04/22/2026
Earth has no sorrow that Earth can not heal.
-John Muir
As he roamed the mountains and forests of California, the naturalist John Muir understood and wrote of the transformative experiences that we feel as humans when we are out in nature.
The planet Earth itself has experienced continual transformation over the ages.
The current age we occupy, sometimes known as the ‘Anthropocene’, is also part of the continuum of Earth’s transformative process.
This is the small window that we have been so utterly blessed to have the chance to glimpse through, and witness the wonders of the world around us and the unfathomably vast universe beyond.
Earth is our blessing, as is this amazing opportunity we call human existence. The unbelievably rare chance for an infinitesimally tiny part of the universe to be able to reflect upon itself, and see itself through our eyes, and minds, and hearts.
The Earth will continue to transform long after we have ceased to exist as a species.
In celebrating Earth Day, we are actually celebrating humanity and the miraculous gifts that we have been offered in this Earth, and in this life, and in this awareness.
What we are witnessing now, is the Earth beginning to close our window to the world, shuttering the aperture of our brief snapshot of the universe.
While the Earth will transform, it will be us who will suffer.
While the Earth will heal, the sorrow will be ours.
Peace,
-Aaron
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