Good morning, everyone from Kansas City, Missouri. Our weather patterns over a span of time have been new to me since I have only lived here 3 years. But it is very unstable. Planting my first actual in-the-ground garden this Spring will be a bit of a challenge for sure.

SInce Open posted on Samadi, I have been rooted into that as well as various synchronicities that came my way. One was a book which I recommend reading. It came by way of a belated Christmas present from a dearly beloved soul, and I am just finishing it. Very timely. ''The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change.'', by E. Kirsten Peters, who herself is a geologist. Geology is not my field, but with the changing weather patterns and fear that penetrates deep into the cultures on Earth. Rather than skim off the top, so to speak, of climate change, she looks at the scientific data via rocks, tree rings glacier cores, and how that impacted the research up to and including the present day. I also sent this book to my former husband-now close friend who is an archeologist/geologist/anthropologist and who disclosed to me 2 years ago a conclusion he had come to use those 3 disciplines plus ancient literary texts and time periods. He concluded that the big culprit and the turning point of Earth's climate began with the onset of agriculture on the planet. And this is the conclusion Dr. Peters and others have also come to. Oddly enough technology, increase in the human population, and public policy have been the 3-legged stool on which to judge the climate changes we are and have been experiencing for millennium. To insert a small quote from the book...."In the final analysis, the most impressive point about Ruddiman's hypotheses isn't the idea that we may have been changing Earth's climate for millennia. What is most arresting, many people might observe, is how little attention it has garnered in the public square. Every day the media run stories of the link between industrialization and climate change. How is it, we can surely ask, that agriculture's plausible effect on climate is so routinely ignored.?''

And in another place,'' The unfortunate fact is that if we think the ''right'' carbon policy will produce a stable climate, we will always be defeated. Nothing about Earth's climate is static, and we cannot make it so. We would be well advised to go into the future with our eyes open, not shut, to the climates of the past. That is the plain teaching of the Scandinavian pollen and varves, the glacial tills of the Midwest, Glacial Lake Agassiz in Canada, and the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctic.''

I recommend this book, as it also dovetails into the impermanance taught in Buddhism, Hinduism, Openhand, and almost every spiritual practice on the planet. So along comes Open with his essay and video on Samadi, at the conclusion of which pop-up a cluster of other spiritual videos, not necessarily from Openhand, and one catches my eye...Samadi Part 1. At its conclusion pops up another in 4 part series, Inner Worlds. All fit together beautifully and powerfully for me. The answer to so many questions and concerns and strivings is always the same...go within. Search there, and you will find the answers by way of total surrender to what is. In going deeper with this, on Valentine's Day, the events in Florida happened...17 students and teachers dead and counting, students traumatized for life, the end of a quiet community forever. But perhaps also, finally, a beginning....long awaited, and carried forth by our millennial generation, who will have none of our generation's procrastinations.

Samadi....just in time.

Namaste