The Wild World Outside

Never forget that the world outside is wild.  Turn off your electronics, unplug, and sit quietly by a window on a blustery evening.  Feel the wind shake the panes.  Hear it as it whistles around your home, around the homes near yours, around the carefully planted trees.  Hear how the rain wants to come inside.  Feel how it pounds relentlessly against the wood, brick, glass, metal and remember that without constant vigilance, it will get in.  The wild world and weather will eventually get in and tear your home apart.  The shingles will fail.  The wood will rot.  The masonry will crumble.  Your belongings will rot with repeated wetting, freezing, thawing, gnawing, dragging, blowing.  The traveling earth swirls the winds so you can feel the speed of the rotation and the revolution.  Your comforts will be rended by these winds, pulling apart all that you know.  Even the wild world outside is comforting and familiar when you expand your imagination to see how your world is also hurtling through the empty, airless, limitless space.