, big as the planet, maybe even big as the universe (Today I believe for sure as big as the universe) and our circle dancing community is part of it.\u00a0 We are part of how the human community re-balances itself \u2014 we don\u2019t have to know how, all we have to do is keep on doing what we do.<\/p>\n

So KEEP DANCING EVERYBODY.<\/p>\n

Vast amounts of love to all of you from Jenny at Neskaya<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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