Wombs and Tombs

As natural as childbearing is, the task is daunting. The responsibility for the survival of mankind is largely at the feet of women as we carry the future of the world within us.

With as many people that we have on the planet, it isn’t as pressing of an obligation as it surely once was. There was a time when women were entrusted to preserve what little chance we had to survive on this treachorous planet. In the past something like the 2004 Tsunami could have nearly wiped us all out. This world is magnificent, beautiful, and deadly. We are not as safe as we all wish we could be and there is no assuredness to the ultimate survival of life on this planet.

But while we are here, we are a part of its cycle of life and death. We should understand more of our place, to grasp how we are connected to the natural world and to other species. I recently watched the film My Octopus Teacher. It was an elegant study of the relationship of man and nature. It evoked an appreciation for the cycles of life and death that are represented all around us.

Death reminds us of our place, of how we will return to the earth and it is the beautiful burden of knowledge we all carry with us.