Bloomin' Amazing

When you stop to think about it, the world is a bloomin’ amazing place.

The basics:

• Dirt, sun, and water can grow all the food we need to sustain us. I can pick dinner from my own backyard if I have the foresight to prepare a home for plants and supplement what nature might not be regularly providing in my climate.
• Our bodies can not only heal themselves, but create new life. They are capable of this with little intervention from us.

 

Modern miracles:

• This isn’t rocket science—it’s been done for millennia—but we can move water to wherever we want or need it.
• Modern medicine has made commonplace what you can only consider a miracle if you truly consider its effect.

Today, my dad had surgery to remove an organ that had developed cancer cells. This is a major miracle. Perhaps a lesser miracle, but miraculous nonetheless, is the fact that I take medicine every day that allows me to breathe unrestricted as I head out to my garden to pick chard for my family’s dinner, despite the fact that it’s 103°. My kids love chard from the garden, not only a miracle considering the modern diet of most families, but they in themselves are walking, talking little marvels of nature and science—they were conceived through artificial insemination, but there’s certainly nothing artificial about their robust personalities and charming quirks.

These are the miracles that make up my days. Dad has made it through surgery okay, and is apparently talking (I learned this through the marvel of cell phones). The kids laugh and fight, wrestle and read. The cat and dog (our loyal and fearless companions for what seems time immemorial) lay belly-up to cool off. Lovebug brings home the… well, tofu, and we all keep spinning ‘round on this blue planet, in awe and wonder of where were are and where we’re headed next.