Mid summer today and what a gorgeous morning ! A friend and I got up at 3.15am and headed off to a nearby mountain moorland where we had a great view of the sunrise ..... very moving and much food for the soul!
We were fairly quiet over our respective flasks of coffee and fennell, interspersed with personal silent musings..and then exchanging about some of our reflections.
She had recently returned from a healing retreat in Bali where she had met an NGO who had been working in the Congo and was feeling rather overwhelmed by the scale of atrocities that people can perpetrate on each other. Indeed she was having to give up the NGO work as it was more than she could bear. My friend pondered about how many people might be giving up on humanity ever being able to live as a considerate, responsible part of the planetary ecology.
Just then across the valley, I heard a cuckoo calling out three times ( almost biblical!!!)
My mind was caught by the timing of her question and the call from the cuckoo. It made me ponder whether some 'cuckoo' gene had gotten into the human genetic pool ..something which stands out as being equally incongruous with the natural humanity that most of us would want as the base platform for our lives on earth.
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