Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for January 16, 2020

I don’t know how long she’ll do that before she just throws us out.

She is throwing us out now. Slow cooker.

Trees like fertilizer. :)

All kids have to leave home sometime!

and it’s doing it without any of your help, Wiz!

She’s been abused, used and fired upon….

She covers up but doesn’t make tools of war safe. All over the world they find munitions from up to almost 100 years ago – some found and disposed of but some found the way they were meant to be used. Never turn your back on the past or Mother Earth. Both will strike you like a snake.

Funny thing is, I was just reading up on the old World War I trenches and the battlefields as they are now, 100 years later, where you can still see the craters from artillery fire, the unexploded ordnance, and where the trench lines were all those years ago… strange how these coincide like this (for me at least ;-) ).

expensive fertilizer

Coincidence strikes again. Last night I was kind of half asleep when a verse began trailing across my mind. As with most half-dreams, I could only remember the first line. It went: I am here as I have been since the third day. Finally traced the image to Genesis 1:13. Truly wish I could recall the lines that followed. But that’s regrettably human. We are often given glimpses of things we should value, but can’t take further.

Well there’s the best argument against climate action. Mom doesn’t really care if we survive.What have we done to the Earth? What have done to our fair sister? Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn.

Mother earth has been cleaning up after species who were top dog for a very long time. People are only about 200,000 years old, an eye blink for a planet as old as the earth. If we wipe our selves out, she has plenty of time to clean up the mess, rest a bit, then start again. Life is the goal, it doesn’t have to be human.

if you look at some battle fields from WW1 today the ground even covered with trees and plans is still misshapen from shelling

She’s a tad slow though.. we want / demand.. immediate cleanup.

And scolding us in the process….

Wars weren’t so bad in the Middle Ages. Not nearly as many people were killed and the weapons didn’t keep killing and/or maiming people after the war as many do nowadays. In those innocent times, plagues were much worse than wars. That said, War was still one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

She’s getting really frustrated with it since she can’t keep up. She’s on the verge out sweeping us up with the rest of the trash and starting over again.

At Verdun there is still a field with grass-covered divots like this, from a war over a hundred years old…

Don’t worry about Mother Nature, she is cooking up new diseases and plagues to rid herself of us as we speak. The surviving cockroaches will appreciate out abandoned building for years to come!

But what is Father Sky still doing after all these years?

A whole field of red ferns…

How many years does it take for Mother Earth to dissolve diapers, styrofoam and cigarette butts?