Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We are experiencing more deluge this week.  The rain pours down our front steps and I wear rainboots that look like a child's just to get to the street.  Any other shoe would be ruined in five minutes.  And the newspaper tells us none of this will prevent raging fires this summer.  It's still good for the reservoirs and plants and trees, but it's like telling us we're always going to be in high danger from floods or fires, with tiny breaks possible in between.  Too much information!  I don't want to be in catastrophe mode.  The rain is a good thing:  it clears the air, it refreshes the landscape, it creates mud puddles for dogs and toddlers.  I know, too much of it and disaster.  But though I absolutely believe in climate change, it is also a fact that Mother Nature is often not judicious, and can have a nasty temper.  Destruction is in her nature, and randomness her methodology.  We really are saying we want to control this planet, and that is a delusion.  We are subject to this planet and it's cycles, and our power for good or bad is pretty limited.  We will reach a tipping point when Mother Nature will erase the writing on the chalk board, and begin again, with a different configuration.  I just wish people had more ability to see our interconnectedness with all things, and stop acting like the boss of all things.