Asteroids and Frogs

Siguiendo la onda de los asteroides, bueno, están hechos de pedazos de nuestro sistema solar, piedras como las que aparecen en esta foto, pero lo extaño para mí es que no son redondas. If they have been spinning and spinning, girando e girando por millones de años, why are they still jagged o dentados? Well, perhaps they just need more time...it takes time to change. I know I certainly need more time to make the changes I would like to make in myself, heh heh, but that's a long story, maybe as long as the Universe...who knows? :-)

Ayer, por primera vez escuché las voces de las ranas y los sapos. Cantaron toda la noche y hoy los dioses están llorando, lágrimas crujientes y ligeras al principio, después grandes y fuertes que causan mucha felicidad para las ranas y los patos, frustración para los seres humanos que prefieren un clima asoleado, (ni modo, hay que aceptar todo, no es nieve esta vez siquiera), y agua necesaria para las flores, plantas y semillas. Everything is as it should be, the snow has melted, the rain is falling from the sky, the leaves on the trees will be coming out soon, the frogs are singing, the ducks are finding food in the pond, the grass is turning green again and I am happy to be alive, to feel my body strong and energetic, (well, kind of), anyway, what was I saying?

Ah, the Universe...it makes no difference if I worry about the asteroid belt or not, if I spend time and energy thinking about an asteroid that may or may not fall on my head, nothing is changed, the planets keep on spinning and going around the sun, so I can just keep on living my life as I see fit and let the solar system do its thing and let the frogs sing and the rain fall which is now turning into ice crystals...there's nothing I can do about any of this stuff anyway, so why not let it be, not let anything affect my happiness, and simply do my own thing, do what I think is right?

Do the frogs care about asteroids? Cantan y cantan hasta que ya no puedan cantar más.

Vivimos hasta que ya no podamos vivir más.

Amaré hasta que ya no pueda amar más.

Aceptaré hasta que ya no pueda aceptar más.

I will live, love and accept until I can no longer do so.

And then, what will I do? ¿Y entonces?

I don't know...only the Universe knows, maybe.

(Una pregunta más...¿Cómo está el sapo cancionero?)

Soy Lorena.
4/12/07

Chicxulub

Un asteroide cayó en el Yucatan de México en un lugar llamado Chicxulub, medía unos 10 a 20 kilómetros de diámetro y causó oscuridad y temperaturas congeladas por seis meses. Algunos científicos dicen que esto es la razón por lo cual los dinosaurios se hicieron extintos.

The asteroids are still with us. Supposedly they are leftover pieces of our solar system, some small and some up to 100 miles wide. They travel around the sun between Mars and Jupiter and this is called the asteroid belt. There is a rumor that a large asteroid is coming our way, but there is also some disagreement as to the chances that this will happen. I can't help thinking about the Mayan calendar that around 2013 this world we are in currently will end. According to the Mayans, we are in the fifth world and it will be destroyed by earthquakes. Tsunamis are earthquakes under the ocean, aren't they?

La vida cotidiana...¿qué tiene que ver todo esto con nuestra vida cotidiana? ¿Cuáles son tus preocupaciones? ¿Te importa si un asteroide cae en un paíz lejano en la Tierra? ¿si gente inocente muere por una guerra civil? ¿si niños y mujeres en un paíz con un nombre que no puedes pronunciar privan de comida? ¿si tu café está frío? ¿si cae nieve en abril? ¿si cada día notas más arrugas en tu cara?

Son muchas preguntas, pero cuál es la pregunta importante aquí? ¿QUE IMPORTA EN LA VIDA? EN LA TIERRA? ¿QUE VALE LA PENA? ¿QUE DEBEMOS HACER? ¿COMO DEBEMOS COMPORTARNOS?

I'll say this again in English, just to be sure. WHAT MATTERS IN LIFE? ON THE EARTH? WHAT IS WORTH IT? WHAT SHOULD WE DO? HOW SHOULD WE BEHAVE?

These are questions that have individual answers. Each one of us is unique in the usual way. Yes, I know that sounds like a contradiction, but I love living with opposites and contradictions. Afterall, life is full of them. I may not love what you do but I can still love you, the person, the human being, the one who is like me, recognizing that we are all part of one big humanity. Oh my God, why is it so hard for us to love and so easy to push each other away, make others different, so we have an excuse to hate them and kill them? I don't understand it. I see it, hear it on the news, but I don't get it. If I destroy you I destroy me...why would I do that? And yet, that's what we do.

Okay, I'm going to tie this all together, to try and make sense out of it, the asteroids and daily life. Vivo en esta Tierra, soy parte de la Tierra, no puedo deshacerme de ella, tengo que quedarme aquí, no tengo alternativa, estamos aquí todos, todos somos parte de este universo, de este sistema solar con el Sol en el centro, el Sol que nos da vida y energía y somos parte de los planetas que giran alrededor del Sol en sus órbitos, cada planeta siguiendo su propia onda y entonces todo es perfecto, todo sigue como debe de seguir, los planetas y los asteroides y no chocan, los miles de piedras que hacen el "asteroid belt" se quedan allí, van en orden, it is not chaos. Look at the stars, the same stars that have been there for centuries, they move in circles, they don't crash into each other. They live in harmony. They live in peace.

THAT'S THE ANSWER. WE MUST LIVE IN HARMONY WITH EACH OTHER, THE WAY THE PLANETS EXIST IN THEIR UNIQUE ORBITS SPINNING AND SPINNING AND CIRCLING THE SUN, THE MAGNIFICENT SUN, THE GIVER OF ALL LIFE, ENERGY AND LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Es tremendo mi querido Sol.

El Universo.

And everything in it.

Including us.

Yes......even us.

May we soon awaken.

Soy Lorena.
4/10/07