I am always amazed that despite our profoundly short-sighted and greedy abuse of the Earth, that we still are given the gifts of delicious and healthy sustenance, not to mention fields blanketed in wildflowers, mountain vistas, symphonies of bird song, and the annual dance of the seasons. Surely, we don't deserve such grace, but fortunately the Earth seems to agree with Shakespeare in that "use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? ... The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
It's this amazement, and the resulting desire to repay such gifts, that my poem "Warrior" expresses. I'm left with the sentiment best expressed by Earth First! -- "No compromise in defense of Mother Earth." I also believe the truth of Sun Tzu in The Art of War, "to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." But whatever kind of warrior one is, there's a lot of work to be done.
The music on this episode is "Venus and the Moon" from The Johnny Griffin Sextet's Little Giant, and features Griffin on tenor sax, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, Wynton Kelly on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Albert "Tootie" Heath on drums.
Listen to the episode here:
reportfromthemountains13.mp3
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