Sunday, May 25, 2014
Day 13, Part I (and maybe
the only part...as I want to chill today...though I have been doing that a lot
lately!)
The following are pieces
from a letter I sent to my mentor Apela Colorado that I feel relevant for other
friends on Facebook to see. I love my country of birth.....the United States of
America...very much...but lately I wonder where are nation is going. Nations
that sell their souls to corporations who have no interest in the health and
wealth of said nations seem to be nations destined to endure a dark night of
the soul. I would prefer to live in a nation where our food security is not at
risk of being compromised by a corporation like Monsanto. I suppose I am going
on record publicly by stating this here...and perhaps Monsanto has their own version
of police to harass people...but I will share nonetheless.
I am on my way to
Stralsund, Germany as I write this. Stralsund is in the far northeast of
Germany in the vicinity of the Baltic Coast. I have my next consultation visit
with members of the Vilm field office of the German Federal Agency for Nature
Conservation on Monday. I am scheduled to travel to Berlin on Tuesday…I will be
there until Saturday, June 1st when I travel back to the United States.
...
As I intuitively suspected
when I agreed to undertake this trip with the support of the American Council
on Germany I have been experiencing a profound shift in my perspective. I have
acknowledged to my ancestors that I am open to the idea of living and working
in Germany should a suitable opportunity present itself. I have a feeling
something huge is going to come soon…and my intuition is rarely wrong.
...
Two years ago in May, 2011
when visiting Maui I opened the Maui Times that Sunday morning and saw an
article about the Nazi legacy in Germany. My intuition told me that to come to
Hawaii again I must first come to Germany and confront the German shadow. I am
doing that now…and I feel I will reap great rewards for my courage.
There is indeed a part of
me that really does not want to return to America. I am growing very concerned
about what I am learning about Monsanto, about the Obama administration’s
apparent protection of this company (i.e. legislation passed by Congress that
included a rider that protects Monsanto)…and about this class of pesticides
that is believed to be responsible for the worldwide collapse of the bee
population. I shared a link on my Facebook page regarding this issue. I have
also done a bit of background reading on Monsanto in Hawaii. I wonder if there
is more to the story that the public does not know.
Apparently Vladimir Putin
was so incensed by the United States’ conduct regarding Monsanto that he
initially refused to meet with Secretary of State John Kerry. Can you imagine
our global food supply being undermined by our inadvertent destruction of the
planet’s bee population? It’s very surreal. Rachel Carson published Silent
Spring some fifty years ago…yet we humans do not seem to be learning much of
anything from our mistakes. I hope we will evolve…species that make poor
choices often lose out in natural selection!
...
There is so much more I
could write about insights I have had about my family. I will save that for
another time.
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