Life
By Len Morgan
Life is all around us and, beneath each patch of ground we step on. Insects butterflies moths and bugs inhabit the earth, air, and sky.
Molds mosses grass and trees are inhabited by life. Every time you place a foot on the ground you cover a microcosm of life far outnumbering the human inhabitants of the earth.
Each breath you take contains more microbial life than there are grains of sand on South End beach.
A disinfectant that kills
99 per cent of all known germs when used on your hands will leave more germs,
outnumbering the population of the
We have always thrived living side by side with them. The children we seek to protect from them are fast losing their natural immunity. Asthma and other common allergies were rare when I was a child. We played in the streets, amongst the dirt. We swam in the local duck pond, climbed trees, picked mushrooms. Accidentally dropping a jam sandwich on the floor, we blew off the dirt and ate it.
There were no sell-by dates on the produce we bought; yet we survived!
The human body is host to trillions of inhabitants, ‘plant & animal’ alike; without them we’d be extremely ill. They live inside our gut, helping us breaking down the food we eat killing off harmful germs that gain entry to our body. They coexist, and we live in harmony!
If we eradicate all the insects and micro-organisms (our allies), the world would be six feet deep in excrement. Other living things are mostly our friends, and not to be eradicated!
Everything dies, naturally, it is the order of things. Death is a blessed release from pain anguish & confusion, it is a gift from Gaia. Not to be spurned or feared, rather to be embraced as your reward for a life well lived…
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Len Morgan
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