Take heart from earth and weather
The brightness of new birth
Take heart from the harvest
Shave the harvest from the earth
You know you´re in the Amazon when:
1) The electricity goes out for up to 24 hours at at time, several times a week during the rainy season.
2) The local municipality hires workers to fill in thousands of potholes along the Amazon Highway (a narrow dirt road), BY HAND, using only shovels, wheelbarrows and dirt.
3) You see villagers take their children to a witch doctor rather than to an M.D.
4) You witness, first-hand, the deforestation of the rainforest.
5) Your clothes always smell moldy, even after you wash them, due to the constant humidity of the Amazon.
6) You use a machete to "mow" your lawn.
7) You encounter frogs, birds, lizards, rats and thousands of insects in your house.
8) Your neighbors live in wooden shacks.
9) You discover a mushroom growing in your house, even though your house is made of cement.
10) You have to explain to the people in your Amazonian village where the Amazon is!
In acknowledgement of several significant religious holidays this week:
To the Catholics: Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Easter
To the Buddhists: Happy Buddha Day
To the Jews: Happy Passover.
Supernova signing out. Enjoy.
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