Nature

It was a very unseasonably warm 10C today with the sun shining brightly, so with the wife at work I decided I wanted to take the boys out for something special - some late lunch at a local restaurant, and then some fishing down at the river. It almost turned into a disaster when we were out at the Bagel Shop and I had to whisk them away before ordering, because of their tomfoolery. But a 10 minute drive and a good talking-to calmed them down enough to go back for another try, and sure enough they were good as gold.

As I recently wrote, sadly, we've forgotten about reducing and reusing, and somehow have come to think that recycling is some kind of magic fix for the malaise of the planet. I was trying to make this point recently over on one of my favorite hangouts when someone called me out and said something about recycling being the way nature works. Wow did that get my blood boiling! While it does on the surface appear to be true, it is very misleading and is an example of cherry-picking what one wants, and ignoring a whole bunch of other stuff because it is convenient to do so.

So what is "the natural order"? Wow! If I knew that I sure would be a happy person! I simply do not know. But one thing I do know, is that every minute of every day, I bring myself closer-and-closer to it! Through at slow, evolutionary process. Actually, to state most simply, "evolution" probably is a good way to sum-up "the Natural Order" in one word. But as soon as we give a name to it, we lose a considerable amount of the essence of what it is. So the honest answer really is that I really do not know. One thing I do know however, is that when I'm doing something which is in harmony with the Natural Order, I can feel it. And when I am doing something that goes against the Natural Order, I know it all-to-well too. Well, not always. But more-and-more.