{"id":1164,"date":"2020-10-10T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2020-10-10T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:02:18","slug":"blessed-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luterra.com\/blog\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Blessed rain
 On smoldering fires
 On fields of wheat freshly sown
 Germinating
 Reawakening
 Calling chanterelles from the Earth <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Blessed rain
 Reminding us that fires end
 That droughts end
 There will always be some new crisis
 Some new horror
 Somewhere on this giant planet
 To be funneled onto our little screens
 To lay claim to our empathy
 To prevent us from experiencing the joy
 Of blessed rain <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Blessed rain
 Reminding us that we are not in charge here
 That we could never move this much water
 With all of our fancy technology
 And that we will never have that power <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
We fashion ourselves as gods
 Claiming dominion
 Over land, sea, and air
 Over disease
 Over each other
 And yet we are anxious gods
 For we cannot even control the weather
 Or the ever-evolving biosphere
 Or the intricate workings of our bodies and minds
 Or our own inevitable mortality
 And so we live in fear <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
It is sadly ironic
 That we have created our greatest dangers
 In pursuit of comfort and safety
 Nuclear weapons
 Fossil fuels
 Plastics
 Chemicals spread far and wide
 So many creations of human ingenuity
 Each useful in a reductionist sense
 But harmful to the whole
 In ways that we do not see
 When we pretend to have dominion
 That is not ours to claim <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Blessed rain
 On Trump flags 
 And Biden signs
 On bankers\u2019 mansions
 And the tents of the unhoused
 On skylights above children peacefully asleep
 And windshields of night shift truck drivers
 On pastures
 And forests
 And city streets
 On a community of humans
 More committed to seeing differences
 Than shared experiences
 More committed to fear and suspicion
 Than acceptance
 So divided 
 That we fail to acknowledge
 Our common humanity
 So distracted
 That we fail to notice
 Blessed rain <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Like the seed extending first roots
 Raising fragile leaves to greet the autumn sun
 We too are beginning to awaken
 From the trance that has kept us 
 Distracted
 Afraid
 Divided
 Blessed rain
 Bringing us back
 Into the present
 Blessed rain
 Softly dissolving
 The illusion of control <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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