Wood Chips
From the shores of Lake Superior (The Third Coast)
The current pandemic, sweeping the planet, is brutally bringing us back home to understanding the consequences of not supporting healthy ecological integrity. There is a price we have paid for disrupting natural systems of self-regulation. COVID-19 has become a lethal teacher.
Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and researcher, is one of the authorities on the current spread of SARS-CoV-2. She was among the first to paint the fascinating, chilling picture of our overconfidence of modern science and the complex dynamics that we are discovering shape the natural world’s microbial life. In “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance” (1994), she writes the spread of lethal viruses like HIV, Marburg Disease, and Ebola are ecological paybacks for human behavior, flawed technology, and the destruction of natural ecosystems that hold all systems of microbial life in balance.
Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, efforts to protect our natural ecological systems are connected to a rising level of consciousness that impacts the health of the planet. Where ever you live, find a new balance in a deeper way of living. Bless the water, the air, the forests and animals that are part of our wider divine family of which we are discovering we all are a part.
Jon Magnuson
The Cedar Tree Institute
“Wood Chips” is a series of brief reflections written by Jon Magnuson, Director of the Cedar Tree Institute.
