The Butterfly Effect

Of late I have become intrigued enough about Monarch Butterflies to plant milkweed.  This happened because I saw a post about their migration from the north to Mexico.  It was also a kind of topic for a couple of sermons I listened to.  But as most things go it can get complicated.

Butterflies really don't have long lifetimes.  They have adapted but it also seems that they may need help to continue "their adaptations".  In our urban environment "everything is happening at the same time".

In the middle of the night on the BBC overnight programming I listened to a long form discussion of "data centers and super computers".  

When Google was just trying to organize information and make it accessible I wasn't terrified, but those days are long gone.

The ironies of wars paid for on the societal credit cards, deals made to continue pumping oil so the price doesn't spike too much, cause the stock markets to crash, ....

Bea Hines, a long time columnist for the Miami Herald attended "a fishbowl dialogue" at Barry University and the topics were long time "Miami "fuddles".  “Housing, the environment, immigration, voting and belonging are not separate from daily lives."

And so early this morning I listened to David Jolly explain the reasons for his candidacy for the Governor of Florida.  I remember when he was a registered Republican and hope he continues to speak in a way that brings us closer together rather than dividing us.

We have a long way to go to repair ourselves.

I've lived in Miami for about fifty five years and my connection to this community has been my career in government, a UU Congregation I've attended since 1988, jogging, cold beers, "the U" and horse racing.

I'm looking at this post and the time on my laptop says 9:11 and along with that I could add Hurricane Andrew and  a few other close calls along with COVID 19 and broken hips.