My Little Corner Of The World
Saturday morning my husband and I spent 3 hours hoeing and weeding the front yard. We managed to get the larger half of the yard done before 11am.
At one point I became stopped in my tracks. I was watching a bee buzz around a small patch of weeds I hadn't gotten to yet. The weeds with the little purple flowers. The bee was very busy, going from blossom to blossom in this little patch that was no more than 10" across, but I realized that to this bee, at this moment, NOW, that was a jungle. A huge jungle lush with flowers and leaves and stems. A few other bugs crawled on the ground of this jungle but I was mostly interested in the bee. The way he flew in and out of the vegitation as easily as a bird flys through the open sky. It amazed me. This tiny little patch was an entire jungle, which made me think how small my little corner of the world is, compared to how much world there is to see.
Later we took my husband's grandparents out to lunch and drove around our area for an hour. We live in the High Desert of So, California, so there is massive desert land, untouched so far. Just land, sage brush, Yucca trees, Joshua Trees, tumble weeds, the usual. But it goes on for miles in most directions and I really love it. Grandma was amazed at how much our desert is growing in terms of business and housing, but was equally in awe of the enormous amount of desert still free and open.
Again, I was struck by our perception that this is a huge area, and yet miniscule by planetary standards. We all have our own worlds and judge everything by those guidlines. There are, therefore, millions of "worlds" right here, inside this big world we call Earth, which is inside a Galaxy, inside The Universe. The rest of the day I looked at things a little differently.
My initial encounter with the bee gave me a few moments to step back and appreciate my little corner of the world.
And by the way, I waited untill the bee was finished and flew off to some other jungle to hoe up that little patch. I hope he didn't come back looking for it.....
With Conscious Sincerity,
Nancy
