Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We had a little swoosh of rain last night early evening. At least it watered the plants. It had been over forty days of no rain. The Sierras are getting some snow, which is helpful, because it's snowpack that counts. I've lived where it rains all the time (Fiji) and growing up in states with enough rain, as well as seven years in Colorado, which was not in drought at the time, and I'm familiar with the cycles of rain and drought in California, but this drought is the longest in 1200 years. Everyone is conscious of it and worried. Fire is our fear, but even this time of year animals are suffering, trees are dying and the west is parched. One billion trees died in the last few years. Moving from Virginia to California as a kid what amazed me was the size of the trees here and how the forests were vast and primeval. Going back to the east coast on visits, the "woods" seemed almost toy, and the lakes surburban compared to here. We are losing something precious. We are the new Anatazi, and may be driven from our homes as they were a thousand years ago. Humans have always been at the mercy of nature and now they are destroying nature out of inability to look ahead and protect what we have. I'm pretty deeply disillusioned by our species right now, and our lack of concern for future generations. I want my grandchildren and others to have the gift of nature and the health it provides all of us.