Transportation

Something really interesting happened to me this morning. I was walking out of the building, and in the moment just before I opened the door, I felt something falling on my shoulder, sliding down rapidly and as I do my first step outside, I saw it landing on the floor. It was a very small lizzard, a little bit more than an inch. He rapidly moved into the fresh air and disappeared. That strange event made me smile - I felt I had been his vehicle from the inside of the building, to the outside, where he really belongs after all. As I continued my walk I thought that was exactly what I wanted to be : a vehicle for other people to get where they belong, where their real self can expand and blossom.

Think shrimp

I had a disorienting moment yesterday. I pulled out of the fridge the small tray with shrimp I had bought at the supermarket. USD 2.52. Very cheap, OK, a small tray, but still cheap. Then I played back in my mind my purchasing process. I was standing in front of the fish sector and comparing prices. These shrimp were cheaper and looked good, they were from Thailand. There were others (not sure from where) that were more expensive. I bought the Thai shrimp. But yesterday, as I looked at it, I said to myself - USD 2.52 -? REALLY?? What is the hidden ticket, the invoice that I am automatically charged, without even knowing how much it is or agreeing to it? Because these shrimp came all the way from Thailand. They were maintained frozen across the oceans, shipped and unloaded and re-packaged and distributed in the US - all thanks to fossil fuel. Which is making the CO2 layer thicker, the air warmer, retaining more polluting particles like in a mesh, which we breathe and try to cough out. It's warming the ocean which creates a different wind dynamics and we have more storms, my insurance costs raise, not to talk about real storm damage. We get droughts, forest fires, bacteria spread in the waters - what is the REAL invoice I'm being charged? I thought back, four decades, not more. Imported goods were a luxury, not a daily convenience. We seemed to be smarter those days, considering a luxury only for selected occasions, if bought at all. When did we lose that good judgement?