How To Resist The Bark Beetles
Recently and again, in the low mountains surrounding Santa Fe,
New Mexico, I saw both beauty and devastation.
The "hills were alive" with both the colors of the Universe and
the death Bark Beetles bring to pinion pine. In some spots it
seemed that at least half the green scrub pine that used to bring
glory to the red earth hills are now dead and brown from beetle
infestation.
Some pesticides work, but with high cost and collateral damage.
Burning the dead wood spreads the beetle faster than by its own
devices, to say nothing of the risk of general forest fire. "What is
the answer, then," I asked a resident friend who worries about his
own trees. (This beetle is not limited to pine trees. Any tree will
serve its survival needs.) "Lots of rain to help trees regain their
own strong immune systems," was the answer my friend gave.
Resistance to an outside threat from the inside-out rather than
the outside-in is the best answer for any terrorist threat. But,
that is an unlikely, unfamiliar approach for us humans. We are more
ready to march with great strength on the enemy of any sort than to
first get ourselves in good shape by knowing self and tending to
self with lots of "rain".
Rain comes to meet our needs. Soak it up to stave off depletion
and in turn the "bark beetles" of your life. Meet your needs in all
ways first, then consider what, if anything, needs to be done about
the enemy out there for you to survive.
"It is easier to sail many thousands of miles through cold and
storm and cannibals, than it is to explore the private sea, the
Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being." quote from H.D.
Thoreau's journals
