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Mother Earth Strikes Back
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14742 |
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LIFE
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11 / 1988 |
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Kathryn N. Hardin
Kathryn Hardin's humor articles first appeared nationwide
thirty years ago. This Arkansas grandmother draws on her
life, past and present, for her current anecdotes. |
"We are ravaging Mother Earth and she isn't going to stand for it," our younger daughter announced recently.
"I should certainly hope not," I murmured noncommittally.
I try to maintain a wait-and-see attitude when she makes random statements like this.
"We have plundered and pillaged her unmercifully, and she's beginning to strike back," our daughter went on.
"As well she should," I agreed.
"Mother! This is no time for levity," she warned darkly. "The earth's ozone layer is thinner. Her natural animal habitats are being wiped out. Her rain forests are disappearing. We are losing touch with our environment."
I had a feeling I was going to learn more than I really cared to know about Mother Earth's plight. Mother Earth and I had up until then enjoyed a laissez-faire policy with each other. I hadn't felt at odds with her and I most certainly hoped the feeling was mutual. But when my daughter said the earth's surface was traversed by energy ley lines (six- to eight-foot beams of biomagnetic energy running in a straight line through the surface of the earth) which should be preserved at all costs—to cut one is tantamount to severing one's arteries—I felt a sudden strong bond of kinship with our planet.
I have ley lines, also. I sometimes trail yards of plastic tubing—attached to an oxygen concentrator in the master bedroom—all over the house and, believe me, when someone shuts a door on my ley line it makes me mad enough to melt a polar icecap.
Following this conversation, I developed such a thirst for knowledge on the subject that I got the impression my daughter was sorry she had stirred the whole thing up.
I learned that throughout the centuries, wise geomancers have been careful to place buildings in positions that wouldn't clog the energy fields—chakras—considered by many ancient societies to be sacred.
I mentioned this to my husband when he said a real estate agent had approached him about the sale of five acres of our farmland for an apartment
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