She Strives to Kill Us

The South trembles under another cold, icy invasion from the North. This happens with some regularity during winter months, of course. It reminds us that Mother Nature cannot be imagined as a comely women, garland wreath around her head, with birds and butterflys circling round exuding goodwill to all.

This cold invasion more accurately reflects her intent to kill us! If you have stood near a tree as it is struck by lightening or been on the sea when the waves suddenly reach extraordinary heights, you get the message.

We intuitively know this. We spend a huge proportion of our resources on sheltering ourselves from her, clothing to fend off her attacks and securing our nutrition so we do not have to eat only what she would allow -- from hunting and gathering.

We exists on the thinnest possible veneer on this earth with a blind faith that we will be OK and that we command our future and fate. How delusional! Mother Nature with her storms, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes calls the tune. We should bow gratefully that she has not not yet decided to simply erase, rub us out, of our puny existence on this planet.